Ok, so I don't know kungf u but I was able to make it to the Ajax Kung Fu Meets Accessibility Feng Shui panel. The first half of the presentation was pretty interesting. Jeremy Keith used some screen captures from the Matrix to help illustrate his points or at least make his presentation look cool. He talked about how there is a fine line when using cool new mechanisms like AJAX - a line that is often crossed making good apps go bad.
Next up was Gamer's Games: Microcontent and User Creation. My interest in this panel came from the unbelievable growth of user-generated content and how it has taken the web community by storm. What I didn't expect was the excellent discussion that we got into about the various types of content generated from users that exist outside of the normal cloud of graphics, movies, blogs, etc... things like personalities and relationships. It gave me a lot to think about regarding building community in the apps we write... good stuff.
After lunch we peddled over to Bullet Tooth Web Design: Plan Your Web Site like Pulling off a Robbery. This was more entertainment than application, and I figured that wearing black ski masks in our daily scrum probably would not go over well with management. They highlighted the "quick and dirty" on how to approach web projects...
The highlight of the day was the Yahoo! BarTab after party. Not just because there was tons of swag, or free everything, or even because we got to hear The Little Ones (they definitely were a highlight though). We had a unique opportunity to interrupt Robert Hoekman Jr. and his wife having a conversation. Originally we thought that we missed an opportunity to talk to him during his "Why we should ignore users" panel - but we successfully backed him into a corner and fired away. It was an awesome experience. It was nice to talk to someone who truly loved doing what they do.