http://dave.srednal.com Dave's thoughts (such as they are) Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:42:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Our Order of the Arrow lodge had its annual Winter Festival weekend and banquet this past weekend. I was head cook, and we prepared 5 meals for about 100 people (mostly hungry teenaged boys). It was a success, and the cook crew had loads of fun. While we were ... http://dave.srednal.com/archives/64 I just got back from a fun overnight with my son Paul and his friend Nick. Around Christmas, Paul decided we needed to do a "Cross Country Ski / Backpacking" overnighter. We had planned to go last week while I was on vacation, but we decided to wait ... http://dave.srednal.com/archives/63 It has been a great week - I've now got a lot of things to dig into more. There were things I learned directly from the sessions, and other stuff that I picked up outside the sessions themselves. I need to try out Virtual Box to host Linux on my Mac. I ... http://dave.srednal.com/archives/58 In past years, at the Colorado Software Summit, we have taken up a collection and given some sort of "surprise" gift to the organizers: Wayne and Peggy. We're going to do something different this year. We recently lost one of our "family" - our dear friend dIon Gillard. This ... http://dave.srednal.com/archives/57 More good sessions today, but the best was from my friend Subbu, who talked on Pragmatic REST. Subbu gave a really great overview of REST - what is it, and how do you do it. This is especially going to help me as I am just starting a project to ... http://dave.srednal.com/archives/56 I enjoyed day one of Software Summit, now we're on to day two. Yesterday, I attended several sessions. Highlights for me included Bryan Basham's Becoming a JavaScript Wizard and Simon Roberts' What OO Doesn't Address I don't actually do much JavaScript - I spend most of my time doing server-side stuff. ... http://dave.srednal.com/archives/55 It's now Monday morning at Keystone, and I'm looking forward to a good week of learning and catching up with old and new friends. For those of you who are unable to be here this year, here is the annual obligatory picture of "the goods". The coolest thing this year is how ... http://dave.srednal.com/archives/54 I have created a twitter group and an associated pair of bots for use during this year's Colorado Software Summit. Listening to @swsmt The twitter group is @swsmt. If you use twitter, and want to follow tweets about the conference, then just follow @swsmt. A few minutes later, you should also see ... http://dave.srednal.com/archives/51 The 3-each-session scheduling at Colorado Software Summit pays off again. I looked at the schedule, and picked (based on content) the sessions I pretty much want to see this year. I ended up with 18. There are only 20 time blocks. But because of the way they do the scheduling, ... http://dave.srednal.com/archives/50 The full, detailed, daily schedule for Colorado Software Summit has just been posted. If you are not familiar with the conference, you should take a look. One look at the full schedule and you will see that (like every year), they've got some world-class developers talking about some hot topics ... http://dave.srednal.com/archives/49