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Notes from W3C Conference 2011 (W3Conf)

Authored by Calvin Freitas on November 16th, 2011

The first W3Conf occurred on November 15 and 16, 2011, in Redmond, Washington. It focused on practical standards for web professionals, HTML5, and the open web platform.

Below, I have a list of the presenters and links to the slides (where available). You can watch videos of the presentations. (Currently, this includes Day 1 speakers; I’ll be adding Day 2 speakers and links soon.)

Presenters, Topics, and Slides
Testing to Perfection
Philippe Le Hegaret (W3C)

W3C Community Groups
Manu Sporny (Digital Bazaar)

Shortcuts: Developer Resources
Doug Schepers (W3C)

6 CSS Magic Potions for your Layout Troubles from the Future
Divya Manian (Opera)

Web Graphics: A Large Creative Palette
Vincent Hardy (Adobe)

Web Performance: Making the Web Faster
Arvind Jain (Google)

Shortcuts: Getting Offline with the HTML5 Appcache
John Allsopp

N-Screens: Building apps in a world of TV & Mobile
Rajesh Lal (Nokia)

The Great HTML5 Divide: How polyfills and shims let you light up your sites in non-modern browsers
Rey Bango

Shortcuts: Web Typography
Christopher Slye (Adobe)

HTML5: The Foundation of the Web Platform
Paul Irish (Google)

Mobile Web Development

Authored by Calvin Freitas on April 27th, 2011

The mobile web is important to target as internet users increasingly access websites via smartphones and other mobile devices.

When developing for mobile devices, a couple main alternatives present themselves:

  • target each device individually (a separate app for iPhone, iPad, Android, BlackBerry, etc.)
  • target each device with a mobile website which functions on multiple platforms/browsers

A number of frameworks have begun to emerge in this space to ease the process of developing mobile sites with cross-platform support.

Frameworks for Mobile Website Development:

Each of these frameworks take different approaches, but their end goals are the same: make it easy for web developers to provide a good user experience for their website or web application on a wide range of mobile devices. If you’re looking to do so, I’d recommend looking into these three mobile frameworks as potential solutions.

I had the opportunity today to hear from several speakers including Nicholas Zakas (Yahoo!), James Pearce (Sencha), Tom Dale (SproutCore), and Dan Heberden (jQuery).

I’m including slides from some of the talks and I’ll add others as they’re made available.

High Performance JavaScript by Nicholas Zakas

Building cross platform mobile web apps by James Pearce

I am going to WordCamp Seattle 2011

Authored by Calvin Freitas on March 30th, 2011

WordCamp Seattle 2011

I’m attending WordCamp Seattle 2011 on Saturday, April 16, 2011. In fact, I’m so excited about it that I’m one of the organizers making it possible.

WordCamp Seattle is a one-day conference about WordPress – the world’s most popular content management system, blogging platform, and website creation tool.

Many great speakers are going to be at the event including best-selling author and speaker Scott Berkun, WordPress developer Andrew Nacin, and CrowdFavorite founder Alex King.  Topics include an overview of WordPress, using WordPress, theme creation, plugin development, using WordPress to run your business, blogging, marketing, and SEO.

Regular tickets are $30, student tickets are $25.

Buy your WordCamp Seattle ticket now.  And because you know me, use discount code: “IAMWITHCAL” for an additional $5 off.