Conferences I attended.
6 August 2010
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The Fronteers 2010 conference has announced two new speakers: Jake Archibald of the BBC’s Glow library, and Stoyan Stefanov of Yahoo!
Thus the speakers’ list is continuing to grow, and the conference is becoming more and more worth your € 375. What are you waiting for? Order your ticket now!
On 21 and 22 October the first Front Trends conference will take place in Warsaw. I will be speaking there; I’ll talk about JSON over SMS and other exciting marriages of web and mobile.
Tickets are inexpensive, not to say bloody cheap. € 198 to see a lot of good speakers (Douglas Crockford, Tantek Çelik, Dmitry Baranovskiy of Rafael.js, plenty of others) is not expensive.
So if you’re in the neighbourhood, why not join us in Warsaw? As of this writing there are still tickets available.
On 7 and 8 October Fronteers 2010 will take place in Amsterdam. Three more speakers and one more workshop have been announced, and the early bird period will end next Wednesday, at the end of June.
The three speakers are Brad Neuberg, who will talk about SVG, and Steve Faulkner and Hans Hillen, who will talk about doing HTML5 the accessible way: with ARIA.
Dan Rubin will be giving a workshop “Bringing Your Design to Life with CSS3” on Tuesday 5 October, two days before the conference.
Right now a conference ticket for two days is still only € 275. These prices will go up next Thursday, though. A workshop ticket for Dan Rubin or Andy Clarke will remain € 350 So what are you waiting for? Buy one! (Or two, or five.)
(Fronteers members should not use the general ticket sale page. Instead, they have gotten a mail with special instructions for obtaining an extra discount.)
I hope to see some of my readers at Fronteers 2010.
I’ve published my Samsung bada/HTML5 apps presentation of yesterday. People who religiously follow my presentation will not find much new stuff in there, except maybe that I made the case for a change of app monetisation more forcefully than before.
Next Thursday there’s a bada developer day in Amsterdam, co-sponsored by Vodafone, at which I’ll speak. Entrance is free, although registration is required so that the organisers know how many people will be coming.
Just like last year, Fronteers, the Dutch association of front-end engineers, is organising a conference, and it looks quite good. For me personally the best part is that I don’t have to do a thing; contrary to the last two years I’m not involved in the organisation at all, and just have to show up and have a good time.
We’re especially pleased to be able to announce Brendan Eich, inventor of JavaScript and technical architect for the Mozilla project.
Fronteers 2010 will take place on 7 and 8 October in Tuschinski in Amsterdam. Early-bird tickets are € 275; around the end of June the price will go up.
I have posted my DIBI slides (PDF; 1,8Meg). It was a fun conference, and my presentation went well. Web developers clearly want to know about mobile.
The talks also seem to have been broadcast and taped; will let you know when they appear online.
Fronteers 2010 has been announced: 7 and 8 October, Amsterdam. Jeremy Keith and Jeff Croft have been announced as speakers. Ticket sale will start in April at the latest.
For clarity's sake: this year I have nothing to do with the organisation; I'll just attend the conference, relax, enjoy the show, as well as a beer or two.
Maybe I'll meet some of my readers at Fronteers 2010.
Well, a new year has started, and it’s tradition to give an overview of where you’re standing. So here’s mine.
As longtime readers may remember, I was totally burned out at the end of both 2007 and 2008. I’m happy to report that that trend has been broken; although I was glad to have a little holiday at the end of 2009, I returned to work without noticeable problems. So that’s good.
However, I have decided that certain aspects of my professional life are in need of a change; notably my public speaking and my compatibility tables.
I’ve now uploaded both my Fronteers 2009 and my Full Frontal 2009 presentations to both Slideshare and QuirksMode. The two presentations are the same for about 60%, the rest is different, mainly because I had less time at Full Frontal and it was a JavaScript conference. Therefore I added a bit about JavaScript performance and removed quite a few subjects I discussed at Fronteers 2009, including, sadly, the nice historical intro.
Well, Fronteers 2009 was an astounding success if the Twitterfeed is to be believed. That’s good because it cost us an astounding time to arrange it all.
When we sold out Fronteers 2009 in September we loudly proclaimed that no more tickets were to be had. Point is: we weren't entirely truthful. There still are two tickets available. They're even free. You just have to do something in order to get them.
You can find more details on the Fronteers site.
