The almost-annual Geek In The Park get-together takes place this Saturday (15th August) in Leamington Spa. I will be hammering on about Nailing Your Own Projects, and Remy will be probing HTML5 and Friends. If you can make it, we’d all love to see you, even if - like my good self - you hate the idea of being a “geek”. Still, it trumps “nerd”. Or “spod”.
Yesterday I was very fortunate to speak at @Media 2009 alongside Andy Clarke, Jon Hicks, Dan Rubin, Mark Boulton and Jason Santa Maria. It’s been a fun but intense few days. Here’s a summary - a bit rushed as I’m somewhat knackered.
The Netherlands (Leiden specifically) will be like some sort of EE honeypot on 22nd and 23rd October 2009, for the inaugural ExpressionEngine & CodeIgniter Conference (EECI2009). Here’s a bit more detail…
It’s turning into a busy speaking year. As well as a few business and university talks, I recently presented as part of the Future Of Web Apps Tour, which went down a treat. I’ve got @Media coming up in a couple of weeks, and something special in October (more soon).
A week or so back, shortly after bringing Erskine Socials into the world, we quietly (finally) launched our shared blog, named Erskine Labs. As I explain in the introductory post...
Our Erskine Socials will be an umbrella for a variety of meet-ups; a series of occasional discussions, talks and events for web designers, developers and beer drinkers from Nottingham and beyond.
Last month’s .net magazine (Practical Web Design outside the UK) featured a smashing two-page interview and profile of us fine folks.
I’m now providing my own short URLs for all posts on this here blog (you’ll see one just above the title), essentially divorcing myself from all those third-party link shortening services. This post briefly describes the problem, and provides an EE plugin to enable your own short links with ease.
Extra bit of speaking news. I’ll be presenting Knowing Your Audience on the Leeds leg of the freshly-announced Future Of Web Apps Tour, landing in Yorkshire on 28th May 2009. The tour also takes in Edinburgh, Bristol and Cambridge. Hoping I genuinely get picked up in a double-decker bus, but more likely it’ll be the train. See you there?
Having read the thing cover-to-cover over the weekend, I was just about to write a detailed post about my friend Mark Boulton’s new PDF book A Practical Guide to Designing for the Web (available from today).
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