Archive: January 20th, 2015

Lining up Responsive Day Out 3

I’ve been scheming away for a little while now on the third and final Responsive Day Out, and things have been working out better than I could have hoped—my dream line-up is becoming a reality.

Two thirds of the line-up is assembled and ready to go:

See? It’s looking pretty darn good, if you ask me.

You can expect plenty of meaty front-end development topics around the latest in CSS and browser APIs, but also plenty of talk on process, accessibility, performance, and the design challenges of responsive design.

My plan is to go out with a bang for this last Responsive Day Out and, the way things are looking, that’s on the cards.

I’ll let you know when tickets will be available. It’ll probably be sometime in early March. They will, as with previous years, be ludicrously good value.

Oh, and to get you in the mood, this might be a good time to revisit the audio recordings from the first two years.

(and that’s just 2/3rds of the speakers for http://responsiveconf.com/ …more to come)

Speaking at http://responsiveconf.com/ @ZoMiGi @JaffaTheCake @AliceBartlett @StopsAtGreen @MissRachilli @Rumyra @HeydonWorks @CraftUI +more!

A Long Journey Reaches a Happy Conclusion: The Uncertain Web is Out In All Formats

Rob Larsen was published a book with O’Reilly called “The Uncertain Web: Web Development in a Changing Landscape”. I like it:

A refreshingly honest look at the chaotic, wonderful world of web development, with handy, practical advice for making future-friendly, backward-compatible websites.

What the Web Said Yesterday

A profile of the wonderful Internet Archive.

No one believes any longer, if anyone ever did, that “if it’s on the Web it must be true,” but a lot of people do believe that if it’s on the Web it will stay on the Web. Chances are, though, that it actually won’t.

Brewster Kahle is my hero.

Kahle is a digital utopian attempting to stave off a digital dystopia. He views the Web as a giant library, and doesn’t think it ought to belong to a corporation, or that anyone should have to go through a portal owned by a corporation in order to read it. “We are building a library that is us,” he says, “and it is ours.”