I had a phone call with someone about the workshop I'm running next week at 6:30 this morning. This whole time zone thing is a killer! After breakfast, back to the conference, where I am learning this morning about deploying large scale web applications - things like tracking changes and rolling changes into production automatically, with integrated bug tracking at each step. It's fairly amusing, although possibly not the most exciting presentation I've ever been to (during the break, I met some people from colleges across the US who were singularly unimpressed with the teaching method being used in the session).

What was this teaching method that was so unimpressive?

Primarily, they objected to the fact that he was showing code examples and actually running some of the scripts as he went along. The display wasn't really big enough, and they really wanted more of the uses than the deployment. Additonally, looking at lines of code is not as exciting as, for example, the guy speaking now who used a clip from youtube which mashed up Super Friends and Office Space.