Any news from Rich Web Experience or JSF One?
DaveKlein
at RichWeb. Was anyone else here able to make it? Please tell the
rest of us how it went. What were your favorite sessions? Were you
there for JSFOne or RichWeb or both? Inquiring minds (not to mention
jealous ones) want to know. :-)
Dave
Jared Richardson
The conference was great and huge. It had both Rich Web and JSF One in
the same facility... there were 350 attendees there and 9 talks in
every slot! This was the first time I helped Jay behind the scenes,
delivering slides, setting up, tearing down, etc... there's a lot more
work going on than I thought!
About half the speakers were NFJS regulars, from Neal Ford to Ken Sipe
to Scott Davis to Nate Schutta.
I didn't realize that JSF was doing so well, but apparently it has a
healthy following. Seam also seemed to be coming on strong.
Because I was working the front desk I didn't get to make it into a
single session. :( But the reviews seemed to show everyone was happy. :)
Hurricane Hanna blew through on Saturday, which meant lots of wind and
rain, but nothing serious. But Jay held off on giving out the $200
gift certificates until Saturday, so we still had good numbers despite
the weather. :)
The British Royal Marines and Navy were in the hotel for a conference.
Apparently they were the "Joint Strike Force", or JSF. :) As a result,
we had a lot of people asking for a free stuff because it said JSF on
it. :) I turned down a commodore before I realized exactly what a
commodore in the British navy was... another commodore I talked to
commanded ~all~ the people in the British navy. Oops! So much for my
contribution to foreign relations. :)
All in all, it was a great conference though. I got to meet a lot of
new people and having the two conferences really seemed to feed a ton
of cross pollination. I worked harder at this conference than I every
have at any conference and didn't get to do the fun things like the
speaker's dinner, but it was worth it. At the front desk you get to
meet everyone, not just your class attendees. I also got to give one
of the closing keynotes, my Career 2.0 talk, and that was also fun. I
put in the groups URL in the slides as a way to get involved and start
writing.
Jared
Jared Richardson
few more people.
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On Sep 6, 2008, at 3:44 PM, DaveKlein <kickindownth...@gmail.com
Joe Sondow
wandering into the JSF sessions.
My favorite talk was Jared Richardson's closing keynote "Career 2.0"
which had less to do with front-end development than any other talk
but was absolutely inspiring. Jared, I know you'll read this sooner or
later, so let me tell you that I loved Ship It, and I think you should
write the Career 2.0 talk into a book. But shop around for a better
title. I'm weary of "two point oh" gags.
Of the regular sessions my favorites were:
David Verba's "Practical Design for Developers" which I plan to show
to my company so we can start figuring out how to achieve and maintain
good usability.
Stuart Halloway taught me JavaScript at NFJS in 2006. He exited the
public speaking for a while, and is now making his triumphant return
to the speaker circuit. I saw his sessions "Proto/taculous 1: Building
Ajax Applications", "Proto/taculous 2: Tips and Tricks", and best of
all "Refactoring JavaScript" which just happened to include a rational
approach to unit testing JavaScript. Anything Stuart has to say is
generally worth hearing, and he's hilarious. (Jay, why is no one
videotaping these guys?)
The other really cool session was Douglas Crockford's session
"JavaScript: The Good Parts" which showed me how to do private
variables in JavaScript, and why the wrong code style can break a
JavaScript program.
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Jared Richardson
On Sep 7, 2008, at 12:23 AM, Joe Sondow wrote:
>
> My favorite talk was Jared Richardson's closing keynote "Career 2.0"
> which had less to do with front-end development than any other talk
> but was absolutely inspiring.
Thanks!
> Jared, I know you'll read this sooner or
> later, so let me tell you that I loved Ship It, and I think you should
> write the Career 2.0 talk into a book. But shop around for a better
> title. I'm weary of "two point oh" gags.
Having heard the talk, what direction would you take it? We floated
several ideas around when we started the book, but the 'Career 2.0'
moniker seemed to resonate. It's definitely overdone, but it's a self-
explanatory title, which I like. But we're open to suggestions.
Also, we've got a blog up that we'll use to float ideas and book
topics as we go. Sorry about the name. :) http://career20.blogspot.com/
Jared