Tag Archives: dconstruct06

I did manage to wander down to the terraces eventually. It was a huge crowd. It felt like 75% of the conference had made it down there. Sadly, I stopped to check my mail before going, so missed the tab … Continue reading →

Thomas van der Wal invented the term folksonomy. It’s all about tagging. He’s raised an interesting point about tagging: identity. It’s very important to know who created the tags so you can decide who’s tag you want to trust. He … Continue reading →

Derek Featherstone on how to do accessiblity now we’re seeing more Applications and JavaScript. Even something as simple as a login form can have many, many accessibility problems. Little things like using an image instead of a button to submit … Continue reading →

Aral Balkan is talking about how to do flashing. And flexing.. A brief rant about the openness of data in the UK (more details at freeourdata.org.uk). Flex examples: Home Locator FlexSQLAdmin Onyx Video Mixer He goes on to explain all … Continue reading →

Jeremy Keith is talking about how much fun APIs can be. He’s bigging up REST, which is fine by me. He integrated flickr, delicious, upcoming all into adactio elsewhere. It’s all about a web of data. Microformats are the way … Continue reading →

Simon Willison and Paul Hammond talking about how web services are helping to make Yahoo work. As an example, they’re talking about how to build a login form. They’re covering how you can’t just talk directly to a database. You … Continue reading →

Jeff Barr is Amazon’s Web Services evangelist. He’s talking about all the web services that Amazon offer. Feels like a product pitch, even though the technology is interesting. Some of the demos that use the E-Commerce API are pretty cool. … Continue reading →

And it’s huge! Compared to last years event, anyway. It’s down in the Corn Exchange, which thankfully hasn’t been fitted out to the max with chairs (unlike the last time I was here). There’s a really nice space at the … Continue reading →

It’s the penultimate day before d.Construct 2006! If ever you needed an excuse to come and visit Brighton, this is it. The gig is sold out, but come on down anyway; there’s still plenty going on! If you want to … Continue reading →