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Morning Sessions
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Afternoon Sessions
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Morning Sessions
You can choose one morning session...
- Introduction to Microformats
Tantek Celik - Interface Design for Web Apps
Dan Rubin - Jabber: Building the Real-Time Web
Blaine Cook - Web App Nip Tuck
The Scrapblog Team
Learn all there is to know about microformats, from what they are designed to solve, meaningful markup before implementation, choosing appropriate copy to microformat and adding them to your own site.
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Designing a web application requires a very different set of skills from designing a regular site. As interfaces grow more complex, so does the challenge of clearly communicating them to a site's users.
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Real-time interaction is becoming a necessity on the ever-more dynamic Web. Jabber is a powerful established protocol, already used by over 10 million people worldwide, and ideally suited to web application development...
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For anyone who wants to know the best ways to make money from their site or application. One of the most recognized aspects of Scrapblog is its ease of use and dead simple workflow. Full details back to menu
Afternoon Sessions
... and one afternoon session
- Implementing Open Social Web support on your website
Joseph Smarr - Improving The Performance of Your Web App
Joe Stump - Self-Replicating Awesomeness: Unmarketing your Web App
Brian Oberkirch - How to Build a Web App From A-Z
Kevin Hale
Websites are increasingly becoming socially-enabled: sharing and consuming content with people you know, integrating into social networks, and otherwise leveraging the online activity of you and your friends across multiple sites...
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Scaling your site is only one half of the problem. Slow loading pages mean a terrible experience for your users, but the demand for more interactive applications has increased the amount of code that needs...
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Consumers are smart, informed, choosy and time poor: find out how to grab their attention. This is a marketing session suitable for anyone who needs to grow their user base and convert into customers.
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Having a great web app idea is only the beginning of the fun. Taking that idea from your head and getting all the way to launch is no easy task and unfortunately there aren't any official instruction manuals!
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Introduction to Microformats
- Time:
- 09.00 - 12.30, 28 Feb 2008
- Location:
- Knight Concert Hall, Carnival Centre
- Speaker:
- Tantek Celik, tantek.com
Learn all there is to know about microformats - simple, open data formats that make online content more meaningful and portable. Discover the problems microformats are designed to solve, meaningful markup before implementation, choosing appropriate copy to microformat and ways to add microformats to your own site.
What you'll learn
- Learn what microformats are
- Making meaningful markup before implementing microformats
- Learn where microformats are best used
- Get practical advice on how to implement to your site
Tantek Celik
Tantek.comTantek Celik is a microformats and standards evangelist who has had an instrumental role in the development of best practices for the web. Formerly Chief Technologist at Technorati, he is also best known for his work on the award-winning Internet Explorer for Mac. Tantek is now a freelance consultant.
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Interface Design for Web Apps
- Time:
- 09.00 - 12.30, 28 Feb 2008
- Location:
- Knight Concert Hall, Carnival Centre
- Speaker:
- Dan Rubin, danielrubin.org
Designing a web application requires a very different set of skills from designing a regular site. As interfaces grow more complex, so does the challenge of clearly communicating them to a site's users. Suitable for developers and technically minded designers who are new to the field of interaction design.
What you'll learn
- Principles of interaction; lessons from HCI
- GUI anatomy and interaction design patterns
- Ajax: When and how to use it
- Tools for communicatin with your users
- The future of web application design
Dan Rubin
danielrubin.orgDan is a graphic designer, web developer, musician and Apple enthusiast living and working in Fort Lauderdale, Florida (US). He's founder and principal of Webgraph (a design and branding studio), co-founder of Sidebar Creative (a design collective) and Sinelogic (UI and usability consulting) as well as a web standards consultant and speaker.
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Jabber: Building the Real-Time Web
- Time:
- 09.00 - 12.30, 28 Feb 2008
- Location:
- Knight Concert Hall, Carnival Centre
- Speaker:
- Blaine Cook, Twitter
Real-time interaction is becoming a necessity on the ever-more dynamic Web. Jabber is a powerful established protocol, already used by over 10 million people worldwide, and ideally suited to web application development. Whether you're an API developer or writing client apps, this workshop offers real experience and practical advice.
What you'll learn
- How to build in real-time interaction
- Real lessons learned from building Jabber
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Web App Nip Tuck
- Time:
- 09.00 - 12.30, 28 Feb 2008
- Location:
- Knight Concert Hall, Carnival Centre
- Speaker:
- The Scrapblog Team
For anyone who wants to know the best ways to make money from their site or application.
One of the most recognized aspects of Scrapblog is its ease of use and dead simple workflow. But achieving that can mean a lot of reconstructive surgery behind the scenes. In this workshop we'll dissect key portions of the application and walk you through some of our most in-depth augmentations, lifts and refinements.
What you'll learn
- Techniques for designing easy to use web apps
- How and when to evolve the design of your product
- How to make initial launch design decisions
- How the look-and-feel of your site affects the overall user experience
The Scrapblog Team
This workshop will be conducted in collaboration between the following four key members of the Scrapblog team.
- Mike Gowen, Director of User Experience
- Caleb Elston, Director of Product
- Alex de Carvalho, Director of Community and Marketing
- Carlos Garcia, CEO
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Implementing Open Social Web support on your site
- Time:
- 13.30 - 17.00, 28 Feb 2008
- Location:
- Knight Concert Hall, Carnival Centre
- Speaker:
- Joseph Smarr, Plaxo
Websites are increasingly becoming socially-enabled: sharing and consuming content with people you know, integrating into social networks, and otherwise leveraging the online activity of you and your friends across multiple sites. Learn more about the emerging open standards that will let you harness and participate in the collective activity of the open social web. This workshop will cover both the concepts and latest developments of the Open Social Web as well as some technical details for how to connect your website into this growing ecosystem.
