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After about 3 hours sleep I caught Kathy Sierra's talk about creating passionate users. I was really impressed, and enjoyed her keynote a lot. It was the best keynote I saw during the conference.

After a morning tea break I caught a talk about using mathematical logic to prove computational problems. Half way though I wondered to myself why I was there; it wasn't my cup of tea, even though the content wasn't too heavy.

A break for lunch and then we were back into it, rounding out the afternoon was a talk on testing and a talk on what people are doing wrong in general. The last one was interesting and funny, but wasn't earth shattering. The testing one was spent getting valgrind to work on our test servers so we can profile some PHP applications :)

The closing ceremony was somewhat dragged out and a flood of nerds headed back to the dorms to get ready for the Penguin Dinner (the conference's formal-ish event). None of us wanted to go so we hit Churchill's again for some pool and dinner. Hale took off to see some mates and after the cricket wrapped up Adam and I came home. I finished packing my gear, ready to leave early Saturday morning, at which point I'll meet Mags as the airport and we'll head to the Gold Coast for a week!

Today was all about tutorials. Rasmus Lerdorf gave his talk about PHP 5 which was really interesting and highly applicable to what we do with work. He focussed on Web 2.0 and what it really means, PHP 5 features (specifically XML consumption), performance and tuning and finished up with some security points.

Next up Chris Blizzard gave us a walkthrough the Sugar interface used on the One Laptop Per Child programme. The question and answer session at the end was insightful, and Jim Gettys had a lot of input that the audience found helpful. Although I have my reservations about how useful a laptop will be to a kid that doesn't have 3-square meals a day, I have complete faith that the right technical people are on the job.

Lunch was a delicious you-make-it sandwich followed up by a lie-down on the grass and this pseudo-blogging - we don't have 'net access out here.

After lunch we listened to Malcolm Tredinnick discuss Django, a Python web framework. After having used Rails over the last few months I was not impressed at all with what Django offers, but I'm glad I now know that.

I went to BJJ at Sinosic-Perosh Martial Arts in Concord, about a 30 minute train ride from the city. Elvis Sinosic took the class and it was great having a different teacher highlight different aspects of the sport. Elvis was a champ; really easy to get along with, and his club is friendly and competitive. I did well, scoring a few taps on higher ranked belts, so I was happy.

The boys and I hit Men's Gallery for about two hours and sampled Sydney's finest strip club. Whatever. There was one hot chick, a few OK girls and some very average ones. Not a patch on the 'Rhino, but boobs none-the-less.

Wednesday morning started with Andrew Tanenbaum delivering a talk about building a reliable operating system. It was cool having Linus introduce him on stage. In the past they've not seen eye to eye on a lot of things ;)

All three of us went to see a talk by two kiwi's about Albatross: their unmanned autonomous vehicle project. In this case it's a model airplane that flies itself. They're planning a trans-Tasman crossing from Australia to New Zealand, which will beat the world record if they're successful. A very cool talk.

Andrew Tridgell talked about tdb, the database backend that powers Samba, and the difficulties they're faced making it scale across a cluster. I think he's a good presenter, and I always enjoy his talks, even though in this case it wasn't specifically interesting to me.

After lunch Jon Oxer showed us how he uses PHP, Python and Perl to glue together other applications that send a receive data across a serial port. He has switches connected to lights, gates and letter boxes and does some interesting things like send an SMS when he gets a letter delivered.

We bailed on the afternoon and went into the city for dinner and a wander. My first early night was had and I'm feeling better for it now ;)