I’ve had a great couple of days at OSDC 2011! Tuesday I was hanging out at the First Ever Australian GR8 Conference, spent Tuesday night with the CJUG boys, then have been presenting today on PhoneGap to the broader OSDC conference. Great times!

Interesting this is definitely one of the hardest core developer communities I have hung out with. Hardly any Macbooks/iPhones in sight and Linux laptops and Android phones everywhere! People are really committed to the Open Source way here.

The First Ever GR8 Conf in .au

It was great to hang out with a bunch of the awesome team from the local Groovy and Grails community. I gave a shortened version of my SpringOne talk on Grails UI refactors. The slides are up on SlideShare if you missed it:

Does my DIV look big in this?

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After a fantastic day of talks from a bunch of great speakers, we had a  chance to kick back with Paul King, Steve Dalton, Craig Aspinall, Peter McNeil, Dean Macaulay, Paul Kilpatrick, James Swann and a bunch of CJUGers at the local watering hole.

Hacking PhoneGap for Fun and Profit

Earlier today I had great fun presenting to an enthusiastic crowd of mobile developers on the joy of PhoneGap. Again, the slides are on SlideShare.

**[Fake Your Way as a Mobile Developer Rockstar with PhoneGap](http://www.slideshare.net/glen_a_smith/fake-your-way-as-a-mobile-developer-rockstar-with-phonegap-10179146 "Fake Your Way as a Mobile Developer Rockstar with PhoneGap")**
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One of the great facilities they had at the conference centre was an old-school data projector. We put it to good use showing off the deployment of [our little conference app](http://blogs.bytecode.com.au/glen/2011/11/08/osdc2011-phonegap-and-google-spreadsheet-hacking.html) to my actual Android phone. Ever though a few of the demos snagged, it was all part of the fun of deploying to real devices!

   

Thanks to @spidie, @jamedmonson, and @davecode for the pics!

Had a fantastic time hanging out with everyone too! Great conference so far!