Google Hack-a-thon and Penny Arcade Expo

12 Aug

Just booked tickets to Seattle for the last weekend in August. There’s a major convergence of awesome going on that weekend. First, Google is hosting a Hack-a-thon for App Engine at the Seattle Google headquarters. We’ll be swinging by to learn a lot about app engine and hopefully get some work done on brave new fiction. Oh, and looking forward to meeting a lot other App Engine Developers.

The hack-a-thon just happens to precede the Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle also. Ah, hell yeah. I don’t plan on getting much sleep in that weekend!

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