Back from BarCamp

Last weekend was fantastic, I went to Barcamp which was being hold in Coimbra and organized by WeBreakStuff and I had a really great time.

As one can see from the wiki page, there were several presentations with topics ranging from web 2.0 to the music industry and overall they were very good, some of them were improvised but that’s the spirit of Barcamp, everyone can participate and because of this there were also great discussions and brainstormings.

I also met alot of people coming from diferent backgrounds of mine and had diferent experiences, as I predicted it was great discussing having talks with all the diferent participants, I learned alot and brought fresh ideas home.

I had a planned presentation about my overall experience in Rails and my adventures building weSpendMoney from the ground up, I hope my tips, advices and mistakes inspired the people who attended.

Speaking of weSpendMoney, the development is going well, I came back from the conference with big ideas, advices and in overall a fantastic support from everyone. I should update the site soon regarding these. In the meantime you can see the presentation slides in PowerPoint format (aww!) here.

I’m also updating my site, correcting some stupid design flaws I made and getting my blogroll up and running, if I missed anyone please send me an e-mail or use the contact form.

[update 1]: Pedro Custódio made a nice overview of what happened at Barcamp on his blog – Centopeia - and Planet Barcamp pt has much more info from everyone who attended and has a blog. Worth checking out, oh, almost forgot, pictures are up. thanks guys!