Simon Willison's Weblog: etech

From Pixels to Plastic

2007-03-30T11:09:24+00:00

Awesome talk given by Matt Webb at ETech, on the emerging culture of Generation C, cheap hardware prototyping and physical extensions to the online world.

Tags: etech, generationc, hardware, hardware-hacking, matt-webb

Applied Web Heresies: ETech 2007

2007-03-27T13:15:20+00:00

Applied Web Heresies: ETech 2007

Phil Windley’s notes on Avi Bryant’s ETech tutorial, which shows how ideas from Avi’s Seaside framework can be ported to other languages.

Tags: avi-bryant, etech, phil-windley, seaside

Notes from my Yahoo! UI Library talk

2006-05-18T13:48:22+00:00

I gave my talk on the Yahoo! User Interface Library here at XTech on Tuesday. There's so much great stuff in the library that cramming it all in to 45 minutes proved impossible, so I ended up focusing on the utilities (dom, event, connection, animation and dragdrop) and providing an overview of the controls at the end.

As with my JavaScript tutorial at ETech I made written notes before starting to compile the slides. The notes are incomplete (they abruptly end half way through the dragdrop section - at which point I decided to concentrate on putting the slides together) but should still be useful for people who haven't looked at the Library in detail:

Preparatory notes for "The Yahoo! User Interface Library"

I've also uploaded the slides as a 240 KB PDF.

Tags: etech, speaking, my-talks, xtech, yahoo, yui

My ETech JavaScript tutorial

2006-03-07T05:42:23+00:00

I gave a three hour JavaScript tutorial at ETech this morning, aimed at people with previous programming experience who hadn't yet dived deep in to JavaScript as a programming language. It seemed to go pretty well - some good questions were asked at various points and a few people told me afterwards that they had found it interesting.

I didn't finish the presentation in time to get handouts made up - in fact I was adding the finishing touches 15 minutes before the session began - so I'm posting the slides here. The 111 slides (reduced to low quality JPEGs with Keynote to save on bandwidth) start here: A (Re)-Introduction to JavaScript.

For the sake of completeness, I'm also releasing the notes I made in preparation for the talk (PDF). These are pretty rough and don't match what I actually said very closely but they might be of interest in any case.

The photos in the presentation were all found using Flickr's awesome Creative Commons search feature.

Update: I've converted the notes to a single HTML file with permalinks for each of the sections: A (Re)-Introduction to JavaScript (HTML).

There's a lot of interest in the slides as a single file. The PDF is 50MB thanks to all of the images, but I'll see about getting it hosted on the ETech site. In the mean-time, I've posted higher quality copies of the slides to Flickr.

Tags: etech, javascript, speaking, my-talks