The topics you'll cover:
- OpenID
- oAuth
- Microformats
- OpenSocial
- Social Graph Portability
Joseph Smarr
PlaxoJoseph is Chief Platform Architect at Plaxo, where he leads the 'Open Social Web' initiative to put users back in control of who they know on socially-enabled sites through open data-sharing standards. An active participant in the web community, Joseph was architect and lead developer of the Plaxo 3.0 rich AJAX address book, calendar and sync tool, and has been building web apps for many years. Joseph has a BS and MS from Stanford University in Artificial Intelligence.
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Improving The Performance of
Your Web App- Time:
- 13.30 - 17.00, 28 Feb 2008
- Location:
- Knight Concert Hall, Carnival Centre
- Speaker:
- Joe Stump, Digg
Scaling your site is only one half of the problem. Slow-loading pages mean a terrible experience for your users, but the demand for more interactive applications has increased the amount of code that needs to be downloaded.
This workshop will benefit both client and server-side devlopers.
What you'll learn
- 14 rules for better page performance
- The implications of the browser cache on performance, and how to take advantage of it
- How to maximise parallel downloads, and minimise the impact of cookies
- How to optimise CSS and JavaScript for performance
Joe Stump
DiggJoe Stump is the Lead Architect of Digg.com in San Francisco, California. He's responsible for making sure the applications built at Digg will scale into infinity and beyond. For the last 10 years he's specialized in building highly scalable LAMP solutions. When not working on Digg he spends time maintaining a number of PEAR projects and explores San Francisco.
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Self-Replicating Awesomeness: Unmarketing your Web App
- Time:
- 13.30 - 17.00, 28 Feb 2008
- Location:
- Knight Concert Hall, Carnival Centre
- Speaker:
- Brian Oberkirch, brianoberkirch.com
Consumers are smart, informed, choosy and time poor; find out how to grab their attention.
This is a marketing session suitable for anyone who needs to grow their user base and convert into customers.
What you'll learn
- Find out the smartest ways to penetrate right into the heart of your target market
- Build communities of loyal and passionate users
- Post PR - use blogs, article writing and reviews to get yourself seen
- Organic search - the latest thinking on search-friendly pages
- Help your customers to help you! Customer-based R&D
- Measure the results
Brian Oberkirch
brianoberkirchBrian consults on marketing, social media and web development projects, helping companies use new tools to have better conversations with those who matter to their business. Brian has been a marketing consultant and writer for hire, managed national brand accounts at advertising and PR shops, started a social media consultancy called Weblogs Work, taught literature and creative writing, written newspaper articles, read the morning news at a radio station... Phew!
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How to Build a Web App
From A-Z- Time:
- 13.30 - 17.00, 28 Feb 2008
- Location:
- Knight Concert Hall, Carnival Centre
- Speaker:
- Kevin Hale, Wufoo
Having a great web app idea is only the beginning of the fun. Taking that idea from your head and getting all the way to launch is no easy task and unfortunately there aren't any official instruction
So in this workshop, we are going to give you tips on the complete process of building a web app, from A to Z.
What you'll learn
- How to decide between bootstrapping and gettng outside investment
- If you need funding, where you can find it
- How to find and recruit the right team
- Tps for managing the project - Milestones 101
- Tactics to engage and delight your potential audience
- Ideas for generatng buzz around your launch
- How to change and improve your app after launch
- Reacting quickly and effectively to customer support
Kevin Hale
WufooKevin Hale is the Co-founder of Infinity Box Inc, a Y Combinator seeded company. He is responsible for safe guarding and designing the user experience of their online HTML form builder, Wufoo. Kevin writes about interface design issues for the web development blog, Particletree and served as Editor-in-Chief of the web development magazine, Treehouse. As a child, Kevin was the kid in class who who ate a box of crayons for a dollar.
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$595
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"I loved the real-life practical examples and insight into the rules behind web standards." - Andy Brockie, Guardian Unlimited
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"It was great meeting other quality developers." - Ryan King, Technorati
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"It was invaluable to get confirmation that other big players are using the same approaches as us." - Erki Esken, Skype
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Free Survival Kit!
Code and resources from the best of the best
Every workshop attendee gets to take home a FREE copy of the accompanying Survival Kit DVD
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"I gained tons of practical advice. All valuable hands-on stuff." - Henrik Pettersen, MTV
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The workshop was great for comparing experiences - Jeff Veen, Adaptive Path
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"Being able to ask questions and participate freely was great." - Marcia Palmer, Cabinet Office
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"The question and answer section was excellent." - Mark Francis, Yahoo!
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"Comparing example architecture to our own gave us some really great ideas." - Richard Keen, Multimap
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$595
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"I loved the real-life practical examples and insight into the rules behind web standards." - Andy Brockie, Guardian Unlimited
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"It was great meeting other quality developers." - Ryan King, Technorati
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"It was invaluable to get confirmation that other big players are using the same approaches as us." - Erki Esken, Skype
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Free Survival Kit!
Code and resources from the best of the best
Every workshop attendee gets to take home a FREE copy of the accompanying Survival Kit DVD
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"I gained tons of practical advice. All valuable hands-on stuff." - Henrik Pettersen, MTV
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The workshop was great for comparing experiences - Jeff Veen, Adaptive Path
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"Being able to ask questions and participate freely was great." - Marcia Palmer, Cabinet Office