Category: WordCamp
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Leaflets at WordCamps a PSA
Want to promote your services? Don’t litter a WordCamp with promotional flyers and leaflets. A lot of people turn up at WordCamps, such as London or Europe, hoping to gain new business contacts or customers. But they don’t talk to people, sponsor, or hand out business cards. Instead they place promotional flyers and leaflets in…
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WordCamp Food
Lunch can be stressful for any WordCamp organiser, but there’s a major issue that’s trivially easy to fix that’s gone unnoticed. What’s for lunch? Different people have allergies and dietary requirements, but lunch can be a stressful and anxious situation for all attendees. For example, lunch at the first WordCamp Europe was a mound of unlabelled…
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Code For The People
I’m now working for Code For The People! As a WordPress developer, I’ll be working on a lot of new projects as I did at Interconnect/IT, but without an office to visit everyday. I’ll be swapping The Spectator and University of Nottingham Blogs, for Stephen Fry and The Rolling Stones. This does mean that Interconnect/IT are…
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WordCamp Lancaster 2013
I’m at WordCamp Lancaster, and I’ve given two talks. Here are my slides, and a selection of photos taken! A big shout out to: Chris Witham for lending me a VGA adaptor Jenny Wong for organising the massive Pizza order Marko Heijnen for another VGA adaptor Code Deodorant How to determine code quality by scientific…
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The Fontsplosion & Bread
Somebody at WordCamp asked a question at Robert O’Rourkes branding talk: Is typography led RWD making web design dull – excessive reliance on type to carry the design? Exactly What fontsplosion would this be? Back in the good old days of Netscape, IE6, tables, and layers, we had to choose from the system fonts for…
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WordCamp Edinburgh 2012 – Friday
My first time in Edinburgh and my second WordCamp. Here’s some of the things we got up to on Friday evening The Drive Up While the rest of Interconnect/it dashed around Liverpool finding batteries, myself and the glamorous Lydia Bates took a hire car up to Edinburgh. The plan was she’d drive and I’d work…