20100322

Today I am in DC, well Bethesda MD actually, attending a conference on the open source product, OpenClinica that one of my projects based in Iowa City uses to support biomedical informatics needs.

I learned a great deal about the OpenClinica product and its capabilities.
Those working around its limitations, seem mostly unwilling or unable to share actual code, so I found it fairly frustrating that we'll have to reimplement their approaches based solely on having the gist of what they've done.

Following the day, I got the metro down to Dupont Circle.
I hung out at the Brickskeller, my favorite place in DC!

In addition to a nice pizza, I had
Bells: Batch 9000
Heavy Seas: siren noir

I also had
Bells: Consecrator with a piece of glorious cheesecake.

It was a good day (at least the evening!).