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d.Construct tomorrow | 4 Comments

Posted in Events on 11th November 2005, 12:11 am by

I’ll be driving down to the d.Construct conference in Brighton early tomorrow morning. I’m looking forward to seeing Stuart Langridge, Simon Willison and Cory Doctorow’s presentations in particular. This whole conference is about Web 2.0 and having listened to LUG Radio – season three episode 2 I think I’m in agreement that what Web 2.0 means is a whole load of different things to different people. For me Web 2.0 is really is about bringing desktop application performance to the web and using technologies such as AJAX to leverage server muscle from the client side this really becomes quite feasible.

There’ll be a chance to test out SubEthaEdit for collaborative note-taking; there is going to be free Wi-Fi at the event so that’ll be a blast. Interestingly I think the organisers are planning to answer questions from iChat/AIM so it’ll be fun to see how that works out.

If I get a chance I will post an update from the venue, but I’m there to watch and learn so I probably won’t have my head buried in my Powerbook all day long if I can help it : )

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  • http://www.clearleft.com/ Andy Budd

    Me and Jeremy did use iChat on Rendezvous for question taking at SXSW05. It worked really well as the room took about 300+ people and there was no mike for questions. People could IM us questions and we could que them up and read them out to everybody as appropriate.

  • http://www.muffinresearch.co.uk Stuart

    Taking questions from iChat/AIM is a good idea, however, to be fair I didn’t login to iChat to see if anyone was using it, but I’m guessing the smaller number of people and the mic made it unecessary.

    The thing that really worked out was using SubEthaEdit for collaborative notes. I’m fairly new to using my Mac and I’d not used SubEthaEdit since trying out as a code editor. It was great to see the notes coming together in real time. More on that in my next post.

    Thanks to you Richard and the speakers for putting d.Construct together (no pun intended), it was an enjoyable day and it’s given me some inspiration for future projects.

  • http://thedredge.org Andy Hume

    Nice to meet you the other day mate. Glad you enjoyed it all, and see you the next time – whenever that may be!

  • http://www.muffinresearch.co.uk Stuart Colville

    @Andy Hume: nice to meet you too. It was an enjoyable and informative day out, and as always it’s always good to meet up with like-minded people.

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