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NMC 2005 Conference Overview Video

dnorman — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

This summer, at the NMC 2005 Summer Conference, they shot a bunch of video with interviews of some of the attendees, and some highlights of the conference. The video was distributed via DVD to the campus NMC rep – which is/was me. Instead of duplicating the DVD, or managing some form of sign in/out process, here’s the video. It was a quick-and-dirty rip of the DVD using Handbrake, so no bonus points for the art of video compression… The video is only 9 minutes long, so it’s not a big time investment.

It looks like the “official” version of this video on the NMC website is MIA, so if you want to see it, this may be your only chance. I make a quick cameo early on – look for the guy in the blue Hawaiian shirt and beige shorts walking past the camera with snack in hand at the Apple reception…

Back in town – travel notes from WWDC2005 and Hawaii

dnorman — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

The Norman family got back into town yesterday afternoon, after what felt like a 24-hour journey home. Checked out of the hotel at 10am Sunday, returned home 3pm Monday… It was sunny and warm in Honolulu, cold and shitty and rainy in Calgary. I want to go back…

There’s a whole bunch I want to blog about, including rants/raves about spending 2 weeks in Honolulu (and some tips for anyone else planning on doing the same).

We had a blast. Evan was surprisingly well behaved (sorta). And I got the shakes from not having an internet connection in the condo for 2 weeks (but there was a business centre in the lobby, which was well utilized).

In the meantime, I’ve put together a quick Flickr album on the Hawaii visit, as well as the previous week at WWDC2005.

Update: Here are the notes I put together on the timeline / tips from the trip. Thought I should paste it here before the file went missing from my desktop…

June 5 (Sunday)

Leave Calgary, Arrive San Francisco Sushi in Chinatown with King

June 6 (Monday)

WWDC 2005 Stevenote – Intel Inside™ Announcement
Find out about new WebObjects development licensing (YAY!)
Supper with Cole Camplese, Jason Ediger and friends

June 7 (Tuesday)

Find out about new WebObjects deployment licensing (CRAP!)
Supper with Scott Morris, Jason Ediger, and the MacLearningEnvironments.org folks

June 8 (Wednesday)

Have Pachyderm deployed as a single servlet .war package under Tomcat 3.x
Lunch with Peter Samis and the SFMOMA gang, Jason Ediger, Josh & King

June 9 (Thursday)

Apple Campus Bash, with The Wallflowers

June 10 (Friday)

Leave San Francisco, arrive Calgary

June 11 (Saturday)

Laundry. Repack.

June 12 (Sunday)

Relax. Get ready for trip. Sleep(?)

June 13 (Monday)

leave Calgary, arrive Honolulu
Check into condo at Ilikai
Visit Waikiki
Visit hotels around Ilikai – Hilton Hawaiian Village, etc…

June 14 (Tuesday)

Ala Moana Park Beach in the morning
Waikiki beach at Hilton Hawaiian Village in the afternoon

June 15 (Wednesday)

Take TheBUS™ to Waikiki with Josh – hit International Marketplace, Duke K. statue, etc…
Lunch with Josh back at the Ilikai @ Canoe’s

June 16 (Thursday)

Pachyderm 2.0 Session @ NMC
Family takes NMC tour of Waikiki Aquarium
NMC luau at Kapliani Community College

June 17 (Friday)

Creative Action At a Distance Session @ NMC

June 18 (Saturday)

Lunch with family and Alan Levine at the Cheeseburger Factory
Head to Waikiki for the afternoon, wind up staying for Sunset at the Beach – a festival right on the beach, complete with feature movie on a big outdoor screen. Great sunset, too.

June 19 (Sunday)

Ala Moana Center, lunch at Ruby Tuesday.
Ala Moana Park Beach
Torch lighting ceremony @ Ilikai

June 20 (Monday)

Bus trip to Polynesian Cultural Center
Luau and ceremony

June 21 (Tuesday)

Honolulu Zoo (lame)

June 22 (Wednesday)

Janice and George take bus tour of Oahu
- - Dole plantation
- - North Shore beaches
D’Arcy and Evan take bus to zoo, then hike back, and hit Waikiki Beach for the morning.

June 23 (Thursday)

Bus trip to Hanauma Bay for snorkling

June 24 (Friday)

Hike up Diamondhead
Supper @ Canoe’s
Fireworks

June 25 (Saturday)

Gay Pride parade
Walking along Waikiki area shops – Galleria aquarium store
Afternoon @ Ala Moana Park Beach
Torch lighting ceremony @ Ilikai, and musicians poolside
Supper @ Canoe’s

June 26 (Sunday)

Sea Life Park
Leave Honolulu

June 27 (Monday)

Arrive Phoenix, then Calgary

NMC2005 – Creative Action at a Distance

dnorman — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Josh, King and myself put on a session this morning called "Creative Action at a Distance" – where we outlined the tools that we use to collaborate while building the Pachyderm 2.0 software.

King iChatAVed in after 28 hours of sleep deprivation, shortly after landing at the Calgary International Airport – apparently there's wireless in the food court now…

It was surprisingly well attended – we had a full house (even if nobody wanted to sit in the front row…)

Some of the apps/utilities we use are listed on a wiki page – please feel free to extend/modify as desired.

NMC Opening Reception

dnorman — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

The opening reception last night was pretty cool. Got to touch base with a bunch of folks that I hadn’t seen since last year’s conference, and got to meet a whole bunch of new folks. I didn’t win the iPod Shuffle, but that’s OK…

I had one of the coolest experiences though. I just had a picture taken with Tim Wang, and as I look up, there is someone standing in front of me, noticing my nametag badge. All of a sudden, she breaks into this gorgeous smile, and says “Are you D’Arcy Norman?”

Um… Yeah… (I’m so clever in my on-the-spot responses)

“My husband and I read your blog all the time!”

So we walk over to where her husband is sitting, and we do the introductions. (Hi Brad!) Turns out my blog helped someone feel a bit more comfortable coming to a new conference. Very cool.

Got to Honolulu OK

dnorman — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Evan was absofreaking amazing on the flights from Calgary –> Phoenix –> Honolulu. Wow. I mean, I would have bet a million bajillion dollars against the poor lad. And I would have lost. He was the Perfect Child. Amazing.

Honolulu is pretty nice. Awfully busy, and quite touristy. But, what did I expect? I’ve posted some quick photos to my Flickr Account.

Thanks to everyone who sent positive karma/whuffie/wishes our way. Totally worked!

NMC2005 Presentation: Distance Collaboration Techniques

dnorman — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

I just received word that our proposed session for NMC 2005 was accepted! The official title is: “Creative Action at a Distance: Practical Tools for Effective Online Collaboration”, and we’re planning on describing and demonstrating the techniques that we used to develop the Pachyderm software with people scattered across North America.

Fun stuff like pair programming with VNC, iChatAV, wikis, weblogs, Breeze Live, SubEthaEdit, etc…

My co-conspirators in this are Joshua Archer and King Chung Huang. If you’re going to be at NMC2005, I look forward to seeing you at the session!

If you’re going to the conference, and are looking to bring family members, be sure to check out the condos in the same building as the conference hotel! The Norman clan was able to grab a 2 bedroom condo with a kitchen for 2 weeks, and there’s apparently several units left.