15 September 2009
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Now follows the most anti-climactic speaker announcement ever. We’ve got tons of new excellent speakers to announce for Fronteers 2009, such as Dion and Ben from Ajaxian, Chris Heilmann, Pete LePage, and Stephen Hay, but we’re about sold out. If you don’t have a ticket already you can’t come and see them.
The full list of Fronteers 2009 speakers has been published, and as you can see this promises to be quite a conference. I like the line-up, if I may say so myself.
We’re almost sold out. Currently ticket sale has been halted while we figure out exactly how many tickets we can still sell. We expect a very few tickets (less than 10) to be released somewhere next week. When these are gone we’re completely sold out. Price is € 350, there are no more discounts, and there is no way of reserving tickets beforehand.
The release will be announced at our @fronteers09 Twitter feed first.
I hope to meet some of my readers at Fronteers 2009.
Meanwhile, if you don’t have a Fronteers ticket but still want to see Chris Heilmann or me speak, as well as a load of other JavaScript people, head over to Brighton to Full Frontal. 20 November, ticket is £ 100 now.
29 June 2009
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As I announced earlier the Fronteers 2009 conference will be held in Amsterdam on the 5th and 6th of November. Today we announce two speakers, and we also have extended the early bird period by one week (ends 10th of July instead of 3rd). The conference will be held entirely in English.
Just as we did last year, Fronteers, the organisation of front-end engineers in the Netherlands, organises a front-end conference. Ticket sale has started, and two more speakers have been announced.
The Fronteers 2009 conference will be held on 5th and 6th of November in Amsterdam. In addition to Nate Koechley and Steve Souders , John Resig of jQuery and Nicole Sullivan will join us to discuss JavaScript libraries and object-oriented CSS, respectively. The line-up will consist of twelve world-class speakers; the other eight will be announced later.
Ticket sale has started; currently we’re in the early bird period that will expire on the 3rd of July. A two-day ticket costs € 250; a one-day ticket € 175.
Additional discounts are available for Fronteers members (who have meanwhile received a mail), and Dutch educational institutions.
The conference is sponsored by Vodafone, and we’re currently negotiating with other potential sponsors.
I hope to see some of you at Fronteers 2009!
4 May 2009
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Phew, the last two weeks have been a blast, but also a bit tiring. I went on a visit to San Francisco in order to speak at the Voices That Matter Web Design Conference, and since I was in town anyway both Yahoo! and Google invited me to do a tech talk. I returned home on Friday, and on Saturday I spoke at the Amsterdam Widget Dev Camp organised by Vodafone NL. Fun, but wearing.
As you may know by now, I’m currently heavily engaged inW3C Widgets research, so it’s no surprise that three out of four of my presentations treated this topic. As usual I’ve put the slides online.
28 April 2009
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I've just put my Voices That Matter presentation online (PDF, 600K); and I've also published it on Slideshare.
This presentation overlaps with my recent Yahoo! one for about 40%, and it's somewhat more basic. (Still, it was the most advanced JavaScript presentation at the conference.)
By the way, the good people at Yahoo! have already published the video of my presentation; including a complete transcript (it's odd to read through it).
As I said during my VTM presentation, the Yahoo! one contains the solution to the focus/blur event delegation thing, as well as some information on events in the mobile browsers.
25 April 2009
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The slides of my Google presentation are now online (PDF, 841K).
This presentation, too, has been taped and will be published online. I'll let you know when that happens.
I also caved in to Jon Boutelle's peer pressure and now publish my slideshows on Slideshare.net; including this one.
24 April 2009
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The slides of my Yahoo! presentation on JavaScript Events are online (PDF, 1.7M).
The presentation has been taped and will eventually be published online; I'll let you know when that happens.
13 April 2009
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I’m pleased to announce that Google has graciously agreed to sponsor my work on my compatibility tables. We’ve entered an agreement for this year; after that we’ll see what happens.
Therefore, if you go to the compatibility tables now, you’ll see a tasteful little sponsor bar at the bottom of every page with a well-known logo in it.
After the success that was Fronteers 2008, Fronteers lost no time in starting up preparations for the next edition of our conference.
Fronteers 2009 will be held on Thursday 5th and Friday 6th of November in Felix Meritis, Amsterdam. Just like last year, it will have a stellar line-up of Dutch and foreign speakers. Please jot down these dates in your agenda; you wouldn’t want to miss this one.
