Day One - more impressions
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- The talks I've attended so far have been well worthwhile, but also the time between the sessions are useful. In the beginning I was hesitant to approach people, especially the 'rock stars', but every time I finally did the response was very friendly and helpful and eventhough I still hardly know anybody here (and so do probably most others here, as well!) I've definitely gained the feeling of belonging here and being a part of it all.
- I met Florian Schulz and he explained to me the workings of the new Ressource Registry and I had a very con- and instructive chat with Geir Bækholt (author of LinguaPlone) and will now finally move ahead and make my own site multilingual using his advice.
- Joel Burton's talk on Best Practices was very concise and practical, I was, however surprised at how much of the stuff I already knew and practiced myself until it hit me: Andi had just visited last year's Plone Conference just prior to him and I collaborating on the DirecType site during which he had infused me with those very practices. Looking back from this perspective I'm really impressed with how Andi picked this stuff up so fast and passed it on - at the time I had the impression that he had been doing it like that for years ;-) The one thing from Burt's talk that was new to me and might prove really useful was his plug for WingIDE as a debugging tool. I'm downloading the free trial, as I'm writing this and will report back once I've taken it for a spin.
- The Apple Hardware percentage here is really remarkable. The best thing about it (to me) is that the Mac users here are usually not the typical Mac User but in most cases (so I assume) converted Linux users and it's quite refreshing to see Macs being used in a UNIX way rather than just as a Web-, Office- and Graphicsplatform.
- The venue is really cool. And since only two of the four floors are actually used by the conference I was able to take a much needed nap on one of the top floors - I actually slept deeply for a full thirty minutes ;-)
- I have yet to meet an impolite Viennese.
- If you leave the (new) default behaviour of Plone 2.1 to not enabling editing of short names off it will rename the (initially cryptic) short name to a websafe version of the object's Title - neat! (This makes especially for very "pretty" multilingual URLs).
- Lunch, snacks and drinks are included in the conference fee - including Almdudler (some sort of herbal lemonade) and (from 5 pm onwards) beer from tap.
ploneconf
HI
I wish I would be there ;)
Could you perhaps make a extra site with all the tipps and tricks of the "rock stars"? ;)
Have a nice trip
Dominik