BarCampRochester3
Yesterday I was fortunate enough to be able to attend BarCamp3 here at RIT. While I really do want to write a lot about how it went, I didn’t exactly take great notes. Here are the few things I really want to say:
jQuery is cool. Sure, I know everyone else already knew this, but now I am a believer. John Resig gave a nice presentation just demonstrating the basics of the library, and I was sold. I have already started working with it for my XML Transformation class’ web projects.
Discussion is cool. One of the best parts of BarCamp is just meeting up with a bunch of intelligent people, and having chats. My presentation time was used doing just that. I put up the topic of “Social Implications of Technology” and I got about 10 participants, ranging from college age to much older, and the discussion was GREAT. The chat bounced around a few central ideas, which included communication etiquette, hyperconnection, and personalized expectation of behavior. Really interesting stuff.
Meeting people is cool. I met a lot of people yesterday, and even got some business cards to maintain professional contact. Very exciting stuff. Of course, now I have an incredible urge to build my own personal brand so I can make personal business cards. We’ll see if that happens any time soon.
All in all, it was a very long day, but it was a lot of fun. Thanks to the organizers, and I look forward to attending next year.
April 7th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
JQuery is awesome. I wish I could shake Mr. Resig’s hand and tell him so in person. How come none of this stuff was happening when I was at RIT? Enjoy it man, sounds like there’s some great stuff happening at the university nowadays.