Thursday’s GeekDinner was enjoyable, and as always, some of the best conversation happened outside of the official talks. It was also great to see quite a few new faces, and a growing (although this may just have been the subset I encountered) Ruby presence.<\/p>\n
Some of the more regular event bloggers weren’t there (Neil<\/a> and Marius<\/a> for example), and, being disconnected at home these days, nad having had a manic few work days since, I’m very late with this post, so the blogosphere’s reaction to the event has seemed quieter than usual.<\/p>\n Planet GeekDinner<\/a> will point you to better and more complete summaries, but here’s my belated input.<\/p>\n Most of the talks were enjoyable (and I enjoyed giving mine, about my experiences of writing a technical book), though I particularly enjoyed Aslam Khan’s talk<\/a>. rbehave<\/em> is going to linger a long time in geek lingo.<\/p>\n It would really help though if the speakers limit the length. The talks are supposed to be 5 minutes, but most of them drifted (well) overtime.<\/p>\n The event started late, and with the lengthy talks and the week-night, most people left quite soon after the talks were finished, with not as much socialising afterwards as usual.<\/p>\n I’d also like to encourage more people to speak, as almost everyone attending should be able to entertainingly fill a measly 5 minutes. After all, some can entertainingly hold the table’s attention for at least 10 minutes!<\/p>\n Thanks<\/a> to all the organisers and sponsors – see you all at the next one. And for the few who don’t already know, there’s a Facebook GeekDinner group<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n Related posts:<\/p>\n Tags: geekdinner<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thursday’s GeekDinner was enjoyable, and as always, some of the best conversation happened outside of the official talks. It was also great to see quite a few new faces, and a growing (although this may just have been the subset I encountered) Ruby presence. Some of the more regular event bloggers weren’t there (Neil and… Continue reading July 2007 GeekDinner<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fire-social","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n