Barcamp Atlanta
Barcamp is coming up again October 17th - 18th. Check the website for additional information or to signup. The first one was a blast and I am very much looking forward to doing it again. Barcamp is ~24 hours of discussion, interesting conversation, learning about all kinds of cool projects, drinking beer (optional), and just having a good time.
I remember last year a big production bug came up around 11pm and I spent the 11pm - 6am hours fixing it but even with that it was a good time.
My goal now is to figure out something more interesting for a session this time around. Tried to do PostgreSQL tuning/admin last time and had all of 2 or 3 people show up for any portion. Perhaps something on Scala, am becoming a pretty huge fan of that language.
Mark Luffel said,
August 29, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Oh man, I remember you sitting there debugging some gnarly Postgres/importer something or other all night
I’d definitely go to a Scala tutorial, have you used Lift at all? The web is such a common denominator at Barcamp, and doing something web related might be interesting to a bunch of people.
Have you guys explored writing controllers, etc in Scala? Some of the pragmatic issues with Scala/Java integration, like tutorials for building a mixed-language project would be cool too.
gtuhl said,
August 30, 2008 at 12:37 am
I haven’t used Lift but have been meaning to. Using Scala a lot now for tools, scripts, glue code, etc but haven’t made an end-to-end project with it and that would be a good exercise.
James said,
September 18, 2008 at 8:02 pm
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