Yesterday was InteractionCamp Toronto BarCamp centred around user experience and design.

I was a little brain-frazzled (after moving home this week) to get the premium BarCamp experience, only attending half the session slots and ducking out for part of the day. But still I had a good time.

The BarCamp experience is I think even more subjective than an dinosaur-conference, never has ‘you get out what you put in’ been truer. I would have liked to do a session around physical computing (the interface of computing power, physical things and electronic sensors in interesting ways) but didn’t have the expertise, or at least the prep time that would need.

I did have a bunch of good conversations. Which is central to a good BarCamp expereience. 3D game engines used for modeling the real world, tools to use in some AJAX development I’m doing (JQuery was reliably recommended) and Microsoft as a force for good or evil, or something else. Not a bad selection.