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Wednesday, March 04, 2009

DrupalCon DC - Day 1, pt 1

What's going on so far:
* 9-10 am - Made it into DrupalCon about 9am without hassle--whew!
T-shirt acquisition, doing my best to hide my tag so people don't see
my fake name. I miss the Gentle Intro to Drupal Code--too bad

* 10-10.30 am - telecon, miss beginning of keynote

* 10.30-11.15 am - catch part of Dries' keynote. Not a terribly
dynamic speaker, but funny, geeky and earnest. OV of new Drupal.org
site cool as are the stats at how quickly Drupal has grown.
Interesting to compare this keynote/conference with the Marc Benioff
show that (salesforce.com user conference) Dreamforce.

* 11.30-12 - first part of Apache SOLR search presentation. Can
definitely see how this could be a huge improvement for us. Cool
stuff: Faceted search (Filter results by); Spelling suggestion ('Did
you mean?'); control weighting based on criteria (eg, items with most
comments or with newest date go to top)

* 12-12.15 - went to part of 'Limitations of Drupal Theming Layer'.
Young Hahn is great, but this is too techical for me. Moving on...

* 12.15-12.30 - hear last bit of 'Drupal in Newsroom'. Hope my
colleagues got more from this than I did

* 12.30-1 - herding cats for lunch--total waste of time (TWOT)

* 1-1.30 - Chipotle!

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