This month was a very special meetup for London Web Standards – it’s 5th birthday celebrations! Yes, it’s hard to believe that 5 years ago in October three guys met up in a North London pub to talk about the web. To celebrate this momentous occasion, Imogen Levy baked us a massive 7-layer London Web Standards Cake (British Bake-off contender next year 2013 for sure). Imogen, thank you so much (from all of the LWS Organisers)!
It was also a big LWS for me personally, as I took the stage to talk about a pet topic of mine: Less, Sass and CSS Pre-processors. Gotta say, I had a lot of fun and got some really great questions and comments from the audience. I’ll definitely do it again.
So, the sketchnotes service is at half capacity today, it being quite hard to do sketchnotes of my own talk. The notes this month are of Peter Gasston’s talk on The CSS of Tomorrow, covering future specs that will bring some of the features from Less/Sass to CSS, and hugely improve the way we layout websites (finally!).
My Sketchnotes from Peter’s Talk
The CSS of Tomorrow – Peter Gasston
Thanks again to everyone involved, we truly celebrated LWS’s birthday in style.
Last night was London Web Standards’ Semantic Web event with Mischa Tuffield and Jarred McGinnis talking about RDF standards, SPARQL, how it all works and how it works in the real work in the mainstream press.
Here’s my sketchnotes from both presentations
Sketchnotes of Mischa Tuffield at LWSSemantic
Sketchnotes of Jarred McGinnis at LWSSemantic
Yesterday, I went to Bath to learn about the latest in mobile development from some of the best people in the industry. We had talks from network operators, people who interact with developer advocates, how to make money from apps, digital media distribution, the future of the mobile web and talks about good web apps and responsive web design.
I took sketchnotes throughout the day and inked them up earlier. They were started in pen, hence being a bit rough around the edges (my FOWD set is still the high water mark personally), but have a look.
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James Parton – BlueVia, Building Credible Relationships with Developers
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Tom Hume – Future Web Platforms
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Keiran Gutteridge – Monetising Apps
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Panel Session – Taking Online Offline
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Karen Barber – Media Distribution in a Digital Age
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Rick Chapman – Apps, Show me the Money!
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Peter-Paul Koch – The Future of Mobile Web
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Phil Archer – Lessons from Teaching Mobile Web Best Practices
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Laura Kalbag – Designing for the Mobile Web
My thanks again to James Parton, Tom Hume, Keiran Gutteridge, Thayer Prime, Karen Barber, Rick Chapman, PPK, Phil Archer and Laura Kalbag for such great talks, and to Chris and Mike for putting on the event.
