The obligatory Web Essentials 05 post
3 October 2005
In my (1 year) tradition of letting other people say sensible things about the Web Essentials geekfest, here are my moments from Australia's greatest conglomeration of kick-ass Web developers for 2005:
- Getting to hold a conversation with the the navel of the behemoth that is The Veen. (Truly one of the Web world's greatest presenters.)
- Getting deferred to by presenters anytime they mentioned JavaScript, out of fear that I actually might know something. (They needn't have worried.)
- Meeting the man, and instantly envisaging my new career – manufacturing lego man models of T. Celik. (Taking orders for delivery in November 2005.)
- Aptly demonstrating the disadvantages of requiring JavaScript by trying to run a JavaScript presentation sans-JavaScript.
- Gaining some taxi-en-route-to-king's-cross enlightenment from John Allsopp as to why Isaac Asimov moved to Sri Lanka. (Its ability to support geo-synchronous satellites ... "and the poontang".)
- Getting a hug from Molly.
Don't worry, although Russ Weakley deleted my podcast because I dissed him at the start of my presentation, the notes and examples will be up somewhere shortly.
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