Topic Archive: Conference

Upcoming Conference: FITC Chicago 2008, June 22-23

Dietrich Kappe, Friday, May 30, 2008 @ 7:27 pm

Another Chicago area conference coming up: FITC Chicago 2008, from June 22-23 at the Chicago City Centre Hotel & Sports Club, 300 E. Ohio. We're even supporters. So what is it beyond the platitudinous "design and technology" event?

Obviously there's going to be lots of talk about how to develop Flex and Flash applications. Also how to develop online/offline apps with Adobe Air. Heck you'd think Adobe was a sponsor.

If designing RIA's with Flash/Flex/Air is your thing, you want to be here. It's not free, but based on last year's event, well worth the $125-$250 (depending on which sessions you go to).

Update: If you sign up here with our special ninja supporter code of PATH15, you get 15% off.

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Welcome To RailsConf

Noel Rappin, Friday, May 30, 2008 @ 6:17 pm

I'm nearly at the end of day 1 of RailsConf, and I can report that it's very, very crowded. The sessions have been great. You can follow along with me and my day at http://twitter.com/noelrap for the minute by minute updates, I've been posting there fairly regularly. I'll do a fuller recap of the conference at the end.

If you are at RailsConf, remember to come up to me and ask for a book, I still have a few to give out. Also, I've scheduled a Birds of a Feather session on Saturday at, I think, 8:30, to talk about iPhone and mobile web application development using Rails, especially to talk about the rails_iui plugin.

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Upcoming Talk at RIApalooza: Fast. Smart. Agile. User Experience Driven Agile Development

Dietrich Kappe, Thursday, May 22, 2008 @ 9:48 am

Look Ma, no Powerpoint! My colleague Matt Nolker will be giving a talk entitled Fast. Smart. Agile.  User Experience Driven Agile Development at the upcoming RIApalooza to be held at the Illinois Technology Association (ITA), 200 S. Wacker Dirve, 15th Floor, Chicago, on Saturday, May 31st.

The event has an interesting restriction: no Powerpoint. So no snooze fest sales presentations with endless bullet points. Since UXD (User Experience Design) has some visual aspect to it (you can only wave your hands and speak to a point for so long), we will be making due with "more primitive visual aids" as Tom Lehrer put it.

See you at the networking even on Friday.

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