I’m starting to get ready for another trip to Los Angeles for Microsoft PDC. PDC08 was a great trip, however, it ended really poorly for me. I arrived home from LA and spent 5 days in Toronto General Hospital after complaining all week about chest pain. It turns out that after a heart attack, they [...]
We covered CIX in the past, and the Achilles Media team are hosting another great event in CIX conducts an exhaustive search for the most innovative ideas, products, services and companies in the country. Each year 20 technology and clean technologies are selected via a qualified Selection Committee to showcase their innovative product and services [...]
Pete Forde and the gang at Unspace are hosting another kick ass conference about Ruby. FutureRuby is the evolution of RubyFringe. (I’m not sure why the decision to use a Maoist propaganda theme for the art direction, but it looks great. Perhaps it’s a way to fight the Imperialist regimes of Java and .NET). RubyFringe [...]
Are conferences broken? Do conferences need to change? What are the goals of a conference? Communicate This can be research results, new products, new design, development or testing techniques, new ideas, etc. It can be about education and learning. It is the main Exchange of Ideas To encourage the excitement, simultaneity, and ad-hoc in the [...]
The Mix team has published a call for content to participation in Mix09. Mix is a fantastic conference. The challenge with Mix for the past few years is that it is has been closely preceded (2009) or followed (2008) by SxSW Interactive. Fortunately, there’s an 11 day hiatus between Mix09 and Web 2.0 Expo in [...]
PDC is less than a week away, and it appears that the Mix team is busy announcing plans for Mix09 in Vegas. Agenda & Speakers There is a great list of the usual suspects and the some new faces including: Lou Carbone (check out Lou’s previous Mix sessions) Dan Roam, Digital Roam Luke Wrobleski, Yahoo, [...]
Jess and Gene and the nForm crew are hosting another CanUX workshop in Banff this November. They have managed to put together a fantastic group of user experience design speakers. The CanUX event is a very intimate venue that is limited to 75 attendees. You get a great opportunity to connect with other user experience [...]
Countdown to PDC 2008: This is the Software + Services PDC, Plus a Hard Drive Chock Full o’Bits is a PDC Attendee’s Dream Come True! Apparently there are all sorts of interesting bits being given away at PDC 2008 to developers. All developers will be getting a 160Gb external USB2 drive full of content. Mike [...]
Leave it to two knuckleheads, who tend to just do things rather than planning. The result is often something other than what was expected, sometimes you get bitten on the ass for your actions. Jevon and I both jumped the gun, showing you why entrepreneurs need help with logistics, legals and trademarks. Apparently there was [...]
Mark Relph has some Q&A from John Oxley and Rick Claus about the upcoming TechDays events. Each year our team strives to deliver the best experience to Canada’s Technical Professionals that we possibly can. This includes thinking about how to change and innovate our programs to ensure that are meeting your expectations. You told us [...]