A somewhat overdue post, due to a very busy week catching up on work, sleep and feeding back on everything that I learnt during my time in Las Vegas. In looking back at the few days spent attending MIX10, I thought I’d approach it by addressing the various aspects I considered in my pre-MIX [...]
Compelled to write this after having had an unexpectedly good user experience with all of the above last night. The main thing is that it wasn’t each one in isolation, but the combination and how well they worked together that made it a good experience.
The fundamental elements of win…
After speaking at Saturday’s Multipack event and catching Bruce Lawson’s HTML 5 talk for the second time in a couple of weeks, I had some time to ponder on my walk home through the city.
By the time HTML 5 is prevalent across all major browsers, say maybe up to two years away (and I suspect [...]
Or “Getting R.A.D. with Silverlight and Expression Blend”!
The idea behind this set of talks was to take a look at the options currently available, or on their way for creating Rich Internet Applications. Unfortunately we couldn’t get representation from the Flash community, but Bruce Lawson was there to give his popular talk from FOWA on [...]
I received this email from a good friend and former colleague yesterday; a very experienced senior web designer who’s been away travelling for the last 8 months or so.
My old boss sent me this as way to get working again when I get back but it looks a bit like you do loads of graft [...]
After a pretty crazy few days of sensory and information overload in Vegas, it’s time to look back and take stock of what has come out of the conference. I’m writing this from by the Pool at the Venetian – it’s nice to have time to myself again, and no obligations save making sure i [...]
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After a great couple of days spent chilling out in and around Boulder City, NV - I headed to Vegas, dumping the rental car and ‘enjoying’ a high-speed taxi ride to the Venetian. I think the driver may have had too much coffee, as he also drove off as soon as i had paid and [...]
During the course of our current project we have been through a few iterations of our development process, with one goal being to find the best way for us Designers to work in Expression Blend on data driven controls. There has been a bit of pain involved along the way and we’re yet to find [...]
A very insightful, forward thinking set of talks in a great location, with informal and interactive atmosphere.
Or “A great day geeking out”.
This was the first of a more formal series of events put on by the Multipack community of web professionals in Birmingham, and my first time attending, having only recently discovered them via the [...]
Awesome… I’ve finally got a new look for space-scape.
The theme you’re looking at is something of an evolutionary leap from my old site; last updated over 5 years ago and still visible for the moment at www.space-scape.co.uk to give you some context. In fact, as a special treat - take a look at my first [...]