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FotB 07 The Day After - Good morning, Goodbye

2007-11-08T08:09:02Z

I'm having a quick breakfast at the hotel before going to Brighton Station. The weather suits my mood: this is the greyest and wettest morning I've seen in a week. I wonder: '06 in December, '07 in November, '08 in September - will FotB '10 be a ...

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FotB 07 Final Day - See you in September 2008

2007-11-07T18:40:51Z

Last night's party went much better for me that the Casino thing. The music in the disco was a bit cheesy, but it's been a lot of fun to see John Davey, Brendan Dawes, Hoss Gifford (who looked a little like Dr. Evil) and others doing their thing o...

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FotB 07 Day 2

2007-11-06T18:59:35Z

Just a quick post, because I don't have much time left before the today's inspired sessions starts. I saw another bunch of great sessions today, some more coding-oriented, some not: Ted Patrick (some best practices, not only for Flex but all sof...

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FotB 07 Day 1 - Scratching and Queuing

2007-11-06T00:12:29Z

For me the new "Inspired Sessions" concept worked quite well - although a lot of people returned only minutes before 8pm to the Dome and delayed the start. Brendan Dawes did his best to match Joshua Davies' performance a few hours ago: he was fun...

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FotB 07 Day 1 - Let the show begin...

2007-11-05T18:25:28Z

Picking up my badge at the early registration yesterday left me enough time to enjoy breakfast at the hotel and still arrive at the Dome in time. Everything looks familiar, except for the coffee: this time it's for free! :) The keynote starte...

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FotB 07 Day 0 - Party Theme?

2007-11-04T23:24:13Z

Before finally going to sleep, I just had this idea for a themed party: everyone has to be dressed exclusively in FotB goodies: flip-flops, towel, stickers, last year's beanie hat, ...

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FotB 07 Day 0 - Bring out the Schwag

2007-11-04T22:27:57Z

I went to the early registration this morning to finally get my hands on this year's goodies - I wasn't disappointed! Everything was packed in a black backpack including a laptop compartment - what makes this IMHO stand out from the bags you g...

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FotB 07 T-1 - At the beach

2007-11-03T15:10:23Z

Not a cloud in the sky - but also not much wind. That's good, if you want to lie at the beach and read a book - but bad, if you want to fly a kite. Still, after running around for two days, we had a great time relaxing.

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FotB 07 T-2 - Geocaching, Marina, Cliff Walk

2007-11-03T15:05:40Z

After a fine breakfast we took a long walk to the Hove Park, where we placed a Geocoin we brought with us from Germany into the "Goldstone". On the way back we took the bus all the way to the Marina east of Brighton and had some nice views of the...

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FotB 07 T-3 - Exploring Brighton

2007-11-01T20:51:44Z

I haven't had time to see much of Brighton last year and the weather wasn't all that great - smart move, to make it happen in November this time. From the Alvia Hotel we started a long walk down to the ocean, along the beach and Brighton Pier. W...

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