At the con! Wednesday afternoon and Thursday...

Wednesday

• OK, so handling async data with Josh Koenig was nice, I left wishing I had attended the JQuery with Dmitri Gaskin. Fortunately I was able to download that a few minutes ago!
• Burned out mentally for a good chunk of the afternoon so found a quiet spot to get some things working on my machine post a blog and mentally move on
• Attended the "Boosting our capacity to provide drupal training". OK, but I left discouraged and disappointed. Probably not the presenters fault - they had some good things to say. Really, is there some reason why the approach to training materials should not be open source too (see wikipedia, etc.)? Felt like a couple of questioners in the audience had their own agenda. Sorry, but certification track = bad idea. And rigid classification of "types of users" to train also = bad idea.

Thursday (yeah!)

• BOF session with John Albin. Not bad. Like the smaller format myself. Looking forward to more theme track on Friday. Sweet handout - thanks!
• Paradigm for reusable features (Context/Spaces modules) by the dev seed folks. Really nice ideas! So good I attended the breakout session after lunch. In the breakout session I definitely left feeling like spaces has a ways to go, but still - fantastic stuff.
• So Thursday is turning into features, deployment and management day for me. Next up was the patterns module presentation. I don't think I was the only one who thought trying to build feature deployment on the back of FAPI/drupal execute was maybe not a great idea. And too many demos failed - sorry folks.
• Aegir followed by Drush. Yeah! Fantastic stuff. Hope someday I have a reason to use it = nice problem to have.
• :) for Thursday

Hey to my new friends Alan, Sumit, and Shino.
Looks like Friday will be Theming day, but who knows...
Chapter 3 - thanks for the party. Years since I played pool (a bit embarrassing that I forgot the rules).