{"id":596,"date":"2006-04-27T14:06:50","date_gmt":"2006-04-27T19:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=596"},"modified":"2006-04-27T14:11:30","modified_gmt":"2006-04-27T19:11:30","slug":"the-cream-starts-to-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2006\/04\/27\/the-cream-starts-to-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"The cream starts to rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/barcamp.org\/TorCampDemoCamp5\">DemoCamp5<\/a> this week once again demonstrated this city&#8217;s huge as-yet unsatiated thirst for tech collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>Summaries and reviews of the content can be had from a few places &#8211; here are two of them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Joey De Villa summarizes and gives the <a href=\"http:\/\/accordionguy.blogware.com\/blog\/_archives\/2006\/4\/26\/1913279.html\">Paula Abdul review<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Chris Nolan gives the <a href=\"http:\/\/chrisnolan.ca\/ID\/967\">Simon Cowell review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I spent time afterwards working the room at the pub and had quite a few interesting conversations, the most interesting of which were with Ryan McMinn and Pete Forde of <a href=\"unspace.ca\">Unspace<\/a>.  I&#8217;ve been acquainted with Ryan for some time but was impressed with his depth and how well he articulates his passion.  I met Pete at the last DemoCamp and we clicked on a few levels. and it was gratifying to share opinions on the state of webdev and its potential directions.<\/p>\n<p>Pete has been posting some <a href=\"http:\/\/unspace.ca\/discover\">Unspace essays<\/a> that contribute extremely well to the evolution of the web development commons.  Highly recommended reading &#8211; there&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/unspace.ca\/discover\/rss\/\">rss feed<\/a> to be had, so snarf it with all speed.<\/p>\n<p>The braintrust at these gatherings is remarkable.  Come and see for yourself.  And I mean YOU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto&#8217;s DemoCamp5 this week once again demonstrated this city&#8217;s huge as-yet unsatiated thirst for tech collaboration. Summaries and reviews of the content can be had from a few places &#8211; here are two of them: Joey De Villa summarizes and gives the Paula Abdul review Chris Nolan gives the Simon Cowell review I spent time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1,5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barcamp","category-blather","category-democamp","category-torcamp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}