Well, BADCamp had another incredibly successful year. I lived in Berkeley for 10 years, so I  always make sure to go to this camp as a chance to see old friends in between sessions and nights out getting drupal-drunk. Great venue, lots of free wireless access, gallons of coffee, and a plethora of doughnuts, bagels, and snacks. (Yes, I do know what it means to have a plethora.) Yummy organic cheap eats nearby. A free t-shirt even! And a sponsored (ie free beer) party at Jupiter, and they were nice enough to let in all us shabby programmers :) Thanks to all the organizers, especially Tao and Jen and all the sponsors!

Friday night brought my favorite of all activities, dinner at Chez Panisse in north Berkeley. If you haven't been, you're missing out on some of the best food on the west coast, even if you do have to eat late cause you made your reservation at the last minute :) And honestly, its really not that epensive, especially if you eat upstairs at the "cafe". Two and a half hours and 3 desserts later, and I was well fortified for battling nodes, themes, and even simepletests all weekend long.

The presentations over the next two days were mostly very polished and informative, thanks to everyone who gave a talk, I thought the quality was very nice. Mine seemed to be fairly well received, and I hope I was able to create a few new drupal devs. The installfest seemed to go really well, and thanks to Chris Bryant some weird configurations managed to get their copies of core up and running smoothly. I use xampp on a mac for ease-of-use, but there was still plenty to figure out when I first set it up those months ago. Good to remember its often not that easy, especially if
you're not used to working with a command line or server tools.

Saturday night there was a small, but active, testing party to get some simpletest patches reviewed and into core. As chx, flobruit, and dmitrig01 explained, we're still pretty far from 100% core code coverage, so there's still plenty of opportunity to get involved. Getting into test writing is not hard, and reviewing tests is even easier.

Chapter3 has been hiring and brought a crew of friendly folks. WorkHabit had a lot of staff and volunteered (again!) to do all the A/V recording for the event. Achieve managed to bring up 5from San Diego, and the LA Drupal group was well represented as well.

Flew back Sunday night full of new Drupals and impressed as always by the great community and spirit behind Drupal. Overall a great trip that didn't cost a lot of nodes, I can't wait to be back next year :)

Now we roll into the holidays and the camp schedule winds down significantly. I heard a rumor that the next DrupalCon is going to be Washington, DC - my hometown! Going to start planning as soon as its official. That won't be until early next year, so its back to the grindstone for me until then.