gommo June 30th, 2008
Saturday was the main day of the conference. Sessions go for 1 hour (5 session times in the day) and there were 5 sessions that ran in parallel. This made it hard to decide what I actually wanted to go to and I found it particularly harder than this year with many quality sessions. The CITCON wiki will slowly be updated this week from notes taken in those sessions. It can be found @ http://www.citconf.com/wiki/index.php?title=CITCONAsiaPacific2008Sessions
Some pics are already surfacing too - http://flickr.com/photos/talios/sets/72157605892492402/
The best part about CITCON is just socialising with the talented people that attend. Everyone is dead keen on agile and continuous integration (obviously because they gave up their weekends). Being from Newcastle means I’m not surrounded or have frequent access to this type of talent and I think it’s important to take the things learned from these events and adapt my development processes for the better.
I’ll be helping organise next years event so hopefully we can make it even bigger and better.
gommo June 28th, 2008
Arrived at CITCON on Friday night for the session scoping night. CITCON is run in an Open Spaces format which means there is no agenda, the responsibility of running a good conference is up to the attendees. The only rule is the ‘Rule of Two Feet’. If your not getting value out of a session, standup and go to another one.
There were a few familiar faces from CITCON 2007 in Sydney but by far the majority where new people from Melbourne. CITCON 2008 Melbourne was also the largest CITCON worldwide to date, beating out Sydney for the top honour. This is great news for Australia as its indicating there is a lot of interest for this type of development as well as demonstrating the amount of talent we have here.
After the topics for Saturday were proposed there was a social hour and then about 12 of us headed off for a local pub. It took us so long to find a decent one that didn’t have $30 cover charges that we lost 2 guys along the way 
I woke up a little worse for wear on Sat morning ready for the sessions.
gommo June 26th, 2008
I’m off to Melbourne tomorrow for CITCON, 2008 and hoping to pick up as much valuable information about Continuous Integration and Testing as possible. Last year, my team was still in the early steps of adopting many of these strategies. A year on, and hopefully I have something to bring to the table this year.
It looks like being a full conference so looking forward to meeting lots of new faces.