Speaker: Thor Muller A few minutes late being back from lunch … the main stage seemed like the easiest to sneak into. Thor, is actually a very good speaker – how serendipitous. Sugru story: http://sugru.com/ Very cool. Preparation – obsessive curiosity – notice the anomalies – forget what you know to be true There is […]

Speaker: Faruk Ates I am surprised that there are not more people in here. Alias problems: “I am webkit” – opera Webstrings from browsers make no sense. For the past decade, the tools really haven’t been helping us do things the right way. 2 good tools: – SASS (with compass) http://compass-style.org/ – LESS FrontPage – […]

Speaker: Phillip Kerman tinyurl.com/javascripthack Scope Hosting Closures Immediately invoked function Expressions (IIFE) Modules Book recommendation: – JavaScript patterns – JavaScript: the good parts. Get a tool with introspection. Komoto, WebStorm Tool with Lint (to check code) Jsfiddle – great place to play around with libraries Unit testing: do it Function expressions are equal to functions, […]

Speakers: Lyza Danger Gardner @lyzadanger, Jason Grigsby @grigs Um. I guess that I was supposed to bring a laptop… Signs of the apocalypse are everywhere. More mobile phones then people on planet. Winners of the previous technology cycle will not be the winners in the next round. – need to think about the number of […]

Responsive Web Design is Only the Beginning Speakers: Gino Zahnd, John Bragg Active notes: Pair up and grab a partner. Draw your partner in 30 seconds… Ouch. – what we mean by device class – how to use this in your everyday work Device capabilities – set of hardware/software factors that have the capability to […]

Going Mobile: Designing iOS, Android, and Web Apps with Standards WRK9 Workshops Hill Country C WEDNESDAY, 1:00 – 4:30PM There’s been a lot of hype about mobile devices since the debut of the iPhone in 2008, followed by Android and other platforms shortly after. Now that there are thousands of apps being distributed in app […]

What Colleges Can Learn From The Insane Clown Posse MMP12 Marketing, Management, and Professional Development Big Bend TUESDAY, 2:45 – 3:30PM It sounds crazy, right? What could respectable institutions of higher education possibly learn from a controversial rap group comprised of high school dropouts dressed up in clown makeup? Well, love them or hate them, […]

Swingin’ with Sinatra: Small Apps Fast TPR7 Technical: Propeller Hats Required Hill Country A & B MONDAY, 4:45 – 5:30PM We all see this regularly: one of our sites needs a special piece of functionality that’s just a little too different to handle with our usual tools. Sometimes it’s something big, something that needs a […]

A Data-Driven Content Strategy Idea for Redesigning the Institution’s Website (work in progress) (TNT11) Foothills II As the only web professional at my institution, the idea of coming up with a strategy to redesign the institution’s website seemed ridiculous, so I took a few steps back and looked at what I was already doing: (1) […]

Chris Wilson @cwilso Open Web guy, formerly of Microsoft and now working as a developer advocate at Google, Inc. Better Education through the Web Chris Wilson, Open Web Guy, formerly of Microsoft and now working as a Developer Advocate at Google, Inc. He started in 1993, helping to build Mosaic. Then went on to work […]