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Hello all well this is my first of daily blogs whilst I am away in Copenhagen for a week for the Umbraco Codegaren08 conference.

I have started writing this post from home this morning whilst I am finishing up packing I've checked that I have got all my cables for my laptop and checked my e-mail for my boarding pass, so now I am good to go!

OK I landed in Copenhagen and met the gang at the Metro station dropped off my stuff at the hotel (which I have 4 beds to choose to sleep from tonight - including a top bunk) and was discussing some different things with umbraco and stuff in general, but the coolest thing to me was that Niels made a change to the latest source that allows me to improve the performance of my XSLT macros to external services such as twitter etc in a matter of minutes !! Niels has improved the XSLT extension umbraco.library for GetXMLDocumentByURL which supports caching by providing a value in seconds for the cache time.

Then it was time for food, we took the metro a couple stops and went through the famous Copenhagen landmark town of Christiania, which I knew nothing about until today, which is a small self governing town which started from squatters squatting on the military land. (I learn something new everyday). We found a cosy little place to have a drink, some food and to have a chat. By the end of the meal Casey nearly fell asleep at the table which was understandable considering the long flight he and Doug had.

Anyway I am know back in the hotel room blogging from the top bunk of the room whilst watching Little Nicky the film on the TV in the background and on that note its time for me to wrap up for today.

//Warren