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2009

Scope. Matt Webb’s opening keynote at this year’s reboot11. You owe it to yourself to read it.

# 8th July 2009, 8:15 pm / matt-webb, scope, talks, reboot

djng—a Django powered microframework

djng is nearly two weeks old now, so it’s about time I wrote a bit about the project.

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2008

Debugging Django

I gave a talk on Debugging Django applications at Monday’s inaugural meeting of DJUGL, the London Django Users Group. I wanted to talk about something that wasn’t particularly well documented elsewhere, so I pitched the talk as “Bug Driven Development”—what happens when Test Driven Development goes the way of this unfortunate pony.

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Comet at the Highland Fling. I thoroughly enjoyed the Highland Fling yesterday. Here are the slides from my talk on Comet.

# 4th April 2008, 10:13 am / comet, highlandfling08, talks, conferences, javascript

2007

Comet works, and it’s easier than you think

Visit Comet works, and it's easier than you think

I gave a talk this morning at the Yahoo! Web Developer Summit on Comet, cometd and Bayeux.

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mySociety Disruptive Technology Talks. Four great talks coming up in London this Autumn, courtesy of the lovely folk at mySociety.

# 24th September 2007, 5:51 pm / mysociety, talks, london

Building the Social Web with OpenID. Slides from my keynote at yesterday’s PyCon UK.

# 9th September 2007, 12:36 am / slides, openid, pyconuk2007, pyconuk, keynote, slideshare, socialweb, talks, python

Advanced Django. Slides from my hour long tutorial at PyCon UK this morning. Most of the material was adapted from OSCON, but I also added a new section covering newforms.

# 8th September 2007, 1 pm / slides, pyconuk, newforms, django, pyconuk2007, slideshare, talks, tutorial, python

Doing Local Right

Visit Doing Local Right

“Doing Local Right” was the title of my talk at this year’s @media Europe. Patrick had asked me if I could put together a case study, and I jumped at the chance to share some of the work of my former colleagues at the Lawrence Journal-World newspaper in Lawrence, Kansas. I had the privilege of working at the newspaper for a year in late 2003-2004.

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Doing Local Right. The slides from my presentation at @media 2007.

# 9th June 2007, 7:31 pm / atmedia, atmedia07, atmedia2007, django, lawrence, ljworld, talks, local

JavaScript Libraries: The Big Picture

I just gave my first talk at XTech 2007 (I’m speaking again on Friday, on OpenID). Slides are on slideshare.net.

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My Future of Web Apps talk as a slidecast

The team at Carson Systems have a pretty quick turnaround on their podcasts; they’ve had full recordings of every speaker up for a few days now. I spent a bunch of time over the weekend splicing the recording of my talk together with my slides, and the result is now available at The Future of OpenID (a slidecast).

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