fordie’s Blog

Last night at the Burlington Hotel, during the biggest thunderstorm so far this summer we had the first Worthing TweetUp. Considering this is something that started as an idea I mentioned to David Rosam in passing two or three weeks ago I was pretty pleased with the turn out. David & I were there along [...]

The other day I got chatting to David Rosam on  Twitter when we discovered that we lived very close to each other.  It occurred to us that there were probably a number of other Twitter users in the area, failing that it seemed likely that there would be lots of freelancers & assorted geeks Worthing [...]

Those fine fellows at clear left are once again running dconstruct the peerless Brightonian one day web conference. I was there last year and thoroughly enjoyed it. Hopefully my boss read his email last week and remembered to book my ticket, but in case he didn’t I decided to enter the competition for a ticket. [...]

FOWD 2008 got off to a promising start when I met Jeremy Keith getting off the Tube, we chatted as we waited in the monster queue outside Kensington Town Hall about a wide range of topics from DOM Scripting and Microformats to our new Macs. I had intended to “live blog” throughout the day , [...]

I thought I’d write a bit about dconstruct before it became too distant a memory. The conference was really enjoyable and I came away with quite a lot of ideas buzzing about my head. i particularly enjoyed Designing for a Web of Data by Tom Coates and Jared Spool on The Dawning of the Age [...]

It’s only just over a week away now. d.construct is the only conference I’m currently booked to attend this year (though I’m hoping to get to @media Ajax in November) So I’m really looking forward to it. The sessions look like they are going to be very good – I’m also looking forward to spending [...]

I was really hoping that I’d be able to go to @media 2007 in London next month but for one reason & another (it not having being signed off by the boss & actually being on holiday) I won’t be there. It’s a shame, but with any luck there’ll be plenty blogged about it. Last [...]

I just got this email from those lovely folks at vivabit: The @media 2007 web site has just been launched, and you can now register to attend: http://www.vivabit.com/atmedia2007/europe/ Taking place on June 7th and 8th, this year the bar will be raised and web design and development best practices will be pushed that one step [...]

I’m sitting in the Brighton Odeon Cinema in the “Fully Web” Session of “Fully Loaded” Tour it’s being presented by Steve B(something). It’s basically Adobe trying to sell their suite of web development products. It’s not really holding my attention. There are two reasons for this: Firstly, all they have covered in any detail so [...]

Having thoroughly enjoyed @media 2006 a couple of months back, I was excited to receive an email today announcing @media 2007! And this time there are three conferences to choose from: San Francisco, Hong Kong or London If you are involved in the web design / development industry and you are near one of the [...]