29 October 2008
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Yesterday I did my first five-hour workshop at the Fundamentos Web conference in Gijón. It went well, I think, even though today my legs still hurt a bit from standing up so much.
As I think I said before, five of the eight sessions of the second day of Fronteers 2008 have been taped.
The videos are done now; you can watch them on the bachelor-ict site (these are the people who organised, and paid for, the actual taping).
On the front page you find short interviews with most of our speakers. The purple blocks say "Bekijk de presentatie", which means "View presentation", and you have to click on those links to access the actual presentations.
The presentations of Pete LePage, Raph de Rooij, Chris Heilmann and Stuart Langridge are available. In addition, you can watch the panel that Bruce Lawson and Vasilis van Gemert did on the homepage.
Happy watching.
Well, one more conference done and dusted, and The Ajax Experience was definitely fun to do, not least because it allowed me to return to Boston.
Currently I’m sitting in the hotel bar with a few hours to kill, so this is as good a time as any for some impressions:
1 October 2008
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Yesterday I gave my State of the Browsers presentation at The Ajax Experience in Boston. Here are the slides (PDF, 2MB).
26 September 2008
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The Fundamentos del Web conference has invited me to hold a JavaScript workshop in Gijón, Spain, on 28 October. This will be a full-day workshop in which I'll discuss intermediate and advanced JavaScript topics.
16 September 2008
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Wow, it’s over. I created a first class web conference. Of course I borrowed heavily from the @media plan, which I now thorougly understand after five visits. But still, I’m happy — and exhausted.
Some random impressions:
With three days to go before Fronteers 2008, we still have some tickets left. Why not join
Dean Edwards,
Andy Clarke,
Chris Heilmann,
Bert Bos,
Stuart Langridge,
Stephen Hay,
and Pete LePage of the MSIE team
in Amsterdam this Thursday and Friday? It promises to be two days full of front-end geekery.
(speakers' list)
You can still buy yourself a ticket (English page; includes bug, for which my sincere apologies).
Everything’s set up now; to my own surprise I have very little left to organise, which I think means I did a good job during the last months. I hadn’t really expected that, but I’m grateful even for small favours.
See you at Fronteers 2008.
25 August 2008
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The preparations for Fronteers 2008 proceed apace; it’s likely to become an excellent conference. (Amsterdam, 11 and 12 September.)
Ticket sale has meanwhile started; unfortunately there’s a bug in the English version that requires everybody to use the Dutch one I linked to. My apologies for the bug, but this is something the ticket system vendor has to solve (and is solving, if rumours are to be believed).
Unfortunately we had one cancellation: Nate Koechley had a clash of schedules. Fortunately Andy Clarke and Anne van Kesteren have agreed to host sessions (on CSS positioning and the <video> element in HTML5, respectively), so I believe the conference will survive Nate’s absence.
I personally am swamped in work (if you think organising a conference is something you do in your spare time I advise you to upgrade your brain), but I believe the main thrust is behind me now. With only a few relatively minor things to arrange it looks as if the conference is set to go.
Hope to see you there.
4 August 2008
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It is with pardonable pride that Fronteers announces its second yearly conference: Fronteers 2008.
29 June 2008
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In this entry I give some impressions of AEA Boston, as well as an attempt to compare the current web dev world with the old potlatch system.
I just finished my An Event Apart Boston presentation on unbostrusive JavaScript, and as usual I'm posting my slides here.
Here they are (PDF, about 400K).
It’s nearly 1am now, and this is the only time slot I have available for a blog post about the two conferences I attended this week. Besides, I’m going on holiday in a few hours and it’s my unfailing habit to point that out here—and the fact that we have to be at the airport at the ungodly hour of 5am means that I’m not going to sleep tonight.
So let’s get it out of the way: I will be on holiday on Zakynthos, Greece, from 2 to 16 June, and it seems likely I’ll be completely unreachable during that time.
I’m hardly yet in a holiday mood; yesterday I returned from London at 11pm, still slightly the worse for wear after I’d spent the afternoon sipping pints with Dean Edwards, and today I had to do a lot of boring-but-necessary pre-holiday things such as finances, dropping stuff off, sending vital mails etc.
But I’m digressing. Let’s talk about conferences instead.
