I'm only just starting to feel like I'm recovered from that weekend, I had about 4 hours sleep on Friday night and the same again on Saturday. This BarCamp was probably about 3 times the size of the last one, the venue was impressive, they had a proper little auditorium. There still wasn't anywhere very comfy to sleep, although I think I found the best spot (the only sofa in the building!) next time I'm going to pack some sort of inflatable bed.

This time round the presentations had a different feel, it seemed that the more seasoned speakers were dominating, but that was probably just because I was attending talks by names I recognised! Also with it being much bigger it lost the feeling of intimacy. It was still a great event though, big respects to Ian and the other organisers, and BT really put a lot into it too (nice pizza and way more beer than 200 geeks could drink!)

I've been thinking about trying to kick one off up north since last time, but I've heard that the guys from GeekUp are working on that already. So instead I'm planning to try and gather together some people from the Liverpool area, all the folk that can't make it into Manchester very easily. I'll write up a bit more in another post shortly.

Labels: barcamp, barcamplondon2

I've made a start on my presentation, I've got a few notes but there still isn't a presentation there. I seem to have a habit of picking topics that I don't know all that much about, mainly because they're the ones that interest me! So then I have to do masses of research so I can fill 30 mins talking about it. This time I've gone for development on windows mobile with .NET, which I got into about 2 months ago when I wrote my PocketGCal app. Which is still the only mobile application I've written that really does anything. The great thing about using the .NET Compact Framework though is it's so similar to the desktop version (only more compact, obviously). So I'm going to look at it from that angle, and since I know there's not a whole lot of .NET lovin' amongst the BarCamp folks I'm going try to keep out of the techie stuff, focus a bit on the cool things you can do with it. I just hope Sarah Blow doesn't decide to watch.

Labels: barcamplondon, barcamplondon2, mobile, windows mobile