Neil Phillips’ blog

I’d not been to barcamp before - here’s a rundown!

@voirol delivered an impassioned case for custom CMS development (as in completely proprietary) - which seems vaguely compelling for a small organisation, but scary in terms of TCO and maintainablity. He made a fine point on throwawayability, and the benefits of ‘do just what it needs to do’.

@pamelafox introduced the google appengine, a kind of platform as a service currently for python, which looks altogether very nifty.

@chieftech on enterprise 2.0 reconfirms my thinking that.. there really isn’t any yet.

@maymaym great intro into practical semanticness-really first class stuff. Talked about oomph, microformats, icalness.

random (in a good way) conversation about community management from Scott

@spellrus - interesting techcrunch sanfran intro, and a really interesting idea on how to quality assure content on websites

intro into xblui which went a little over by head.

weird off topic ‘mind hacking’ thing - not entirely sure it hit the barcamp mandate. And @http://headwellred running the session seems over aggressive and controlling of her victim (@nickgonios) in the audience.

@pamelafox reminds us about HTML5, which now does some really useful things - better canvas stuff, form elements (like datepicker, slide, flex style data sets) and better form validation too.

Completely inconclusive conversation on Android.

The man Burch gave a helpful prod into using eLance.com - am persuaded to get my Symbian app developed at last.

Annoyed I missed the first bits of the dataportability discussion from @liakos and others - mainly because I had no idea from the title what the topic was.

Thanks for to the sponsors, who know who they are. Also big thanks for the unorganisers. Now.. to beers.