I went to two; Kings of Code in Amsterdam, a first-timer I spoke at; and the annual pilgrimage to @media 2008 in London, where I once more met a few of my British friends (and pints).
Just now I posted the (Dutch) slides of my JavaScript Events presentation at Kings of Code.
Download them here. PDF file; about 620K.
I want to repeat this presentation in English at some conference somewhere, but I don't yet have specific plans. So if you can't read Dutch you'll have to have some patience.
Next month will be a busy, conference- and travel-rich month. September will be exactly the same, but fortunately I've got some spare time in between (time that I'm going to need for my next big project).
Before revealing my exact schedule, I've got a new speaking gig to announce: The Ajax Experience, September 29th to October 1st, Boston. I will present the "State of the Browsers" session, in which I'm going to discuss the failings of modern browsers when it comes to DOM support, as well as quizzing a few framework authors about their handling of browser incompatibilities. It's going to be huge fun and I'm looking forward to it.
Yesterday I gave my first ever conference presentation in Dutch at the Pfcongrez, the annual conference of the PHP Freakz, the largest Dutch organisation for PHP programmers.
The presentation went well; I talked about the principles of unobtrusive JavaScript and it turned out that this concept was new to many attendees. I hope to have made a difference somewhere.
As I think I said before, I'll arrive in Austin only on Saturday afternoon. I've been very lazy this year and have made absolutely zero plans. However, I'd like to kick off my personal SxSW experience by having a relaxed beer in The Ginger Man from about 5 to at least 7 pm. I'm already supposed to meet some people there, but by this entry I'd like to extend the invitation to anyone who's interested (or who wants beer).
Hope to see you there.
Quite frankly, I haven't yet done very much this year. In the middle of last December I was overtaken by an acute case of severe stress (I posted a rambling entry at that time). Fortunately my planning called for a holiday at that point in time, but what I hadn't expected is that, even after three weeks of complete rest and no email, I still wouldn't be able to restart working.
As a result, I didn't do even 20 % of what I planned doing during January and February. Meanwhile I'm beyond apologising. Such things happen.
I may ignore the world, but the world still expects things of me. More precisely, it expects me to be present at no less than seven conferences between now and July. I hope that visiting these conferences will be what I need to get my act together again, especially since I have to speak at only three of them.
See my schedule for an (as yet un-microformatted) overview.
On 23 or 24 June I'm going to speak at An Event Apart Boston. If you're interested in meeting me in person, be there.
I'm going to talk about the principle of unobtrusive JavaScript (details forthcoming). This session likely won't be of huge interest to people already fluent in JavaScript, but it might help those who are considering the plunge into our beautiful language. I won't teach you how JavaScript works (one hour is far too short for that), but if you keep the principles I'll discuss in mind, you'll likely find the correct answers to many tricky questions by yourself.
I hope to meet a few of my readers there.
Well, @media Ajax has been an excellent conference. In fact, it was the best conference I've attended so far (OK, I haven't attended that many, but still). The main reasons for its excellence were the tight focus on one single subject, coupled to a stellar-class line-up of speakers (including humble me). I mean, at which other conference would we have had the opportunity to see Brendan Eich shoot screaming monkeys into the audience and Douglas Crockford admit that maybe (just maybe) JavaScript is slightly less misunderstood than it was a few years ago?
28 October 2007
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Yesterday morning I returned from my first visit to San Francisco, where I delivered my first real solo presentation at the Voices that Matter: Web Design conference, as well as visiting Yahoo! and wandering around town a bit. All in all it was a wonderful experience.
Just now I finished my presentation at the Voices that Matter conference in San Francisco. At the request of New Riders and my audience, I've put the slides online (as a PDF).
Maybe this notice is a bit late, but next Tuesday I'll hop on board the plane that will take me to San Francisco for a ten day stay (Wed. 17th to Fri. 26th).
I've never been there before (in fact, this will be only the second time I visit the US), and I'm very curious about this great city where everybody's rumoured to talk about CSS all the time, which is supposed to be quite a bit like Amsterdam (at least, that's what a San Franciscan once told me), and whose praises have been sung many times over, even though the requirement to put flowers in your hair seems to have been scrapped somewhere during the Reagan administration.
The @media Ajax schedule has been unveiled, and my my, has Patrick managed to gather carloads of JavaScript excellence. Brendan Eich, Douglas Crockford, Derek Featherstone, John Resig, Stuart "I give everyone a weird middle name" Langridge, and last but not least Jeremy Keith for a bit of panel moderation. Early bird registration is still possible until the end of the month, so I advise you to purchase your tickets in the next few days.
