Best Sessions from Barcamp Milwaukee

I’ll admit — from the moment the intro ses­sion started at Bar­Camp­Mil­wau­kee, I was hooked.  Peo­ple throw­ing around names like Word­Press, Joomla, Dru­pal, and Rich Inter­net Appli­ca­tions and I knew I was in good com­pany.  Granted I’m not very expe­ri­enced in the last, but I can rec­og­nize the poten­tial and am try­ing to grasp the con­cepts of Adobe’s AIR devel­op­ment platform.

The ses­sions I got the most out of were the ones I could use that day.  My pro­fes­sional web site (you’re here, obvi­ously) was stale and the Word­Press ses­sion inspired me to tackle a redesign that made main­ta­nence 100 x eas­ier and post­ing 100000 x easier.

The second-most use­ful ses­sion was Dru­pal.  I’ve never used Dru­pal to build a web app, but when I was try­ing to decide between CMS’s it was Joomla or Dru­pal.  Armed with some new ammu­ni­tion, I might do some more explor­ing of Dru­pal as a robust CMS that has solid code and some cool fea­tures that Joomla doesn’t offer.