Kevin Davies and I went to Heart and Sole 2 conference the night and it was a really cool neat gig. All impressive speakers. I was also impressed with the name badges (click here for larger view).
What caught my eye :-)
Syd Lawrence: Hacking the web bit by bit
Internet is a huge playground, learn by doing! Play with as many APIs as you can, make shit up and have fun at the same time :) I forgot how many APIs there truely are. Even o2 has an api now that you write and send text on. Marketing isn't 2nd nature to us(designers and developers) so market market meerkat (lol). Share code (share on git hub) and take in everyone's feedback, even donate to a project that you like :)
Bruce Lawson : How to destroy the web
Code for older devices that remote countries still use basic phones. Make sure you code for all browsers where possible. From statistics, he displayed, there is a large majority of people in this world who still use old phones! Don't break the web by only coding for browsers that work with modern devices.
Seb Lee-Delisle: Beauty in the browser
HTML5 canvas is fun, start coding animation in various fun ways. He didn't have much time, yet I knew this was going to be fun watch when said, "I will do a bit of live coding". It was fun seeing how 3D falling snow flakes is made. He made it soo simple looking and had fun at the same time, I can see he has taught an awful lot. He even introduced me the a snowflake UTF8 (U+2744) font character.
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Bliss.