21 August 2007
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Just as last year, I've got a session planned for SxSW 2008. Its title is "In Praise of Elitism", and of course I hope that my readers will vote for me so that I get free entrance to SxSW.
Well, another year, another @media. As usual I loved the conference, as well as meeting old friends and making new ones. I didn't drink quite as much beer as last year; I'm not yet sure why (and no, it's not because I'm getting old; I feel younger with every passing day and will pretty quickly re-enter adolescence). In any case, it was more than worth it and I'm looking forward to next year's edition (and, of course, to @media Ajax).
At the tail end of @media 2007 Europe, Patrick Griffiths announced a brand new conference at which I'm going to speak:
@media Ajax, 19 and 20 November 2007 in London.
As I think I said before, I'm becoming addicted to public speaking. Therefore I was very glad when New Riders/Peachpit invited me to speak at their Voices that Matter: Web Design Conference, 22-25th of October.
19 March 2007
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There's one aspect of SxSW that I didn't discuss in my previous entry: the reason why I went to only a few parties. Most nights I was back in my hotel around 11:00. That's not really sociable, is it? Unfortunately I was unable to attend most parties BECAUSE OF THE FUCKING NOISE.
I'm wondering if it would be at all possible to just turn off the LOUD BACKGROUND MUSIC at conference parties.
Wow, what shall I say?
SxSW 2007 was awesome, but also just the tiniest bit intimidating. Why intimidating? Because it was so HUGE. I expected it to be larger than @media, but I didn't expect it to be nearly eight times as large, and the fact that it was has hampered my efficiency a bit. I haven't talked to nearly half the people I wanted to talk to (sorry, guys), because I kept saying "OK, I'll have to rush now; catch you later", but when later came around I couldn't catch them because they were at another party, or maybe at their hotel, or whatever.
Here you can leave comments about my presentation "JavaScript: The Big Divide" that I just finished.
See also the slides.
While visiting SxSW I'll also sign copies of the book for anyone who's interested. The signing session will take place on Saturday 10 March at 4:30 at the Adobe Day Stage Café.
While I'm there I'm also planning to pick up signed copies of Transcending CSS by Andy Clarke, Javascript and Ajax for the Web by Dori Smith and Tom Negrino, Bulletproof Ajax by Jeremy Keith, CSS Mastery by Andy Budd, and probably a few other interesting books.
I'll see some of you there.
As I posted before I'll be in Austin on Thursday, and I'll be looking for something to do. Meanwhile two get-togethers have been organised:
I hope to see some of my Austin-based readers there; and maybe a few others who, like me, have decided to arrive early for SxSW.
27 February 2007
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In exactly a week I'll be flying to Austin for my first SxSW. My session JavaScript: the Big Picture will take place on Monday at 4:05pm in Ballroom F (whatever that may be; I assume a gentle SxSW employee will patiently explain where to find it). See this entry for details on my panel.
I'll be in Austin a few days before SxSW starts, and I'll leave a few days after it ends. Which brings me to my main point: will anyone be in Austin on Wednesday 7th and/or Thursday 8th and feel like meeting up? If you do, please leave a comment below. I'll be staying in the Driskill Hotel (not sure if that matters, but anyway).
3 February 2007
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I suddenly realised I hadn't yet officially announced that my presentation "JavaScript: the Big Picture" has been accepted by SxSW. It will run on Monday 12th of March in the afternoon, and it will be a 25 minute power session. I already wrote about the topics I want to treat. Right now I plan to talk for a maximum of 10 minutes, after which a discussion is supposed to fill the remaining 15 minutes. My plans may change, though.
11 October 2006
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SxSW's second round of panel picking is closing this Friday. If you want to give me free admission, please vote for my panel "JavaScript: The Big Picture" in the education/sociological and hacks/programming categories. An earlier entry already talked about the stuff I want to discuss during this panel.
Hope to see you at SxSW.
25 September 2006
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Next March I'll be heading off to Austin to be at SxSW. Thrifty as always, I'm looking for ways and means of getting free admission, and the most obvious solution was to send in a panel proposal. Since this year SxSW allows people to vote for panels they'd like to see, you should vote for me if you'd like to hear me speak about JavaScript (and get me a free ticket). The panel is called "JavaScript: the Big Picture" and it's somewhere near the top of the list in SxSW's Panel Picker.
