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Now don’t get me wrong, IZEAFest was a big event for me. Just a long road to get there. I’ve spent the last three months working day/nights/weekends coding a new feature for IZEAFest only to have it pulled at the last minutes because the QA department got backed testing other projects. Although extremely dis-apointed in this decision I do understand it. It just sucks.

However as IZEAFest came around Rai and I did have a great time.

Thursday was of course the meet and greet. I got to see our friends from last year Cass, Colleen, and Heather. Plus got to meet a few other friends as well. The meet/greet was alright. Such that I seem to be always on the job, made a new contact for the sales department and talked to a few advertisers about how to help them with social media. All in all not a bad evening.

Friday was all about trying to help out the event. Although I was only supposed to be a floater for half the day I stuck around the whole day pitching in as needed. Since none of my code was going to be deployed for the “big” event I felt I wasn’t needed for the deploy. Paid off as other dev’s got called away so I got to help run the sound board. Just doing my part I guess.

Even though the request was in that we attend IZEAFest I didn’t go Saturday. Idid learn a lot of great stuff on Friday and the live video feed I choose to stay home Saturday and work on an interface for my project. Although I couldn’t help tuning in and listening to the widgets/plugins panels. That was a mistake.

All they wanted to talk about was “What widgets and plugins” they used. Please, I wanted to hear some meat. How do you qualify a widget/plugin? How do you handle security? I logged into the chat room for the event and became very active in the discussions.

Saturday night after the party however I was an IZEAHunt team captain. After a little team shuffling we got started. I really was awesome. I say that as I didn’t have to get all dirty this time. Rai was on my team and she enjoyed it. I had to other poeple on my team and they were awesome as well. They found it amazing that just a simple little contest like this would bring out the fun. Never did either of the two think that the other would do something like this.

With the input of the IZEAFest conference I have sorta redesigned by blog. Still a work in progress but looks a lot better than it did. After four months of working nearly non-stop I think I’ll just go watch a movie, or really anything a way from a computer at the moment.