After a 20 hour trip across the Atlantic, some beer at the Roux and a short night’s sleep, I was ready for the crazy geek fest.
As usual the first day was a good start to get into the right mood for SXSW interactive. Together with Colleen and Peter I started the day with standing in line to pick up our badges. After that, we went for a nice breakfast at “The Hideout”. Having taco for breakfast sounded kinda strange at first (especially for a German), but it was really delicious.
Next was the WaSP ILG lunch at the Moonshine. Good food and great company. What else do you need?
At 3.30 Peter and I went to our first panel at SXSW 2009: Oooh, That’s Clever! (Unnatural Experiments in Web Design) by Paul Annett form Clearleft. He showed some really awesome and inspiring experiments and real life examples of creative CSS usage. Hope, he’ll have his slides online soon.
Panels I went to:
10.00 How to Convince Your Company to Embrace Standards (Links @ my del.icio.us)
- Kimberly Blessing, KimmieCorp
- Steven Chipman, Principal, Software Engineer, AOL
- Alla Gringaus, Web Architect, Time Inc
- Arun Ranganathan, Principal, Software Engineer, AOL Inc
- Kevin Lawver, Web Standards Guy, AOL
11.30 Designing the Next Generation of Web Apps (Links @ my del.icio.us)
- George Oates, Producer, Ludicorp
- Mena Trott, Partner, Six Apart
- Evan Williams, CEO, Odeo, Inc.
- Jeffrey Veen, Measure Map
- Eric Rodenbeck, Dir, Stamen Design
10.00 CSS Problem Solving (Links @ my del.icio.us)
- Ethan Marcotte, Creative Lead, Vertua Studios
- Dave Shea, mezzoblue.com
- Charles Wyke-Smith, Dir of Production, Nacio Systems
- Christopher Schmitt, Principal, Heatvision.com Inc
- Tiffany B Brown, Owner, Webinista LLC/Georgia Institute of Technology
11.30 Web Standards and SEO: Searching for Common Ground, Part 2
- Eric Meyer, Principal, Complex Spiral Consulting
- Aaron Gustafson, Sr Web Designer/Dev, Easy! Designs LLC
- Ed Shull, CEO, USWeb
- James Hagans, Blogger, Performancing
14.00 Content Distribution the Mobile Web
- Marc Brown, Pres, Buzznet
- Derrick Oien, Pres & Co-founder, Intercasting Corporation
- Andy Tiller, CTO, Cognima/ShoZu
- Paul Smith, Pres, mPulse Media
- David Snyder, VP desktop solutions and marketing in North America, Opera
15.30 WTF: WaSP Task Force Panel: Getting the Job Done Right (Links @ my del.icio.us)
- Steven Champeon, CTO, hesketh.com Inc
- Matt May, Dir of Technology, Blue Flavor
- Drew McLellan, Web Application Developer
- Dori Smith, Writer
- Jennifer Taylor, Macromedia
- Chris Wilson, Group Program Mgr, Microsoft
- Kimberly Blessing, KimmieCorp
- Molly Holzschlag, Pres, Molly.com Inc
17.00 WaSP Annual Meeting (Links @ my del.icio.us)
On saturday Tantek Çelik published his current thoughts on the topic that first brought him to my attention many moons ago: CSS hacks, especially his world-famous Box Model Hack and High Pass Filter. In his blog entry “Pandora’s Box (Model) of CSS Hacks And Other Good Intentions” which has been cross posted on webstandards.org, Tantek writes about the history of CSS hacks and emphasizes the current state of the art. A definite must-read of the “CSS Hackmeister”.
