Prémio mais votado pelo publico
sapo frogger - Pedro Cardoso
(com as minhas desculpas pelo erro.)
Prémio Ideias
bookworms - Pedro Sousa
Prémio Remix
sapo boavida - Luis Rei e Samuel Martins
Prémio Geek
Bruno Pedro
ei esta malta é (quase) toda do Prt.Sc !!!!!
Parabéns a todos!
...e o resto já não ouvi. Já só tinha ouvidos para os Wraygunn !
Well, in and out of the first day of Sapo Codebits, or Toad, and a few thoughts sprung to mind.
I'm gonna do this the old school way of dividing in a The Good, The Bad, The Ugly sort of way, so..
The Good :
- Getting to know fellas like Diogo, Luis, the segway dude, Samuel and the lovely Mono Hacker, and meeting up with "the" PHP Man , the Python Evangelist Extraordinaire, Franc and the hacker behind some of the funniest storys I've heard and of course, the geekiest guy I know Cafonso
- Mike Culver's Presentation. That was what I was there for.
The Bad :
- The Wireless bandwidth available.
- The food.
- Did I mention the low bandwidth (well, the codebits page is kind of remeniscent of a heyday of 16k modems, but come on!!)
The Ugly :
- PT's Pulso app.
I mean, the app/system in itself looks great and seems to be a wonderful piece of enterprisey software, but PT taking advantage of Open Source Software to build a great product and then selling it? What are they giving back to the community? Bug-fixes? Is that enough for such a big company? Shouldn't we expect a little more? Ok, this is just one more reason why I don't like PT, Sapo or any of the PTM companies.
Final verdict:
- If you were there, probably you had fun. If you weren't ,don't feel too bad. It's a well over hyped event.
I'll be back tomorrow, and hopefully I'll be able to catch up again with some of the folks I've met today and be able to see some more presentations.
Well, it seems that I made the cut after all, but I only managed to get here some 30 minutes ago.
Not all is lost, I still managed to catch Mike Culver talk about Amazon WebServices, namely S3 and the amazing EC2. As soon as I'm able I'll post an update about the talk itself and my first impressions.
Stay tuned.
We're just 10 days away from Toad CodeBits.
This promises to be the biggest gathering of 'tuga* code monkeys this year and I'm looking forward to being there. Although, come to think of it, I don't know if I'll actually make it. The thing is, it seems that you have to both register for the event and then make some sort of announcement and hope that you make the final cut.
That last bit seems to be a problem for me, 'cause I really don't like Sapo (the company, the search engine, the portal, the....) at all. But since I have to admit that I would really like to be there, here it goes....
If I manage to get in, I'm looking forward to hearing Mike Culver from Amazon, Marco Gonçalves (on the BSDs) and hu... wraygunn
* 'tuga is slang for Portuguese.
