Last year on the 23rd November Microsoft sponsored a one day focused PHP event. This occurred the day before the Open Source Developers conference was scheduled to start. The day was organised with a series of short talks and workshops held in one room. The event attracted small interest at first and rapidly gained exposure closer to the day. The day was held with success and attendees where happy with the presentation of both workshop…
The last weekend before I had to leave the UK the Brighton Bar Camp was on the 2 and 3 September 2010. This was great it meant another excuse to spend a weekend at @stevepurkiss place in the sun near the beach. It was a great venue held at the the Skiff in Brighton where Steve works on his Drupal projects. We got there early on the Saturday to help set-up. I was quite amazed…
I raced from Caen Twitter meet-up onto a ferry into Portsmith, England then a train into London to the Imperial College to Over the Air conference which was on the 9th and 10th of September. All I can say is WOW ok one of the best planned conferences I have ever been to and also it was FREE. The conference is focused on the Web and the latest happenings. There was presentations on all platforms,…
Headed down to Brighton to see D Construct after I was lucky enough to be able to purchase a ticket from someone who could not make it. It was a great conference went with @stevepurkiss and had a lovely tour around Brighton town. The conference was amazing and inspirational. It reinvigorated my taste for research and desire to get my paper finally written. As I have said before never been to much of a font…
Definite highlight of the year attending Drupal Con Copenhagen. Meet so many interesting people got to chat with alot of different companies about Drupal development and the increasing need for good drupalistas. I arrived in Copenhagen two days before the conference so I could check out the sights. Wow what a beautiful, charming city. The conference went for five days including the hack days which were attended 😀 There was lots of talks, probably my…
Early flight into Brisbane saw myself and @1and0 leave Sydney at 6:30am… Lisa the Xo was going on her first flight, well the first one since her birth flight from Quanta. The event has been very well organised by Marmalade Soul, held at the University of Queensland on 05/June. There were two tracks set-up, each track tried to aim at a different audience. There was a good number of people who attended and also a…