Skinny nerdy bespectacled dude from RailsEnvy just walked into the room and told everyone that the author of The Rails Way was walking around handing out cards and introducing himself to everyone—and then he plugged RailsEnvy. Seemed like a pretty cool guy, and the RailsEnvy mock commercials are pretty funny too.
So apparently, this is basically [...]
As it turns out, I had my information wrong, the Khoi Vinh presentation wasn’t for another few hours—during the potentially rad Should I Build My Start-Up on Rails presentation, as well as a really great-sounding web typography panel discussion featuring Elliott Jay Stocks. Decisions decisions…
Instead of sitting through that unhelpful and rather irrelevant presentation, I [...]
Presented by Mike Subelsky - Other Inbox – mikesubelsky@otherinbox.com
For starters, this dude is dressed in a goddamn super hero outfit! Great start, great first impression. I saw him earlier this morning before the JavaScript panel presentation, and got pretty excited about it—but I just thought that he was some random conference nutter. On top [...]
As it turns out, I had my information wrong, the Khoi Vinh presentation wasn’t for another few hours—during the potentially rad Should I Build My Start-Up on Rails presentation, as well as a really great-sounding web typography panel discussion featuring Elliott Jay Stocks. Decisions decisions…
Instead of sitting through that unhelpful and rather irrelevant presentation, I [...]
Presented by Tony Hsieh – Zappos CEO – tony@zappos.com
This entry was completely unintended, as was my presence for this presentation, but I was sitting in the Adobe Day Cafe (where the quick and dirty 30 minute presentations happen), and the SXSW opening keynote was simulcasted on a big projector screen—for those of you [...]
Jason Cranford Teague – jason@brighteyemedia.com – speaking-in-styles.com
Jason has a new book—Speaking in Styles—coming out this summer from New Riders. “Pry-mur” is actually the stuff you put on the wall prior to painting, but “Prim-er” is a sort of tutorial.
This presentation is focused on 3 CSS myths.
CSS is for Web Developers, not [...]
This was the first day of the conference, so I got up a bit early, walked down to the Target that I saw about a mile from Nick’s house to grab a towel for showering, and then walked back. This was all in the pouring down rain mind you, which was rather fun with no [...]
Panel Discussion Participants:
Lane Becker (Get Satisfaction & Adaptive Path)
Christina Halvorson (Brain Traffic)
Byron (Bike Hugger & Texterior Design)
Omet Gupta (Photojojo & Jelly)
“Being interesting isn’t about being uniquely interesting for uniqueness’ sake.”
From Randy’s series “I Like Your Face”: Do Epic Shit
This is an interactive panel, as they are using Twitter to get the crowd to ask the [...]
Presented by: Paul Annett – ClearLeft / Silverback – paul@clearleft.com
The This’n’That magic trick is a pretty rad video 3-card card trick. Dude filmed it and put it up on YouTube 2 years ago and it has gotten 11 million views. The image with “This” in the left hand looks like a [...]
Presented by: Dan Willis – Sapient – dan@dswillis.com
Dan cites Harry Potter and Washington Post as “Print in Disguise” because it relies on the headline format, and the site navigation is hidden and the sites just look like a shiny print brochure that has been adapted. He argues that everything we know [...]