Blogging Roller

I arrived at ApacheCon yesterday (Saturday) on a beautiful San Diego day, clear skies mild weather. I took a couple of pictures and posted them on Flickr for kids back home. Of course, the sunshine didn't stop me from marching right down to the basement for the hackathon, where I met Henri Yandell for the first time and ran into most of the same characters I'd encountered at last years's hackaton. I didn't stay late last night because I picked up a cold. Instead, I decided to sleep (for 10 hours!). After coffee, advil, sudafed and a long walk down the cruise ship docks this morning, I'm back and feeling much better.

Despite the beer, pizza, comfy couches and dinners that keep on rolling into the room, the hackathon is not just a social event. People have work to do and seem to be able to go heads-down and focus on getting things done. For example, today I'm sitting at the Geronimo table with Bruce Synder, David Jencks and others, where they're working to finish the Geronimo 1.0 release before the actual conference begins. I've got a little work to do today as well. My goal for the day is prepare the first Blogapps release, get ready for my talk tomorrow and help out with the extra beer problem. More later...

Tags: topic:{technorati}[ApacheCon], topic:{technorati}[ApacheCon2005]