Jammin in Atlanta
6 Oct 2008 12:43pm GMT Last weekend an illustruous group of known designers and developers came to Atlanta, Georgia to share their ideas and give direct feedback to the audience. The Webmaster Jam Session or short WJS organized by Coffeecup software is a refreshingly different conference that allows to reach attendees you don't normally see at other conferences.
Gugi Map Day Comes to Seoul
6 Oct 2008 1:28am GMT Yahoo! Korea Gugi Map Day took place on September 23 at the COEX Intercontinental Hotel in Seoul. More than 220 developers and bloggers attended, eager for an introduction to Yahoo!'s open strategy. They came to learn more about the global popularity of map mashups, and how they could now participate through the use of local and traffic APIs, newly launched from Y! Korea, along with Yahoo! Maps and Yahoo! Local features for the iPhone. The Map Day also included a draw for prize giveaways -- one...
Flash on the Beach: Day Three (October 1)
3 Oct 2008 2:00am GMT This is the last in a series of articles reporting on Flash on the Beach, one of Europe's premier Flash conferences held in Brighton, UK. Since there are a tonne of sessions I'm only going to pick out my personal highlights, but you can always check the Flash on the Beach for more information on the other sessions. On the train down to Brighton this morning I was considerably more bleary-eyed than yesterday, which may or may not have something to do with playing Call of Duty 4 until midnight...
Report from University of Waterloo Hack Day
2 Oct 2008 4:48pm GMT Editor's note: I've been asked to lead with a special thanks to IMPACT consulting group who helped plan, promote, and organize the Waterloo events and Professor Bill Bishop, who served as a guest judge. Also a shout-out to Yahoo! Canada, and the developers who came out in force from the Toronto office, including Ambles Kwok, an occasional YDN blogger, who also helped out as a judge. The Waterloo University Hack Day has finished. We had a glorious 24 hours of hacking where Search Monkey tech...
YUI for control freaks - a presentation at The Ajax Experience
2 Oct 2008 4:44am GMT The last three days had about 300 developers come to Boston, MA to listen to an impressive array of speakers about everything JavaScript and Ajax related. The Ajax experience conference had the who's who of JavaScript world available for Q&A: Brendan Eich, inventor of the language, Douglas Crockford, spokesman for the "Good parts of JavaScript", John Resig from jQuery, Andrew Dupont of Prototype and Dylan Schiemann of Dojo to name but a few. When the organizers asked me to come around and...