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Comment on Emerge mini-conference and the challenge of presenting online by Rachel

Rachel — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:42:34 +0000

Hi
Just thought I’d let you know that I was listening to the talk. It was very useful and I have just changed my hosting following your suggestions (something I had been worrying about for a while). It was great to access this conference from home- I’m sure I wouldn’t have had time to attend in ‘real life’.

Comment on Emerge mini-conference and the challenge of presenting online by Matt Carey

Matt Carey — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:12:52 +0000

Thanks Rachel. I was wondering if there was a common system in use which caused the problems (lack of interaction etc).

Comment on Emerge mini-conference and the challenge of presenting online by Rachel

Rachel — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:57:08 +0000

Emerge used GoToWebinar, but every conference I have done has used different software. There are a whole heap of different things out there. I’ve only ever used them as a speaker so don’t know how they differ as an organiser.

Comment on Emerge mini-conference and the challenge of presenting online by Matt Carey

Matt Carey — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:30:23 +0000

Rachel, what software did you use for the online conference? Is there a standard out there or are different conference organisers going with different solutions?

Comment on Emerge mini-conference and the challenge of presenting online by Kim

Kim — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 09:58:26 +0000

Hi Rachel

I was listening to your talk last Monday (and thoroughly enjoyed it). I enjoyed the online conference as a whole and hope they’re here to stay, but I agree with the points you raise about interaction. As well as being able to converse with the speaker it would be great to also be able to chat with other delegates directly before/after a talk too. IRC would be good, maybe also skype(?). Also, to get instant feedback on your talk, you could you could register it on http://joind.in. You could encourage listeners at the start and end of the talk to visit your page and leave feedback (and you can upload yr slides there too)

Thanks for a great talk, and best of luck in the future with Perch.

Kim

Comment on Does PHP have an image problem? by Ian

Ian — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:44:52 +0000

I came to PHP from ASP (before they added the .net bit), before there was any form of classes available. One of the first things I spotted when coming to PHP was CakePHP, which I didn’t follow at the time but should have and the PHP code I wrote at the time was pretty poor. Certainly there was a long lag in PHP between when PHP came about and when good frameworks became available (Ruby came after PHP but CakePHP is based on Ruby on Rails). As you say the strong bond between Ruby and Ruby on Rails is a great thing. It teaches good practice to beginners in the code.

I’ll never understand why two open source programmers would choose to needlessly criticise each other’s choice of programming language. I guess there’s always competition between the languages which leads to us-and-them camps, especially when you’re at a Ruby On Rails demo, but the speaker should have known better. It seems like Ruby has made efforts to improve on PHP which is great, but when you stand on the shoulders of those that went before you don’t do yourself any favours by trying to dig a ditch under what you’re standing on.

Comment on Be kind to one another by » 2012-january-5 The Pastry Box Project

» 2012-january-5 The Pastry Box Project — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:02:37 +0000

[...] I want to encourage a culture of argument and debate, that takes the web and technologies forward. A culture that takes everyone's view as important. A person who has only been in the industry for a year may well have insights that those of us who have been around a very long time do not have. I can remember CSS being introduced, and debating the merits of using it instead of font tags, how much of my thinking is clouded by our history? That said, those of us who have 10+ years of web development experience, by way of that, have insights into a wider range of projects and problems that newer folk do not have. We can seem stuck in our ways when we point out potential issues – but our advice is tempered with experience. [...]

Comment on On lucky breaks and saying yes by Daily Reading: January 4, 2012 | Elliot Ross

Daily Reading: January 4, 2012 | Elliot Ross — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:02:34 +0000

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Comment on On lucky breaks and saying yes by Simon Mackie

Simon Mackie — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:54:23 +0000

This is a great post, Rachel! We’re certainly always looking for talented new writers for our websites and our books, and I’m sure other publishers are, too. While it’s true that certain well-established names do have a bit of “star quality” about them, I’m much more interested in commissioning writers who have something interesting and relevant to say.

Comment on On lucky breaks and saying yes by Peter Wilson

Peter Wilson — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 04:32:13 +0000

I’d add that approaching mid-sized properties about guest posts – even if unpaid – is a good first step.

The mid size property is less likely to have a strict style guide for you to follow, so you can focus on your content.

You’ll almost certainly get a good reaction on the mid-sized property and you’ll feel more confident approaching a bigger one.