Conferences on Red Leopard

Sepia MacWorld

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:06:49 +0000

I’m reading the news of Apple pulling out of MacWorld with a touch of sadness. MacWorld Boston is long dead. It was only a matter of time before MacWorld San Francisco ended, too. It makes sense to me.

Consider the history of COMDEX. In it’s heyday, COMDEX rocked. There was excitement, drama, confusion. I attended my first COMDEX in 1991, my last in 2003. Fall COMDEX reigned supreme but I also have fond memories of Spring COMDEX in Atlanta. (Never made the Chicago show).

Google I/O May 28-29 2008

Sun, 25 May 2008 19:11:36 +0000

This is a busy week. Monday is a Memorial Day in the United States, ostensibly a holiday. These days, holiday is code for catching up on specification writing, of course.

But on Wednesday-Thursday I’m heading up to Google I/O. I’ll be in the social track. I didn’t see a single session in social track I want to skip. But one session stands apart as one I simply must see. ‘OpenSocial – Scaling and Analytics, Nuts & Bolts’ delivered by Nat Brown.

360|Flex San Jose 2008

Sun, 18 May 2008 18:38:16 +0000

I’m going to 360|Flex San Jose (August 18 – 20, 2008). This is my first Flex conference. I had long maligned Flex as expensive and unnecessary. I have changed my religion!

I saw Peter Armstrong (ruross.com) at the Ruby conference in San Jose. Here’s a guy who built a flex+rails app during his presentation. It wasn’t a slicky talk. No oily powerpoint slide deck. Just raw. Working with the actual tools. Fat finger typo’s in the terminal. There’s an honesty in that.

COMDEX is Dead

Thu, 20 Nov 2003 00:45:20 +0000

I said it last year, “This is my last COMDEX for COMDEX is dead” Yet, I went again. Just to see.

It’s true. Last year was the death of COMDEX. This year was the ‘viewing’. All that’s left is to toss dirt in the grave.