BarCampBlock: Session notes roundup

A number of people have been blogging about sessions at BarCampBlock. There are plenty of session notes on the wiki, but I thought I’d link a few of the people who are posting about specific sessions they attended or ran.

I blogged two myself:

Why is Programming Hard? with Kragen Sitaker:

> Here’s some of what’s on the board:
>
> * Gulf of evaluation
> * Gulf of execution
> * Impatience (but not the Larry Wall kind, just the frustrating kind.)
> * Too much crap to keep in your head
> * Leaky abstractions
> * Lack of flow
> * Yak shaving
> * We’re solving hard problems

Geek 2 Geek Communications with Michael Schwern:

> At OSCON they had a “people” track and Schwern wasn’t the only one talking about this. Lots of people are realising there’s a communication problem but don’t know how to deal with it.
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> Well, says Schwern, we’re smart and analytical. If we can find out what the problem is, we can try and figure out what it is and how to fix it. So for now, let’s try and identify the anti-patterns in geek communication.

Social Media Design Patterns by Christian Crumlish @ Yahoo:

CSS Futures:

> It sounds like CSS 3 as The Big Unit is basically dead, and small modules are the way forward. We should see good support for CSS 3 selectors, media queries, and who knows what else. Hopefully that new layout manager!

Functional web testing with Selenium IDE with Nelson Carpentier. Slides available in OpenOffice format.

Opening the Social Graph with Brad Fitzpatrick, Tantek Celik, and others:

> But the social graph has a problem. Fitz explains it simply:
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> “People are getting sick of registering and re-declaring their friends on every site”
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> But what if you want to be friends with someone on Twitter, but not on Pownce? Some companies have developed wonderful social graphs (Facebook) with huge audiences (MySpace), but there is no way to port that data across multiple networks, or ensure that the data is secure.

Got any others? Link me up!