We just arrived back from Daemons Speakers&Friends BBQ. It's 2:20 am, I'm bloody tired and we've got a plane to catch heading to Christchurch on 9:50 am. This said, this is going to become a short one ;) The annual BBQ was awesome, like always. This became one of the major MXDU events obviously as there seem to be a bunch of people (like ourselves) who planned their travel according to this BBQ…

Just found on cfaussie: I'm at home on my sofa missing it all. I'll go in soon. Last night is a bit of a haze. Some bird from Microsoft put her company credit card behind the bar, and I decided that if Bill was paying, then i was drinking. So i started getting the double VRBs in. Stanton got 14 zambuccas for everyone there- and i ended up necking about 3 of them. The last thing i remember was…

This year the Daemon guys came up with the great idea of holding a banquet on the night of day 1 of MXDU. After a lot of people became confused about what to wear (at least this still IS a developers conference...), Geoff sent some basic rules: wear whatever you want but try to wear shoes ;) And - the reason for that was quite obvious. Before we got allowed to get drinks or food all participants…

Woke way too late this morning. I wanted to be downstairs early to support Daemon with setting up all the things in the conference area, damn! So I arrived down there at 8:30 am and ran into Sean Corfield who I met yesterday already to say hello, but we didn't find time to chat. The keynote was opened by Geoff Bowers and handed over to Mark Blair (server manager of MM AsiaPac). He showed two…