iPhone Dev Camp
iPhone Dev Camp 2 is coming August 2-3 at the Adobe office in San Francisco. Last year a lot of really cool projects came out of the weekend hack-a-thon. This year should be no different with people working on exciting new web apps and native apps.
As a special bonus this year Seattle mobile geeks will join the party at iPhone Dev Camp Seattle at the Adobe Seattle office the same weekend, complete with a video hookup to San Francisco activities.
Not in Seattle or San Francisco? Many satellite events are coming together around the world.
Roomatic
This past year I’ve been thinking that Twitter is increasing looking like IRC. Then Russ goes and builds Roomatic “a experiment to create a chatroom-like user interface on top of Twitter.”
“A lightweight portable cardboard toilet, made specifically for outdoor use. The box pops up from a convenient 14 inch flat pack to a rigid, reusable, comfortable toilet. Each box comes with ten degradable poo bags.”
Michael Arrington on Foo Camp 2008
I’m still writing up my impressions of the event, but Michael does a great job summarizing what the event is and what it is about.
Zoe Keating
Had the chance to see Zoe Keating perform last night at Foo Camp… and I have to say I was amazed! She uses sampling technology to layer live tracks using only her cello to produce incredibly deep and powerful sounds.
Definitely check out her site, get a taste for her sound and buy her album from iTunes.
Mark Bittman on what's wrong with what we eat
Excellent presentation by my favorite foodie, on how the food we eat isn’t just killing us, it is killing the planet.
(via Dave)
Article: What's Next?
As I’ve been preparing for Foo Camp I’ve been struggling to define what’s next for me? what excites me? and to a larger degree what is the future of the web?
The more I thought about it the more I got depressed, going from a hiccup in my “master plan” to a full blown professional, er… “crossroads.”
I’ve been struggling with writing this article for over a month, trying to capture my thoughts in a coherent manner. The first version of this article was a 4,000 word essay on everything that I feel is wrong with the web today (which I immediately decided should never be published).
After talking it over with peers, my wife, my mentor, my father—basically anyone that would listen—I tried again.
In this new article I try to capture what I think is missing from the web, why I think I “lost my faith,” but mainly to serve as a personal manifesto, something to remind me what I’m in this for and where I hope to go.
I hope that I won’t be the only one at Foo Camp that feels this way and maybe I’ll find that thing that I somehow lost.
Opera Web Standards Curriculum
Learning Web Standards just got easier. Opera’s new Web Standards Curriculum is a complete course to teach you standards-based web development, including HTML, CSS, design principles and background theory, and JavaScript basics.
Well done Chris and the folks at Opera!
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