Day 2 was brilliant straight off the bat. Apparently, Jeff Veen gave a very good presentation at the 2005 conference, which unfortunately was before my conference-going time.
Jeff Veen - Designing our way through data
Jeff Veen is truly a brilliant speaker, and having been involved in designing tools such as Blogger, TypePad, Flickr and Google Analytics, [...]
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WDS Day Two: Electric Boogaloo
Published September 29th, 2008 in Uncategorized, tagged: wds08 1 CommentWDS Day One: Recap-o-rama!
Published September 29th, 2008 in Uncategorized, tagged: wds08 5 CommentsWeb Directions is over for another year, so here is my annual brain-dump of intertesting tidbits from the sessions I attended this year. I’ll try to be a little more brief than in previous years.
Lynne D Johnson - Opening Keynote
Lynne spoke about the decline of the print industry in the face of rising new [...]
WDS08: Workshop Day Two - Javascript, the awesome parts
Published September 25th, 2008 in Uncategorized, tagged: wds08 0 CommentsToday’s workshop, “Javascript: The Good Parts” was run by Douglas Crockford. Doug is a very clever guy who is part of the committee organising the next version Javascript. Although this session was more of a lecture than a workshop, it takes a session with a guy like this to show you how little you actually [...]
WDS08: Workshop Day One - Django-a-gogo!
Published September 24th, 2008 in Uncategorized, tagged: jeff croft, wds08 0 CommentsIf you’ve been following my Twitter page, you’ll know that I’m currently in Sydney for the Web Directions conference. My hotel room is the size of a shoe box, but at least it’s quite comfortable (I brought my own pillow this time). The super-expensive hotel broadband is currently running at dial-up speeds. The shower pressure [...]
Web Directions Preparations
Published September 18th, 2008 in Uncategorized, tagged: moltnWD, wds08 0 CommentsIt’s Web Directions time again! Man, I love this conference.
I’ve been to Web Directions for the last couple of years and every time I walk away with not only new ideas, but renewed enthusiasm to get stuff done and innovate. (That’s not to say that stuff will actually get done, but it feels great!) [...]
