David’s Web Development Blog

The conference was definitely interesting and well worth the drive from Southern California!  I finally got to see a lot of familiar names in person.  Douglas Crockford was there of course, and he didn’t have to worry about making people laugh at the right time during his keynote.  When Douglas wants you to laugh, you laugh (apparently).

I would love to have presented something, but I had nothing to show off, and being an intern, I can’t do much..  I’m lucky I got to attend I suppose!  Everyone who signed up got Crockfords “Javascript: All The Good Parts” as well as a conference T-shirt and sticker!

There was also a raffle for assorted books.  I didn’t win, but James did - and he graciously gave me his books.  Both written by fellow Yahoo!’s - a book on Javascript something or other by Nicholas Zakas and another book by Christian Heilmann.  I saw Zakas give a presentation during the conference and I was actually taught one-on-one by him for a couple-day long course on the DOM and YUI, which was part of the Yahoo Juku program.

Photos to come.  Right now I’m tired from the drive.  Took off early around 3pm and got to my house at 9pm - drove straight through without a break.  And now it’s somehow 1am.