“I was lucky enough to be handed a Windows8 RT Surface to play with. It is a great tablet one that unlike the Ipad I have been able to actually perform work tasks on. While RT is still limited in the sense that you can not store Desktop applications on it unlike the Windows8 Surface Pro the main navigation and use of Metro Apps remains the same between the two. I like the fact that…
Saturday March 16th What can I say awesome day, started with a lovely welcome to the “Microsoft Nerd Center” all I can say on that is wow what a great choice for a venue. The breakfast snacks were amazing and we were off to start a day of jam packed Joomla fun. Paul the new head of Open Source Matters started the day with the welcome speech giving us an update on what OSM will…
Now with this title I am not saying that you should throw away JQuery etc… not at all… Lord knows I never will. But Mozilla has created a lighter version of JQuery to assist with Mozilla OS development and mobile HTML5 app development in general. When you download Mortar to have a play you will notice it is included. I am playing with Mortar and it is a great kit to get your started with HTML5…
9th March So today Barry Teoh and myself went to a speech about Open Web Standards with Tim Berners Lee, IEEE and Adobe on what they are doing to push open web forward…. I had an interesting discussion with Adobe about there stance on Open Web which I did not think was too aligned with what Tim and IEEE are doing. The meeting was good though and it was interesting as it was a small…
March 8 – 17 So after the last couple of years of going oh next year… next year ill make it… I decided to make sure that 2013 was my first SXSW, and wow what a ride… Thanks to Barry Teoh who allowed me to stay with him at his accommodation which sure did take a-load off as most of the accommodation around town sells out before the tickets do. So my advice if your planning on going which you should do atleast…
February 25 to March 1 I have wanted to attend Confoo since 2010 so I decided this year with my trip to North America I just had to fit it in, and I am so glad that I did. The conference was amazing, and as a fangirl of PHP it was great to see so many PHP talks and the quality of them wow not just beginner or mid level talks these are some really deep this is…