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BarCampPhilly was a success!!

The BarCamp happened yesterday and Philly's brightest and most enthusiastic 'interative media' professionals came out in force.  Barcamp is a type of grass roots conference setup by the people bottom up rather then by a company top down.

I talked a lot, learned a lot, drank a lot and made some friends in the process.

Each session exceeded my expectations in different ways.  My talk on the how we build and operate http://www.comcast.net was very well received and it was very telling to step up from the weeds and view this creation with my peers.  As much as we need to move forward sometimes we at CIM forget how far we have come.  Since this was an untelevised, ego and marketecture free event we openly discussed what we did right and wrong. Having this talk with people that live through this grind every day is very different then having it with people that learned the 'right way to build websites' from books or blogs.

"Don't hire legacy developers, kill legacy systems"

--My quote of the session

You guys really work hard, Comcast should hire more developers.

--Audience quote of the session