The great folks at Web Directions have posted the slides and audio from my recent typography talk in Sydney. Enjoy! Visit site »
I’ve had this one in my “to watch later” pile for several weeks, and I finally got around to it last night. Cabel’s one of the more entertaining speakers I’ve ever head the pleasure of seeing in person, and this talk about the development of Coda certainly lives up to that. He’s insightful, funny, and interesting. Check it out. In my opinion, Panic is still synonymous with great Mac software — even as I was never the target market for Coda and Expan drive has largely made Transmit unnecessary for me. Visit site »
Stephen’s presentation is really great — he does a nice job of explaining why “pretty pictures” are a lot more valuable then you might initially think. Besides the slides, the accompanying blog post is also really good stuff. Visit site »
Leah has posted her slides from the recent Future of Web Apps conference in London, detailing her lessons learned in developing Pownce, the popular Django-based social web app. Visit site »
A killer tutorial done by Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Jeremy Dunck, and Simon WIllison at OSCON yesterday. Tons of great “advanced” Django topics are covered, including middleware, signals, scaling, AJAX, and more. Great stuff. Visit site »
Simon Willison, “Identity Crusader”, continues his OpenID evangelism with a kick-ass TechTalk at Google. Visit site »
Simon did a short presentation on why good online local news coverage requires a dedicated, focused, talented and most of all, local team. He used our work at the Lawrence Journal-World as the basis for the presentation (Simon worked at the Journal-World for a year while he was studying here in the states). Thanks for the props, Simon! Visit site »
Audio just became available of the SXSW panel Veloso, Veerle, Kelsey and I put together. This panel got very mixed reviews, so listen at your own risk. :) Visit site »
Ryan, who I hung out with quite a bit at FOWD and is a great guy, posts his “User-Centered Design Principles for Evolving Products” slides from the event. I was bummed that I missed his presentation because I was prepping for mine, but everything I’ve heard says it was really great. Visit site »
130 slides on web typography. Enjoy! (2.4MB PDF) Visit site »
If you’re going to the Web 2.0 conference in SF next week, be sure to check out Adrian’s presentation about Django. You know you want to! Also, there’s a comparison of web app frameworks panel that looks like it should be good (includes members of both the Rails and Django teams). Visit site »
I was anxious for this podcast to become available for two reasons: first, I heard it was a great panel. Second, it’s the panel that I was told someone left mine for. I was told they got on the mic and made a fuss about how our panel sucked, so she went there instead.
I haven’t actually had time to listen to the entire thing yet, but I did scrub for that bit, and found it at about the 47:30 mark. Turns out, I was grossly misinformed. The woman did note that she left our panel, but the fact that she had been in our panel was actually relevant to her question. And while it does sound like she may not have been a big fan of our panel, she certainly didn’t make a scene about how it sucked and whatnot. Coudal did make a joke about how it was “awesome” that she left someone else’s panel for his — a joke which I probably would have made myself, so I have no qualms with that! Overall, I was happy to hear that it wasn’t as bad as I’d been told.
I’m excited to listen to the whole thing. What I have heard sounds very interesting, and having heard Coudal speak before, I can say that he’s terrific. Visit site »
The podcast is now available for one of my favorite sessions at this year’s SXSWi. Follow along with the slides as you listen.
I made a couple of comments at the end of the session, and was surprised to find out, when I listened to it back, that I’m actually not completely appalled by the sound of my voice.
I now dread hearing the podcast of my own panel that much less. Visit site »
Just another mini-review of Design Workflow at Work Visit site »
Another nice set of notes, which seem mostly positive. Maybe some people actually liked this thing, after all. :) Visit site »
Great, comprehensive notes of our panel at SXSW.
I’m really amazed at how little of the panel I actually remember. I had a lot of notes in front of me — thing I really wanted to say, if the moment presented itself (this was a free-form discussion and not a structured presentation). I don’t think I actually looked at the notes once during the panel, and I left feeling like I probably forgot to say all of these things. Thanks to these notes, I now realize I did actually say most of what I intended to — and I feel a lot better about the panel because of it.
It may not have been exactly what everyone in the audience wanted, but I’m starting to realize that we really were successful in doing what we wanted. So, that’s something. Visit site »
The future home of the website that accompanies Greg, Ethan, Bronwyn, and Erin’s great SXSW panel on writing. Visit site »
Looks like SXSW is doing a better job of getting podcasts online faster this year. There’s still a lot to add, but there’s already a good handful there for your listening. Visit site »