Midnight Oil

Following Ryan’s experiences at Barcamp San Diego, I’ve decided to attend and (hopefully) present at Barcamp Atlanta. If I get the chance, I will be doing a presentation on custom Google Maps using S3. I will center on Ruby on Rails, of course, but most of the idea is language agnostic.

I’m hoping to use BarCamp as an opportunity to network with other Atlanta area entrepreneurs and hackers. I’ve got a lot of ideas and the skills to execute them, but I’m looking for people that are better than me in the marketing department. If you’re the kind of person who can sell water to a fish, then look me up at BarCamp!

Here’s a picture of me, looking as I probably will at the conference (lost and confused). Please don’t be shy, just come up and introduce yourself.

BarCamp San Diego (barcampsd) is finally over. It was awesome! I still haven’t caught up on my sleep. There were so many great presentations. Unfortunately being an organizer of the event I missed quite a few of them. We’re currently working on encoding the audio that was recording as well as syncing it with the video and encoding the video and we hope to have it up on the BarCamp San Diego Wiki this week. Planning for BarCamp San Diego 2 has already begun.

I gave essentially two presentations in one. I’ve uploaded the slides here so you can view them both. Up and Running with Ruby on Rails on Windows and Building an Ajax CSS Star Rating System using Ruby on Rails.

My Presentations
Up and Running with Ruby on Rails on Windows
Building an Ajax CSS Star Rating System using Ruby on Rails

What to know what you missed out on?
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=barcampsd&w=all
http://www.technorati.com/posts/tag/barcampsd

Here’s a few of pictures for you:

Opening Session

Alex’s Presentation on Beyond Tag Clouds

Make your own BarCamp San Diego T-Shirts

My Presentation

Yes, there was actual camping (indoors) at BarCamp San Diego

No Cup Required!

Tomorrow is Barcamp San Diego! It’s taken about a months worth of planning to get ready for tomorrow’s event and thanks to sponsors that we’ve lined out it’s going to be awesome.

We’ve had almost 70+ people sign up so far and we’re expecting around 100+ people to show. Not to mention it’s been brought to my attention that we’ve been listed on Boing Boing as you can see below:

BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from participants. The name BarCamp was inspired as a complement to FooCamp. FooCamp is the annual invitation only, no-structure, no plan, tent on the lawns, hacker event hosted by publisher Tim O’Reilly.

Two videos capture the essence of BarCamp. Take a look at video summaries from BarCamp SF and BarCamp Austin

Let the partying begin!