I postulate that the sequel to the new TRON film is The Terminator. Here’s the flow:
Thus the sequel to TRON is The Terminator
I was directed to a nice post today written by Shawn Kincade. Over at his blog Aspiring Business he mentions Adcuda and the tool that I built as my first internal project. The Local Search Visiblity tool was fun to build and the plans we have for version 2.0 are going to make it even better. Thanks Shawn and if any of you have a small business that could use a local boost, check out the tool at the link above.
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As expected day two didn’t quite live up to day one for me. That’s not so say it was that way for everyone. In fact I talked to several attendees who disagreed with me. That said, the highlight of the day for me was the better lunch spread and side conversations. Even with that though, the conference was well worth attending and I hope to attend next year as well.
For me I think the problem with day two wasn’t content, because the talks all had decent content, it was the dryness/lack of public speaking experience by a few of the presenters. That and the crowd new more about a subject than one of the presenters. Combine it with a general lack of concentration (and tiredness) on my part and it adds up to a slow day.
My takeaways from the conference were plentiful. I have several items to explore further and some of them will be incorporated into my workflow. The code testing talks were especially helpful. I’m not sold on coding javascript in an MVC manner but the concept was interesting.
That’s my quick and dirty wrap-up, see ya next time.
This is how a developer conference is supposed to be. I learned, I shared, I learned some more. The quality of speakers was phenomenal. It may be hard for day two to live up to the standards set, I’m not kidding.
Day one consisted of six sessions for me.
The only hiccup on the day occurred during the Test Driven Development talk when the speaker used videos to show all the code creation, not taking into account that the projector wouldn’t be bright enough to show a code editor which had a black background. This caused half the slides to be unviewable. Other than that though, everything was smooth sailing.
I suffered my own technical glitch when my Evernote app crashed on my iPad during the most interesting talk of the day. That would be the one about Contextual jQuery. I hope they release the video of that one soon because I’d like to go over it again. Some great stuff in their about traversing the DOM.
I also learned today that I have been using object oriented CSS without knowing that was what I was doing. While developing my framework for WordPress theme development I also adapted a CSS structure to help facilitate rapid development. As it turns out it “mostly” follows the norm for OOCSS. I think I may use that as a talk for the upcoming Barcamp in KC next month.
Check in tomorrow night and I’ll have a recap of day two for you.
I’ve been meaning to use this blog for something more than just a placeholder for my plugin. So while I have a few minutes sitting in an over-crowded plane, I figured no better time than the present to actually blog.
Today is a day of firsts for me. Well actually, the whole weekend will have a few firsts. First business trip with the company I work for, (Adcuda) first time at Logan Airport, First stay at an Embassy Suites, and first time attending Jquery Conference.
So what does that mean? Nothing. Just thought I’d share. If you stick around I may even be adding things on a regular basis. Thing like WordPress coding tips, maybe some HTML5, CSS3, so, pretty much developer stuff. See ya next time.