Attending SuperHappyDevHouse

SuperHappyDevHouse is a day-long, near-monthly chilled gathering of Sillicon Valley's active geeks, and I was at SHDH19 back on the 11th of August.
(Yes, this is to be partly confused with SHDH Aotearoa, the Southern Hemisphere's subsequently spinoff).

Going to SHDH in America means you find yourself hiring a zipcar with Chris Messina and the lead developer at twitter and having an idyllic navigational haemorrhage. You're also on the pulse of unfolding events, and meet heaps of interesting people and learn of curious projects.

I was honoured by one of the organisers, Joel Franusic, to be able be present to the crowd as part of the event's 5 minute lightning talks. You can see my slideshow of my super quick overview of  New Zealand, my involvement in Lord Of The Rings, and ofcourse, SilverStripe and our Google Summer of Code involvement.