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XTech 2008 – Day 3

Posted by Paul Smith on 19 May 2008 | Filed under: conferences and workshops, trip reports

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 [...]

XTech 2008 – Day 2

Posted by Paul Smith on 19 May 2008 | Filed under: conferences and workshops, trip reports

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 [...]

XTech 2008 – Day 1

Posted by Paul Smith on 19 May 2008 | Filed under: conferences and workshops, trip reports

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 [...]

Web Security 101 with SANS

Posted by Paul Smith on 06 Dec 2007 | Filed under: conferences and workshops, trip reports, web security

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