Warm Coffee – Reflections of a Web Developer

Day 3 This morning’s hangover was brought to you by Smithwicks. A short day today, with the conference finishing at around 1pm. Before the end, though, a couple of talks to go to before the final keynote. Firstly, was a session on ‘Data portability with SIOC and FOAF‘ from Uldis Bojãrs of DERI, Galway. This [...]

Day 2 After learning the lesson from yesterday’s ‘worst Full Irish Breakfast I’ve ever had in Ireland’, I headed off to the conference via Starbucks – this time my route problems of the previous day were banished, and I actually arrived early. Not early enough for the 8am sponsor presentation, though, so I hope somebody [...]

Intro This is a brief write up of Day 1 of the 2008 XTech conference held in Dublin, Ireland from 6-9 May 2008. Days 2 and 3 to follow. The proceedings and presentations from the conference are available for further reading. The theme for this year’s conference was “The Web on the Move”. Not being [...]

I recently attended a Web Application Security workshop run by SANS in London. Dominic Hiles has made extensive notes on this at: Day 1 Day 2

I spent this afternoon attending an introductory workshop on MPEG-21 DIDL, at the Watershed in Bristol, organised by UKOLN. The presenter was Frances Knudson of the Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library. For the uninitiated, MPEG21 is a standard which “defines an open framework for describing multimedia applications” – although this can really mean anything! [...]