Webdurance, a 24 hour event to hack together a website for a set of local charities, and the idea of brothers Paul and David King from 1DayLater.com, damn near killed me. I haven’t been quite that tired in a very long time. I’m not consumed that amount of coffee, or sugar in so long either. Strangely, I also ate more fruit than I normally do too.

I haven’t attended anything similar in the past, so I can’t really say whether or not it was well organised relative to other charity hacks, but I can say with some certainty that everything went incredibly well on the day. There were no disasters, all the scheduled food breaks happened, the location was ideal, the freebies were worth having, and everyone had a great time. From speaking to a few of the charity representatives after 24 hours of coding I’m sure that they were pleased with the result of everyone’s hard work too. Everyone involved should be rightly proud of themselves, especially Paul, Dave and Ester who organised everything.

The success of the day, marked by the quality of the websites that the charities now have, is testament to the web design and development talent in the region.

I hope Webdurance turns in to an annual event. I’ll definitely be there for the next one. Congratulations again to everyone who was there.