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.