Neil Phillips’ blog

So.. Barcamp Sydney was a great day, hosted at the Australian Technology Park. The unorganisers did a tremendous job, and in true barcamp style the eclectic crowd were very entertained, and entertaining.
A few personal highlights:

Google Wave introduction by Alex from the local dev team - great to get first hand insights
A great introduction to #Gov2AU, [...]

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 [...]