Last Thursday saw me head up to Kensington to listen to the wisdom of Cal Henderson at Gillian and Ryan Carson's Flickr workshop. The day was cheap by corporate standards (£300) but a pretty big hit for a single developer though nonetheless worth it. The title was "Building Enterprise Web Apps on a budget" and those sort of talks don't grow on trees around here so it was well worth the trip.

As always, it was really good to meet other like minds - Ryan's a man after my own heart and I'm really pleased that he and Gillian are doing so well, Ed didn't turn up till late evening but it was good to see him and also John Hornbaker who has just landed from the states. I was also lucky enough to chat with Gareth Knight, the MTV guys, some of the Skype-kids and Tom Dyson from Torchbox, who I haven't seen in a long while.

Cal, gave a really solid day of talks and some really good insights into the issues surrounding clustered databasing and the realities of Web 2.0 development - good day - good job. A big thank you to Cal, Ryan and Gillian and look forward to bumping into everyone again soon.