Amazon DevCon - Rael Dornfest

Published by Colin on 21st January 2005.

Several well-known technologists and software developers were invited to an internal conference for the development staff at amazon.com headquarters this week. Most corporations would close an event like this to outsiders, which is what Amazon has done also. The major difference being that they’ve been blogging highlights of the talks to the rest of the world via the Amazon Web Services Blog. They’re basically killing two birds with one stone: scoring top marks for openness and simultaneously showing potential recruits the kind of perks that come with working there. They “get it” and also attract people who “get it”.

Anyway, this brings me to the talk given by Rael Dornfest, the creator of blosxom. Even though the transcript was somewhat limited by its stenographed style it managed to get my pulse racing in one of those someone’s transcribing my (not very original) thoughts! moments.

A few choice fragments:

And there’s plenty more where those came from…