30 August 2006
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Although I'm almost ready with the promised redesign of QuirksMode.org, I'm nonetheless going to postpone it. There are two reasons:
23 June 2006
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The Hot Topics panel that closed the conference featured one excellent question that set me thinking about socio-political questions:
Isn't the recent mass movement of high-profile web designers to large companies like Yahoo and Google a little worrying in terms of objectivity and in terms of creativity?
You can read the discussion that followed in the transcript, but my own thoughts went in a slightly different direction.
The conference was split into two tracks, and there have been quite a few discussions about whether this was a good idea. I think it is because it allows for more specialisation. In any case, here are a few notes on some of the presentations I attended.
20 June 2006
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Well, I'm back from @media, and it was as wonderful as last year. I met lots of interesting people, talked about lots of geeky stuff, drank the amount of beer required by British law, and went on stage at a web conference for the first time—but I hope not for the last.
In a few hours I'll hop aboard the train to London in order to visit @media, where I'll be part of the Friday 10:30 JavaScript panel, as well as of the general setting of the conference. No doubt I'll meet some of my readers there; you can recognize me by the folded browser under my left arm.
As usual this site is closed down during my stay in London; anything that needs my personal intervention will have to wait until I return on Sunday, especially the five or six bug reports that came in during the past few days.
Meanwhile, if you have an itch to say something, help me find out more about Ajax Use Patterns, or suggest JavaScript fixes for IE 7. Comments on that last entry are under moderation by now, but I'll approve them as soon as I get back.
Please pull your agendas and make a note: @media 2006 will take place on 15 and 16 June in London. Be there.
Last Sunday the Amsterdam JavaScript meeting was a moderate success. Among others, Bobby van der Sluis, Anne van Kesteren and Faruk Ateş attended, and we had some interesting discussions.
16 June 2005
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Op zondag 26 juni vanaf 15:00 uur vindt er te Amsterdam een kleine JavaScript bijeenkomst plaats, georganiseerd door Bobby van der Sluis en mezelf.
Er is geen echt programma; we gaan gewoon wat met elkaar drinken, wat over JavaScript praten en we zien verder wel wat er uit komt.
Locatie: Café De Jaren, Nieuwe Doelenstraat 20-22, Amsterdam, vlakbij de Munt. Tram 4, 9, 16, 24 of 25 vanaf het Centraal Station, bij de Munt uitstappen, links de brug over de smalle straat in en dan kom je er vanzelf.
Ik hoop daar een paar van mijn Nederlandstalige lezers te treffen.
The JavaScript revolution started on Saturday 11 June at about 3pm (16:00 Central European time) in a fitting setting: a smoky London pub cellar that contained most of the UK's strategic beer reserve. If you weren't there, don't worry, you'll have plenty of chances to join us. In fact, we need you.
What we basically agreed on is that we need to get the word out. JavaScript is ready for its proper role in modern, standards based websites. During the conference we found plenty of evidence that there is much interest in JavaScript, if only people could get more help and more explanations.
Wow.
@media 2005 was far, far more interesting than I'd expected, and I had high hopes to begin with. I met a lot of interesting and nice people, I was pleasantly astonished by the number of people that know my work, and I found distinct, unmistakable evidence that JavaScript is emerging from the wilderness and is ready to play its proper role in modern, standards based web development, even though its relation to accessibility has to be re-thought from the ground up.
@media was more than great: it was necessary. Patrick Griffiths, thank you for making all this possible. See you next year.
Next Thursday and Friday I will attend the @media 2005 conference in London, where I hope to meet a few Web development luminaries like Jeffrey Zeldman, Joe Clark, Douglas Bowman, and many others, not to mention a few of my readers.
In addition, Dean Edwards, Jeremy Keith, Stuart Langridge, Simon Willison and myself will meet on Saturday 11 June for an informal JavaScript get-together, to which you, too, are invited.
There seems to have been a (badly covered) "Ajax Summit" organised by O'Reilly and Adaptive Path. Could be interesting. Scott Andrew has the details.
Just now I registered for the @media 2005 Web Standards & Accessibility conference held in London on 9 and 10 June. Maybe I'll meet some of my readers there.
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