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BarCampBlock: Session notes roundup

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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 [...]

BarCampBlock: Review roundup

Lots of other people are talking about BarCampBlock. Here’s a link roundup. I’ll add to it as more stuff becomes available.

Jordan Sissel:

After two days of meeting new friends, catching up with others, a blitz of demos, piles of sessions, food, and drink, I’m pretty beat. As Tara put it in [...]

BarCampBlock: The Grid

BarCampBlock, like all BarCamps, is an unconference. That means there’s no set schedule, and that participants collaboratively come up with one on the first morning of the event.

I found myself a good position and took photos of “the grid” every so often over the weekend. The first photo is from about 9am [...]

Why is programming hard?

I’m at BarCampBlock sitting in a session by Kragen Sitaker on “Why is programming hard?” We’re mostly just going round the group and trying to come up with a list of answers to that question.

Photo by Beatrice Murch

Here’s some of what’s on the board:

Gulf of evaluation Gulf of execution Impatience (but not the Larry Wall [...]

At BlockCamp

I’m at BarCampBlock in Palo Alto, and things are just about to kick off. More coverage to follow!