Web Form Design - Filling in the blanks

I was lucky enough to see LukeW speak at Webstock. This book is totally worth purchasing! And - wow - look at that cover!

Barcamp Auckland 2 - 12 July 2008

The new Barcamp Auckland website is live and looks quite nice, indeed! There will be a barcamp this year and by all accounts it’s going to be even better than last year! Get on in there and sign up! It’s an event well worth attending.

original image by Zak Henry

Well that was excellent!

Saturday saw the first ever Auckland Barcamp. It was organised by Ludwig Wendzich - a high school student and all round awesome young man! (South African, too!)

Having never attended an unconference I didn’t really know what to expect. I can tell you now I was very pleasantly surprised! I love the fact that it’s an event that allowed everyone to be involved. It’s less one way and more of a discussion. There were plenty of people gagging to present about a number of different things. These are the talks I attended:

• The Future of the Web
• Catch up on the state of digital tv in NZ
• DIY CSS Frameworks: A conversation on CSS design patterns
• Spaghetti or Meatball: a discussion on the BarCamp Tshirt Design Process
• Charles

There was also a fair bit of ‘hallway discussion’ which is the heart of an unconference.

It was an excellent day and it was great to bond with about 75 other like minded people! I cant wait for the next one! And the next one is rumoured to be a sleep-over, too!