Monday, 6. July 2009, 13:21:10
opera, personal, atmedia, blog
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So, to finish of the little report from @media. Day two had a bit more development focus than day one. And after a long walk home the day before (Espen and I spent over one hour walking the Thames back to our Hotel). We where good to go for day two with (at least for me) soar feet and a eager to learn more!
Douglas Crockford was first off talking about quality. A harsh look at routines and work flow for larger projects. Having his background from Yahoo! he sure had a lot of experience and held a really educational talk that I will cherish next semester at the university!
Chris Wilson followed as the next speaker up. Talking about the web, although a lot of it seemed to be "I'm sorry for that" and "Don't sue me for this" (Seeing how he works for a certain company in Redmont).
Molly from Opera followed with a talk on HTML5 featuring a cowboy dressed Bruce Lawson. A hilarious but yet good presentation on the future of the web (expect more on HTML5 to come).
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Tuesday, 30. June 2009, 10:57:03
webdesign, opera, atmedia, blog
Following up on the last post, it's time to get the next one going. We had a quick lunch at a Brazilian place, imagen that Patrick! (And thanks for keeping Sushi alive) After some discussion about the first half of the speakers it was time to head on back to the conference center for day one part two!
Dan Rubin was up next talking about designing virtual realism. This might sound a bit flakky, but the idea was to use images and breake up single colors with either texture (pref from real life images as CGI just isn't that good and always will look fake) or by adding noise to the colors to breake the monotone look of it. I did try to play around with his ideas at home last night and I must say that he had several good points.
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Monday, 29. June 2009, 11:34:13
opera, atmedia, blog, webdesign
So, I've been away for a few days. Where where I? I had the great fortune to be able to attend @media in London. Together with Espen, Truls and we meet up with the Open the web team!
The first day we got to London, found our hotel near Tower Hill and started to explore the city. My initial plan was to buy a pair of sunglasses since I never got around to it last year and I felt it was about time I got some real glasses not the 50NOK glasses I usually buy. So having found a awesome pair of Ray bans I was super psyched. Then after a quick stop by the hotel to meet up with Truls and Mikkey we got in a cab to BBQ at Henny's (Who lives in London). Getting out of the car I lost my first pair of glasses (about 4 hours after buying them). However it's hard to get bummed out when there is so many great people to hang out with. I'm glad I had this opportunity to get to know Chris, Bruce, Henny and Molly better since it's not that often they are in Oslo. We called it a night early so that we would be good to go the day after as the conference started at 08:00.
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