Last year I had an excellent time at Barcamp NOLA. This year's Barcamp NOLA 2 was twice as large and more than twice as fun. Many thanks to all to the good people of New Orleans for making me feel at home. @cSchultz, @tritico, @NewJess, @LizMoney, @ev3rywh3re, @hartmyst, @CallMeAlva, @plainprogrammer (And many more who's twitter accounts I don't know)

Although they had four rooms open for panels, somehow, every session I was interested in was held in the main room. I attended panels on:

• Unit Testing
• Design patterns you can learn from a professional kitchen
• The history of SMS
  -- The average American sends 347 text messages a month yet only make 243 phone calls a month.
• Design patterns for mobile devices
• Four apps that turn the iPhone camera into a point and shoot replacement
  -- Night Camera, iFlash Ready, Photo Jen, and Autostitch
• Bringing social networking skills to realestate agents
• Application and Network secuity
  -- I need to check out Burp Suite, OWASP, WebGoat, Paros, and, cain oxid.it

I gave a talk on Cloud Computing and how it can be used by startups.  The talk went well.  At the end of the talk, I was pleased Chris asked me to demo PriceChirp for the group as a real world example of a project running in the cloud.