SD West
March 22nd, 2007 at 10:06 pm (Conferences, Travel, W3C, Work)
I’ve been out here in Santa Clara, CA, the last couple of days at SD West, a developer conference. There have been a few good classes (I finally met the hyperproductive Elliotte Rusty Harold for the first time), and a couple of great events. David Platt gave a hilarious and insightful talk based on his book, Why Software Sucks, and Google dominated at the geek-themed quiz show, Developer Bowl. 6th Sense was a finalist for the Jolt Awards, which were announced here last night, and I stood in for our marketing guy, since I was going to be here anyway. We didn’t take away the grand prize for our category, but we were one of the runners-up; we got a nice little plexiglass plaque.
I’ll be holding my own class on SVG tomorrow afternoon. I don’t know how well attended it will be… the last day of conferences tends to have a lot of attrition. But it will be fun anyway, and I always enjoy evangelizing SVG. I whipped up a little presentation app in SVG… it uses the powerpoint idiom, but slides around a large canvas between text and interactive examples. I’ve been using SVG slides for a while, but this is a little more interesting… well, interesting to make, I hope it’s interesting to watch. The class will center on workflow using SVG, and I’ll dig into code here and there (this is for developers, after all).
Update: I’ve put my SVG slideshow up here.
June 24, 2007 at 12:34 am
Is there something SVG that can view your slideshow? I’ve tried FireFox v2.0.0.4 and InkScape v0.45 (both the latest I can find). I would expect a slideshow to be more than one frame. The eight pointed keyhole only makes me want to see more.
March 19, 2008 at 11:32 am
IBM won this years (2008) developer bowl contest at the SD West conference in Santa Clara. I was expecting google to steam roll every team but they were knocked out by Intel and then IBM knocked Intel out.
’twas an awesome display of geek power.