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Posted by liammclennan on May 11, 2009

JAOO is a great tech conference that we are lucky to have in Brisbane. Here are my thoughts from day 1 (in reverse chronological order).

@drnic's talk was good. Disappointing turnout. Great information in an erratic but entertaining style. #jaooless than 10 seconds ago from TweetDeck

"Cucumber is awesome... picks up the ladies... or the men if your into that" @drnic #jaoo21 minutes ago from TweetDeck

@drnic presenting some creative integration testing techniques. #jaoo30 minutes ago from TweetDeck

@tgeros apparently there is an arms race MS/Google/Apple/Firefoxabout 1 hour ago from TweetDeck in reply to tgeros

@drnic redefines "1st person" to "the I perspective" #jaooabout 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

@drnic redefines "1st person" to "the I perspective"about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

hard to choose between Dave Thomas's Cloud talk and Patrick Linskey's enterprise data access talk. #jaooabout 2 hours ago from TweetDeck

Dave Thomas says performance doesn't matter, because the bottleneck is DB, out-of-process calls etc #jaooabout 3 hours ago from TweetDeck

heckling going on at #jaoo. How fast is fast enough?about 3 hours ago from TweetDeck

@avibryant's talk gives me hope about javascript performance. #jaooabout 3 hours ago from TweetDeck

@avibryant's talk gives me hope about javascript performance.about 3 hours ago from TweetDeck

#duckporn @ #jaooabout 3 hours ago from TweetDeck

"Ruby is slow" @avibryant #jaoo Ruby should go faster, ruby can go fasterabout 3 hours ago from TweetDeck

Signing up for a preview of @avibryant's new product. #jaooabout 3 hours ago from TweetDeck

Enjoyed Avi Bryant's talk about creating a new web application. #jaooabout 3 hours ago from TweetDeck

Coffee @ #jaoo is has quality but not quantity.about 5 hours ago from TweetDeck

Waiting for @avibryant's talk about building a new app. Hope it is not a sales pitch. #jaooabout 5 hours ago from TweetDeck

@mtnygard "Purge data through the application" "Cycle logs based on size"about 6 hours ago from TweetDeck

@mtnygard "Retries are bad for user... Retries are bad for systems" #jaooabout 6 hours ago from TweetDeck

@tathamoddie I have 450D and I find it too large for travel. Especially if you dont want to check baggage.about 6 hours ago from TweetDeck in reply to tathamoddie

M. Nygard's talk on operations problems is mostly covering issues I wish I had. Very interesting. #jaooabout 6 hours ago from TweetDeck

JAOO Brisbane - Day 2Today was the second and final day of JAOO. Once again, the quality was excellent. Here are my notes...How to Become a Web Development FreelancerI mentioned somewhere that I am a freelancer and I got this email: I am looking at getting into fre...Thoughts on webaii functional / web testing frameworkWebAii is a proprietary, but free, functional testing framework from ArtOFTest. It has become more v...

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