Return on Intention

 Dave Thomas speaks about Linux and Nagios [18:06m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Dave Thomas was the last presenter at this years barcamp. He spoke about Linux, open source software, and what the state government is doing with it. I was amazed to hear that the Justice Department where Dave works used any open source software at all. I though that Microsoft and other large companies had the government wrapped up in a little bow, but according to Dave, that is not the case. With the need to cut costs continuing to be important, many state agencies are looking to open source software to help out.

 Programming with Scratch by Adam Thomas [11:31m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Adam was the youngest of the BarCamp presenters this year. I believe he is still in elementary school. He came with his father David Thomas, but not because he needed a baby sitter. He came to talk about Scratch. Scratch is a visual programming environment for kids, made by the folks at MIT to introduce kids to programming concepts. It allows children to work on projects that they can post online for other Scratch users to look at, and vote on. Not only was Adam knowledgeable about his topic and created his presentation himself, but he also had a good presentation style. He didn’t just read from his slides but added commentary of the top of his head when appropriate. I was impressed. Take a listen.

 Gabriel Ortiz talks on StupidFilter: Saving Web 2.0 From Itself [24:35m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Gabriel Ortiz is the developer of StupidFilter and at this years barcamp he spoke about it. He talks about how the concept of StupidFilter came about, what it does and why the name may not have been the greatest choice. Gabriel has a co-presenter, but unfortunately, his name wasn’t posted on the BarCamp Albuquerque wiki, and the recording didn’t start in time to catch his name. I can only hope someone leaves a comment or sends me an email so I can update this post with the second speakers name.

UPDATE – the Co-presenter is Paul Starr

 Daniel Lyons presentation on ReST [19:18m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

What is ReST? So much less than you’ve heard, according to Daniel Lyons. Daniel is a technologist  and my business partner at seven-gen. His presentation at this years BarCamp was an overview of ReST (Representational state transfer). There are some code snippets and comparisons you may not be able to follow in audio, but a good overview non the less.

 X is for XMPP: An Open Messaging Primer [41:27m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Jack Moffitt spoke twice at BarCamp this year. On day one he covered Start-ups and you can find that talk here. On the second day he covered XMPP, a messaging protocol he has been looking into and using. This talk covers some groud to get you up and running with XMPP is and can do.

 Hidden Treasures of the Zope 3 Community [34:04m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Michael Bernstein was the first speaker at Albuquerque BarCamp 3 Day 2. His presentation on the Hidden Treasures of the Zope 3 Community fell victim to some slight first-thing-in-the-morning technical issues, but he recovered well and finished the talk. Michael wrote the book on Zope, but as you will hear, you shouldn’t buy it… it’s now slightly dated.

 Start up and technology by Jack Moffitt [64:01m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Jack Moffitt presented at BarCamp Albuquerque about start-ups and start-up related ideas. I’m pretty sure that Jack qualifies as a serial entrepreneur. I believe he is on his sixth start-up at the time of this writing. Jack also spoke on day two of BarCamp about xmpp, so stay tuned for that.