Natalie and Simon are leaving us to move to Brighton, which is a real shame but also an excuse to go to Barcamp Brighton. Tickets went on sale at 11am today, and I’ve managed to nab one before they sold out.
The slides for my Barcamp talk are available, for those who missed it (most of you, you swine). Of interest if you want to see a Drupal site that doesn’t look like a Drupal site, and how you might go about doing that.
Assaf writes about, among other things, REST as a simplifier of development against an existing system:
REST plays the same role as open source and open APIs: It eliminates tooling and vendoring as artificial barriers to adoption.
Here's a sneak peak at some of the lyrics from Barcamp Weekend's forthcoming single release, Trailing Comma. It's about the perils of writing Javascript without keeping an eye on the behaviour of a certain class of browsers.
Who gives a fuck about a trailing comma?
I've seen IE alarm a
User,
Confuse herThough it might not be ECMA,
Most other browser check the
Syntax
Then relaxWhy'd you fail to parse the file?
So much coding, just one little flaw,
Goes to show: should always read the spec!
We've all been there, right?
BarCamp Oxford is happening on April 4-5 this year! Like other BarCamps, this will be a loosely organized "unconference", where every attendee is a participant and the sequence of events is decided by consensus: as the BarCamp site declares, "no spectators, only participants."
I'm really pleased that this has got off the ground.
The next few weeks look like they're going to be incredibly busy. Right now my greatest worries are of course about Oxford Geek Night 11 on Wednesday 25 March.
Today I had a whale of a time at BarCamp Apache Oxford. The social event last night—coffee, beer, curry and then more beer—meant that the majority of BarCampers got to know each other really well before the event. As Ross said early on today, it was clear from the mix of people last night that things were going to go fine, with everyone being very accommodating of each other's talks.
I managed to acquire a hangover despite leaving early last night.
Almost certainly no progress on those copious and comprehensive notes about BarCamp Oxford this side of Easter.