May 25, 2006
The worst thing about geek conferences
Is when your laptop battery dies and you have to revert to taking notes with pen and paper.
Highlights: Prototyping in flash, a visually impared guy talking about how he uses a screen reader to browse the net, no-one uses acccess keys (hardly), ruby on rails sounds interesting but hard, and the feijoa ice-cream is nice.
More to come when I juice up my battery!
5 Comments, Comment or Ping
Jamie
Cameron, Cameron, Cameron .. when will you learn? Every geek knows that you must be prepared with either a seat next to the wall (and a power plug), a spare laptop battery, a spare laptop, or at the very least a phone that you can blog from. :-P
May 25th, 2006
Jamie
PS. Does security get much of a mention? Are they telling all you developers to make sure you validate your input to avoid things like SQL injection and cross-site scripting? Or is it all pretty-Web-2.0-user=interface-tagging-AJAX-standards-great-design type stuff?
May 25th, 2006
Cam
Yeah, this guy right now is talking about spamming etc, and is mentioning all these standards etc. But i really have no ida what he is talking about. Lots of geek stuff - just tell me how to stop spam already.
May 25th, 2006
Cam
I don’t know what an SQL injection is…. Is it something I would have got withy my flu shot?
May 25th, 2006
Miraz
Good thoughts there for topics Jamie. We may organise another Webstock sometime and that kind of techie security stuff could be a good topic.
May 27th, 2006
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