Welcome to Google Developer Day 2008

OK, I'm here, I have my shiny Google pass and a coffee I'm ready ;)

It all looks preety good so far, we strangly have a small wrapped up box which is for a session later.. I want to open it now but much like Christmas I'm thinking it may spoil it, apart from that upon arrival we are being showered in free coffee and pastries, if only I could eat the pastries I wouldn't be hungry, very good none the least.

Wembley Stadium is gorgeuos, it may have been over time and budget but it is beautiful, a nice venue to hold such an event in. I'll try to put some pictures online of the stadium later.

I have taken a few quick shots so far and will upload them to Flickr shortly, sadly I forgot my SLR and then Chris Alcock's small camera so alas it's LG "Viewty" quality only, I'll post later with more thoughts and ramblings about the day, given last night's performance though I'm thinking I need to scout out power sources soon!

Update
Google's WiFi has fallen over already and there's only 50 people here, I've switched to my 3G connection, it may be more reliable, although it will suck my battery quicker! Doh!

Pictures so Far

Google Developer Day 2008 London

Tuesday is the UK's Google Developer Day, this year its taking place at Wembley Stadium and I'm lucky enough to be attending

I have to say I'm quite looking forward to it, a chance to get see Google Speakers and to catch up with other developers that utilise the Google API's will be awesome.

So far I have used the Google Calendar API and started to write a .Net wrapper for the YouTube API, so learning about others will be good. The sessions I have pencilled in to attend so far are: State of AJAX: Dion Almaer, YouTube API: Build YOUR YouTube: Jean Laurent Wotton, Mashing up Google Data APIs: Ryan Boyd and probably but not fully sure V8 - the Chrome engine Kevin Millikin.

As you can see it's going to be a jam packed day, but the sessions look top and I look forward to sharing and learning.

Due to travelling I'm heading down Monday night, and coming back on Tuesday Evening. If you are in London on Monday night, and fancy catching a pre dev day pint or even food, drop me a DM on twitter (mjjames)

After the day I plan on doing a summary writeup on here and hopefully sharing some cool info