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Barcamp Melbourne 2008

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On Saturday I flew to Melbourne to attend Barcamp.

Very different to the Sydney Barcamp: more FOSS people, more code.

Managed to score a 5 minute slot near the end of the day. After a long day of PHP, eee PCs, Open XML and other depthful things – and being the last official presenter before beer-o-clock (kindly sponsored by Microsoft) there was a distinct lack of lulz. Time for – LOLCODE!

When asked if the next revision of Windows is based on LOLCODE, I had to sadly admit the answer is no. However, future Windows: who knows?

Now, LOLZ aside: Working for Microsoft

After this excellent and funny video, many former work mates ask me what its like to work for Microsoft. The chutzpah to take time to make a video like this is in itself a testament to the cultural state of Microsoft. Well, some parts at least.

Rory Blyth, formerly of the Channel 9 team, writes what it’s like working for Jeff Sandquist.

Sadly, I don’t work directly for Jeff, but do contribute to some of his sites. Rory is 100% correct about this particular part of Microsoft. It is worth a read for those managers thinking about approaching this blogging/web 2 world. The stress of becoming more corporately transparent is going to be felt by the management level.

Dunno how Jeff does it.