I’m feeling somewhat human again after having caught up on some sleep back at home after 4 days in Auckland at Tech Ed New Zealand .

Thanks again to those who came to our session (DBI207 - Trade Me: 0-70 million pages in 0.34 Gigaseconds ) - and specially to those who took the time to leave feedback.  Overall we got a good response, with the only gripe being that it wasn’t technical enough.  Probably a fair enough observation.

It was classified as a level 200, but that was set before we actually knew exactly what we were going to present on - so in hind sight level 100 might’ve been more accurate. I also spent a little longer on some of the preamble than I wanted to, which meant the more technical stuff had to be rushed a little. This is something that will improve with speaking experience I think.  So, if you didn’t get what you wanted from it, I apologise, but I’m keen to do a technical session at a later date so keep an eye out for that at a conference or user group near you. :-)

Simon, another work colleague, also presented a session (WUX207 - Releasing Trade Me’s Latest Project ) which was awesome. My excuse is that he’s spent a fair amount of time on-stage in a past life doing improv. :-p  Needless to say there was some healthy competition between Matt & I, and Simon as far as feedback scores were concerned.  He won…

The rest of the conference seemed to go pretty well - congrats to those involved in organising it.  I didn’t get to see as many sessions as I wanted to, but enjoyed the few I did attend, and heard mostly positive feedback from the other guys from work who attended.

Here are all the recorded sessions from this year, including our session , and Simon’s .

So, the next thing on my calendar is PASS Summit in Seattle in October. Super excited! Never been to the US before, and can’t wait to attend pre-cons and sessions presented by folks who I’m sure will explode my brain . I’ve signed up as a “first timer” (my “big brother” is Craig Purnell ), and I’ll probably also be up for the Monday night dinner at Lowell’s , so might see you there!

Cheers, DB Dave