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Upcoming Conferences I’m Attending
ExpressionEngine CodeIgniter Conference
May 31st — June 2nd
Admission courtesy of Westminster, I’ve heard nothing but good things about it from the EE community. Some of the SF Bay EE Meetup group will be presenters such as Pixel and Tonic’s Brandon Kelly and Kenny Meyers.
April 24th — April 25th
Hopefully, with this conference and the 1-day training I’m taking the day before… I will be on the fast track down the jQuery ninja path. Resig will be there along with the other masters, so hopefully this will build on the work I’ve already put into learning jQuery.
+ More...Google Buzz Love
So I just got back from the GTUG event for Google Buzz featuring Googler, DeWitt Clinton. It’s certainly not perfect but I’m sold now that I understand how it best fits into my social hemisphere.
I struck up a conversation with Louis Gray and he gave me a demo of how he uses it along with answering some of my questions. Basically, this is how I understand Google Buzz:
It’s FriendFeed in a place you already go to (gmail) that handles content/media better (allows comments and handles images/video better) and is build on open technology.
+ More...Cheesy iMovie Music Video
I haven’t used iMovie in years… and the result is abominable (as well as the singing and dancing). Watch at your own risk.
+ More...Douglas Crockford — Javascript Pimp
I attend part 2 of the 5 part free Douglas Crockford Javascript lecture series at Yahoo! that can be found here. It was worth the appearance on a Friday night as part 2-3 focus on the “meat” of Javascript. Being a non-guru, this is most interesting to me as of the moment. I imagine that the “ninjas” as Crockford calls them will love the forward looking part 4 and 5 of the series…
+ More...Sneak Peek
Today, Westminster launched a website for one of our clients — SFCPA. Here is a sneak peek at it. Will follow up at Westminster where we will hopefully do a case-study of some sort.
+ More...The Future of the Interwebz
I attended another lecture at Google with the founders of Ajaxian, Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith — who were to discuss the future of the web. Honestly, they basically talked about some mobile, HTML 5 and some programming frameworks basically. They feel the mobile web will be tremendously fascinating as it will have the most potential. They both liked where javascript was going with jQuery taking the lead and both worked together at Mozilla labs on Bespin which runs on the holy canvas tag. For those of you who don’t know, Bespin is a Mozilla Lab web code editor that exists and lives in the cloud…
+ More...Visiting the Google Mothership
I attended the latest GTUG (Google User Technology Group) event and was saddened to hear that the speaker for the night was injured in a bike accident. I hope he’s OK. This meeting was supposed to be about Google’s new real-time search features and mobile search (features debuted around December 7th of last year).
OOCSS Article
So I wrote the article and now I feel a lot better about OOCSS. I think the main thing to take away is more flexible HTML structures and how they co-exist with CSS components. Also, localization is somewhat evil.
+ More...The Truth About Object Oriented CSS
Nicole Sullivan is a champion of Object Oriented CSS (OOCSS) and I was initially fascinated by the concept but the more I delve into here ideas and its practical applications — the less impressed I become.
+ More...Weird Pictures of Me - Part 1
I’ve been forgetting to post the Halloween costume I made for myself this year. Here I am next to some co-workers with better costumes…
Hint: I’m not a cigarette.
Answer: LLORGGE (backwards)
+ More...Designerly Holiday Cards
One of our clients sent me a very striking Kate Spade brand holiday card. It is of course a general purpose snowflake card… but it’s so well done!
+ More...BayJax With John Resig - jQuery and Javascript Testing
Attended the BayJax event with John Resig and I learned some techniques for javascript testing. A lot of it was was over my head with “deep browser tracing” and etc. but I pulled some practical lessons from it (hopefully). Above is a link to his presentation; “Understanding JavaScript Testing” - which I believe is the same or a similar presentation to what I saw last night.
Twitterers — follow John Resig @jeresig.
+ More...Wow, I REALLY Get Twitter Now
I met Pete Karl at the An Event Apart SF 09 opening night party and he told me about the A Feed Apart website his crew at Lion Burger made. The web app basically aggregates tweets with specific hashtags onto a simple to use website interface.
+ More...Eric Meyer is a Real Person
I assumed the W3C made up this “Eric Meyer” character as some sort of friendly mascot like Frosted Flakes did with Tony the Tiger to sell CSS but apparently he is a real person!
+ More...Neon Signage Typography
I always liked to see the craftsmanship on these neon signs because if you look closely — they do vary.
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