Much too quickly, the Drupal Dev Days in Dublin were over. About 150 people had come to do code sprints, pub tours and participate in talks about project management, Drupal internals and — looking at myself — building virtual development environments. (More on that later.)

We were lucky that the Dublin Institute of Technolgy provided the conference venue for free. Its building in Aungier Street was easy to reach and had more than enough space for us. Thanks, DIT!

freistil IT supported the Dev Days as Gold Sponsor and we’re very happy with our engagement. freistilbox was featured prominently both at the conference venue and at the Odeon where we had the freistilbox Party with drinks and barbecue on Saturday night. The organization team managed to answer all our questions quickly and always kept us up-to-date on what was relevant for us as a sponsor.

We participated in the Job Speed Dating on Friday afternoon, but unfortunately, there were only a handful of interested applicants. Actually, there were quite obviously more companies looking for people than people looking for jobs. But that doesn’t make the idea of quickly connecting job seekers with relevant businesses a bad one. On the contrary, we hope that more conferences are going to add such an event to their programme!

The session schedule on Saturday and Sunday was diverse and interesting. (I have to say that it made me sad to see attendance dropping heavily on Sunday, probably because of the freistilbox Party the night before.) Together with Steven Jones and Marcus Deglos, I gave an introduction into easy VM management with Vagrant. In my part, I highlighted how using automation tools like Chef simplify setting up an individual system configuration from scratch that can then be replicated exactly and within minutes.

Since I’m going to move to Ireland next month, I was double happy to visit the green island for Drupal Dev Days. I enjoyed my stay very much and would like to thank everyone for making it a great Drupal community event! Special thanks go to the organization team for their tremendous efforts. Togha oibre!