I just got back from YAPC::NA 2010. As usual, the presentations were great and the people were better. At last year’s YAPC, I had the good fortune to attend a talk by Karen Pauley entitled Remote Controlled Volunteers. It’s not the kind of talk I would normally look for, but I thought I would check… Read More »
In the past few months, I have been focusing more on SVG. The most important reason was the SVG Open 2009 conference the first weekend of October.1 Some truly amazing demos and research are being done in this area despite nay-sayers claiming that the technology is dead. Some of the biggest announcements leading up to… Read More »
As a short break from my normal programming oriented blog entries, I figured I should comment about YAPC::NA 2007 which we (Houston.pm) are hosting. The conference is currently running (June 25 – 27) at University of Houston, Central Campus. Eight-ish months ago, Jeremy Fluhmann talked us into putting in a bid for YAPC. Despite quite… Read More »