During the last months I attended two excellent meetings. One was the TYPO3DD08 and the other was the „Dirty Handson Session“ (Forelle ist geil!). During the last session we worked on HCI issues in Arnhem @ the Netcreators office together with Ben van ‚t Ende, Benjamin Mack, Jens Hoffmann, Patrick Broens, Steffen Kamper and me. We had a lot of fun and made a good start improving the backend step by step….
http://typofree.org/articles/optimizing-typo3-backend-responsiveness/