I left the house at 0600 on Thursday and about eighteen hours later arrived in Austin. I flew with Delta Airlines and I was fairly impressed with the hospitality. I guess I'm far too used to travelling with EasyJet on the cheap! When I got to Atlanta I got hooked…
Yesterday I went to the Carson Web Apps Summit at the Kensington Conference Centre in London. As before at d.Construct there was a collaborative note-taking session using subEthaEdit. Once again Steve Marshall did most of the work! Joshua Schacter's presentation covered his experiences in creating Del.icio.us. He…
@media2006 has been announced together with a rather tasty new website with all the details. I was at @media2005 last year and I found it to be a really inspiring event. This year (provided I get my act together in time) I will definitely be going. As a change to…
Last night I attended my first "Geek Dinner" in London. When I arrived at the Hogshead in Dering street I got myself a pint of the black stuff and shortly after the guest of honour Molly Holzschlag and Andy Clarke turned up at the bar, having come from the course…
I got down to Brighton bright and early for d.Construct Clear:left's grassroots web 2.0 conference. After being ushered in by Richard Rutter through the side door along with a couple of other early birds I sat down and booted up my powerbook to check my mail on…
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…
Registrations for d.Construct "a grass-roots Web 2.0 conference" are being taken now Sold out. Such luminaries as Andy Budd, Simon Willison and Stuart Langridge will be speaking about all things Web 2.0. There will also be a talk from Boing Boing's and EFF member Cory Doctorow on…
Day two was looking to be exactly what I was looking for from the whole experience of @Media2005. Doug Bowman kicked off with an in-depth presentation discussing the re-design of Blogger, from the processes to actual techniques used. There was a particularly great example of using CSS classes on the…