Web Standards Conferences 2006
Well, I can’t afford South By South West as air fares are out of the question, so it’s a choice between @media 2006 which has a great line up of speakers (including Gez Lemon and Patrick Lauke - yay!) and Jeremy Keith’s Ajax workshop. It’s a bloody hard choice.
Something that John Oxton wrote resonated with me:
I don’t do JavaScript so the question is simple, is that a hole in my skill set as a “front end” designer, or, in this day and age, is it a specialist subject which—whilst I can happily enjoy it as a hobby — is best left to the professionals who know their DHTML onions?
and I’ve come to the conclusion that I need to be able to write a bit of JavaScript rather than just pontificate about it.
So I’m off to hear Jeremy Keith speak, even though he threatened to take out a restraining order on me because, much as I love his book (and still need to get round to reviewing it), I learn best by doing rather than just reading, and like the idea of a Workshop where I can just put my hand up and ask the teacher. He’s a witty and engaging speaker from what I saw of him at @media 2005.
Plus, having banged on about “Hijax“, I need to make sure that I really understand it before berating colleagues about it.
Are you going? Let me know!
Stop press 9 Jan. A charming mystery benefactor has signed me up for@media, too. Yay! See you there.
Accommodation in London
I commented on a post on Christian Heillman’s site and thought I’d post it here, too. My mystery benefactor is paying for my hotel room for @media, but if you’re looking for decent accommodation in London, I can recommend the Luna and Simone Hotel in Pimlico (10 minutes walk from Victoria Station, which is two tube stops from Westminster). £50 for an ensuite bedroom, with a cooked-to-order English breakfast. I’ve no connection to the place, and YMMV, but it’s where I stay in central Lahndahn if I’m using my own money.
but you ARE coming to @media, are you not? c’mon, we can make johnny wankmag and “if that’s your real name” jokes for 3 days in a row to a crowd of puzzled web standardistas…
January 5th, 2006 at 10:35 pm
Hey Patrick, I was going to ask/beg/plead with you to show me how to use my camera properly… but filling in for Bruce sounds much more fun!
January 5th, 2006 at 10:44 pm
I was actually thinking of going to @media this year (assuming I can get it paid for).
January 6th, 2006 at 12:11 pm
Glad to find someone else going along to the AJAX workshop - I’ll be there too. Making a do of it and going to the Carson do a couple of days before as well so in London for three whole days! Any sugestions of the Thursday welcome - I wonder is anyone else if doing the same?
January 6th, 2006 at 12:32 pm
I’ll certainly be going to @media if someone else will pay for it .. but Nongyow inexplicably thinks that my going on a jolly for two days is less important than a month’s combined food and gas bill. Wives, eh?
January 6th, 2006 at 12:48 pm
I’ll be at all three (SXSW, @Media and AJAX workshop), plus there’s also the wedding. In short, you’ll be tripping up over me in the coming months Bruce!
January 11th, 2006 at 11:26 am
Work have just said I can go to @media! But only if I fill out a form detailing my learning objectives. Creative writing time - “drinking beer with Patrick Lauke” is about to become “knowledge sharing with leading web experts” or somesuch.
There’s always my spare room, in lovely SE London, if anyone’s desperate for a place to crash.
January 26th, 2006 at 3:14 pm
Jim: buy me 12 pints of Guinness and a Chicken Vindaloo, and we’ll call it “Exploring creative synergies with a Web accessibility imagineer”. It’s guaranteed to earn you a payrise.
January 26th, 2006 at 8:54 pm
12 pints of guinness and a chicken vindaloo? “Let’s play Botticelli!” “I’ve got a better idea, let’s play Jelly Botty….”
January 29th, 2006 at 11:30 pm