Summary of my BarCamp expierence
I had a great weekend up in Palo Alto and San Fransisco this weekend. Got to meet a lot of really nice and smart people at BarCamp which was a great experience. You can't find a nicer group of people all trying to learn and help each other out.

Saturday I flew into San Jose and went straight BarCamp in Palo Alto. After wandering the streets of Palo Alto for a bit trying to get my bearings, I finally found another attendee, Adam Gottesfeld from Palomar Ventures. The green name badges everyone wore really helped to identify who was a part of BarCamp.

After all of the sessions for the day there was a party at the Blue Chalk Cafe where everyone was getting free drinks. They were also doing lightning round presentations of web applications on a big screen that people there were working on. It's always interesting to see the kinds of things the developers there are building.




I ended up staying the night at the Social Texts offices working on some development stuff and trying out Selenium, a web UI testing application. A couple of other guys were there as well working on stuff. One guy, Action Merchant, was building the Zoo Facebook application.

Sunday the sessions were longer and I attended two of the Facebook application sessions which were good. The last couple posts contain the notes from those sessions. I think those two sessions had the most people of any of the sessions that I attended of both days. There is a lot of interest in what people can do with Facebook apps and still remains a lot of confusion about how they'll actually fit into the business environment.  ¶ 4:50 PM