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05.03.10DIBI Conference 2010Time for another conference road trip! The inaugural DIBI Conference took place at the Sage in Gatehead on the 28th April, with a fantastic crop of speakers and promising bunch of attendees, judging by the twittering. DIBI's format is a little different than a traditional conference, being a two track event. DIBI, which stands for Design It. Build It., was aimed at both developers and designers, with two sets of sessions running all day. Attendees could chop and change and "jump tracks" as they liked, and since a lot of the crowd were front enders, this seems quite a logical thing to do. The journey ...
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02.17.10Speak the Web Liverpool — post match reactionI'm really pleased to say that the whole Liverpool session of Speak The Web went down really well. I managed to get through 30 minutes without committing social hari kari or making too bigger tit of myself. Pat Lauke was in full on Opera and HTML5 brainwash form, but energetic and interesting enough to be different from Chris Mill's session at Leeds. The coup de grâce was obviously Simon Collison of Erskine Design, with his In the Pursuit of Magic presentation, and fair play to him for being drugged up but persevering and putting on a really thoughtful and inspiring presentation. Continue ...
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01.30.10Transmission #3: ‘Device & Conquer: Tales from the front-line of mobile innovation’A Thursday night out? Drinking? …Again? But wait, you were out on Monday night too… what gives, Smith? Ok, I will come clean. Monday's drinking was less about the drinking (hah!) and more about talking with Chris Mills and Patrick Lauke about presenting, presentation material and subjects around validation and general geekiness. We did not at one point mention any rumour or conjecture about the iPad, which I feel is very important to mention. Leffe and Hoegaarden were order of the evening! However the Transmission 3 (#tx3) event was different. It was all about the mobile web, the pleasure and the pain of ...
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01.18.10I’ll be at Speak The WebI'm honoured to have been invited to speak at an upcoming web "gig", by my two mates Rich Clarke and Dan Donald. Speak The Web aims to break down the barriers that prevent a lot of people getting to the bigger conferences. Travel, time off work, hotels and the bar bill can all be quite prohibitive, so the lads have started a grass roots collective of local talent and are hitting four venues in the North. Being a scouser, they asked me if I'd be interested in the Liverpool venue, and of course I said yes. The tickets are all very reasonably priced, ...
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06.23.09Now on dev.opera!Finally, just a shade over six months after being propositioned by the mighty Chris Mills to do some writing, my article is online! The site, dev.opera.com is a resource aimed squarely at people who are web-literate and happy to get their hands dirty in code. However it's quite techy, and not too design-led, either theory or practice. Chris asked me to get involved and write an article that fused a bit of design know-how with technical ability, and since we'd just finished the GDR Creative Intelligence web site at work, which features sIFR heavily, I thought sIFR would be an ideal candidate. The ...
