Been one of the less-than-überachieving weeks. And that’s shown here in the blog as well. Just haven’t been able to summon the energy to write anything sensible.
Attended the first scandinavian Ignite-session on friday. Ignite is an O’Reilly-initiated variant of pecha kucha, a session where presenters have five minutes, and a steady tick of a slide per fifteen seconds. Nothing more, nothing less. Rather merciless, if you forget what the segue to the next slide is supposed to be.
The occasion was organized in Dubrovnik lounge and the location turned out to be pretty good. There were very few empty seats and no massive crowds milling around the door being denied entry.
Got in ten minutes after the kickoff, just in time to see the warm-up act, a fifteen minute bout of standup-comedy. The set consisted of nicely self-deprecating humor that drew heavily from the artists finnish-swedish background.
The seven presentations were of variable quality - both technically and topically. Some showed the highlights of Keynote’s abilities, some relied on plain text. The subjects ranged nicely from car tuning for geeks to entrepreneurial collaboration via a rapid-fire introduction to the agile software development method.
The next show is planned for late spring, and having been reasonably pleased with this session, plan to attend.
