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• SourceForge.net: Reverse Snowflake Joins
  A very interesting tool that can visualise a query – great for debugging queries.
  (tags: python programming visualization database)

• Microsoft Interview Questions
  A collection of interview quizzes that MS uses.
  (tags: interview microsoft questions puzzles)

• SQL WHERE clauses: Avoid CASE, use Boolean logic
  An excellent discussion in using boolean logic in place of 'case' when writng SQL queries
  (tags: sql performance boolean)
• James Carr » Blog Archive » Adventures in Agile Retrospectives
  A great article discussing how to carry out agile retrospectives. Something I need to add more structure to with my team.
  (tags: agile retrospectives)
• Groupthink :: View topic – Red Primer for Children and Diplomats
  A great scan of a book that satired the red revolution. "Red Primer for Children and Diplomats"
  (tags: politics books)
• MIT’s Introduction to Algorithms: Lectures 1 and 2 – good coders code, great reuse
  A great collection of notes to accompany the "Introduction to Algorithms " course video series by MIT
  (tags: algorithms mit course)
• Tip #6 – Customize Propel Generated SQL – Aide de Camp – Fabien Potencier
  A description as to how the sqdb.map in symfony works
  (tags: php symfony)

• Tip #6 – Customize Propel Generated SQL – Aide de Camp – Fabien Potencier
  A description as to how the sqdb.map in symfony works
  (tags: php symfony)

• A Javascript stacktrace in any browser
  A cross browser javascript stacktrace generator. Pretty damn kewl.
  (tags: javascript debugging)

• Raphaël—JavaScript Library
  An interesting library that provides a more simplified interface to drawing vector graphics in the browser. Either uses SVG or VML
  (tags: javascript graphics vector web)

Yes this is a late post, but better late then never. One word summary – excellent. It was long overdue that Malaysia catch up with the rest of the world and start organising a conference for by geeks for geeks.

It was a roller coaster of one and a half days , with a choc-a-bloc schedule. I had stayed on a more tech/design orientated theme myself but there were also talks on time management, music and mathematics.I also liked the talk by Ditesh Kumar on The Malaysian Free Software Movement: The Way Forward which highlighted the Malaysian effort in that scene.

What was even more interesting was meeting up with people, both old and new acquaintances. The energy in the place was really great as well. Although people moved in cliques, there was no problem drifting from one group to the other. I particularly enjoyed seeing the antics of some of the more animated folks.

Props  go out to people like Kamal, Salocin.TEN and Daniel for pulling this off. (I am sure there are many other people involved, but these were the folk I remember ) Not only did they do a great job during the conference they did a fantastic job fielding inquiries from myself before the conference.

I gave a talk myself, which although had a low turn out, seemed to be somewhat well received by those who did attend .

News is there might be more localised Baracamps going for forward (Barcamp Penang and Johor maybe ?) as well as more themed conferences (FOSS, Drupal). If these events are  even half as good as the inaugral Barcamp, they will be definitely worth attending.