Notes of the inaugural Scottish web conference organised by Alan White

An early start from Brighton to attend a conference in Edinburgh, with an interesting title. As Edinburgh is not in the highlands, but perhaps a great subtitle of progressive enhancement to attract us southerners to make the trip across the borders.

Aim of conference: The first Scottish conference based on progressive enhancement demonstrating what we can do today for tomorrow > learning the correct methods of web development > progressive enhancement of the web.

Photo of Jeremy Keith’s Secret Fling

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Tantek Celik talks about his Internet fame and breaks down his work on microformats at Technorati. He also tells us that everything he learned about online video he learned at the Vloggies and promises his own vlog soon.

You can view the video here

.. and useful web services in a web 2.0 environment

want some quick tips on how to increase your productivity? Want to save less time trying to find the information you ‘filed’ last week?

Some are free, some are a few pounds, all well worth checking out to see of they can help you, like they have with me.

They are all about sharing, storing and using information efficiently:

• basecamp – without a doubt, essential tool from 37signals- let your clients know at what stage you are with that all important project.. this is a lifesaver.. should of been using it earlier!
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As you will see from my upcoming.org account, there’s a fine list of events this year I’m either attending or watching.

WebDD > Already attended. In my home town of Reading.

The Future of Web Apps

The second year for this event from Carson Summits. What looks like to be a fun filled business, news/media and technology 2 day conference. Some fantastic speakers, some of who I saw last year at @Media2006.

The Highland Fling

A first for the Scottish Web community – This inaugural Highland Fling conference will cover the topic of progressive enhancement. Two of Brighton’s own regular speakers, Jeremy Keith and Andy Budd address the the subjects of Ajax and CSS3 respectively.

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Who says Christmas can’t involve geekery?

24ways.org returns from last year’s triumphant set of articles, spanning the 24 days of xmas. Its a great resource where leading web developers and programmers post an article each day.

..(another) rounded corner article, flickr jscript feed, and and accessibility article have been posted so far. Loving the variety and exposure to new techniques I wouldnt normally dabble in.

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After d.construct and Jeremy Keith’s Talk, here is the list of web services supplied as API’s by the big players for making the internet a richer experience for all users:

• Amazon.com Web Services
• Google SOAP Search API
• Flickr API

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This is the best link I have found so far for Google Map Mashups

http://bluweb.com/us/chouser/gmapez/start.html

Before you can start this, you must get a key from Google Maps API
http://www.google.com/apis/maps/