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Brendan Eich’s talk

I’m on the Brendan Eich’s talk about JS 2.0 – it’s great. Sorry for lack of updates, I have photos, and posts for every day, and I’ll push them in few hours. 🙂

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“Think different” – genius

Think twice before wasting your life to follow the old rails…

After Blog Let’s WOW!

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XTech 2006 – day 0/1

The flight was bad, as always with LOT Airlines. I landed around 23:00, found Termie and Nadia, they got me to their place (which is awesome!), I took a shower, and went for a beer with Andy. Few beers, few hours and we were back home got some sleep. Day 0 is ready. (shots from Amsterdam: [1], [2], [3], [4])
Day 1 started at 08:30 am, shower, cornflakes, short web lurking, and went to XTech.

The first talk was awesome. Simon was presenting the JS framework that seems to be great. After few minutes of lurking, I see that their library is not that great (Animation module seems to be very poor),
but it’s still worth contributing and I’m considering using this as a JS lib for Bugzilla. (shots: [1], [2], [3])
They also made a poor job on browser detection, and I hope it’ll get better now.

Next talk was led by Termie on behalf of Alex Russel from Dojo. Termie’s speedtalk was without of slides which was good, because if people would be forced to try to understand termie at his speed talking, and scan the screen, they’d be doomed. Termie/Alex was talking about Web 2.0/Ajax culture, reasons behind it (it’s evolution, not revolution, it’s the logical next step, not a buzzword).

Short break, and we got to OpenLaszlo talk. OpenLaszlo seems to be very, very powerfull platform, with possible drawback on code cleannes. It allows you to create rich web applications and then select the result technology (actually – flash or dhtml/ajax). It could be extended to work with XUL, XAML etc.

Next talk was about Hijaxing. I’m happy that someone did a talk about the way I believe Ajax should be developed. It was basicly against-ajax-lock-in talk about creating pure HTML code first and the putting fancy Ajax on top of it to simplify the world for ajax-capable browsers. Actually, in my work on Bugzilla UI, I’m doing even one step earlier: I model the UI first, do usability, review, then code pure, accessible HTML, and then put Ajax on top of it. I’m using this approach since my first Ajax-y work, and this made me not understand W3C freaks screaming that Ajax is “not accessible” – Ajax has nothing to do with accessibilty or it’s lack. If you want to create accessible page, you can. Also, “Web 2.0” is also about standards, usability and accessibility, so it’s obvious that more web 2.0 means more fun for people with disabilities.

Then we went for a lunch with Pike, Termie, Andy and Gijs. Lunch took us a bit too much time, so we missed Developing Enterprise Applications with Ajax and XUL.

I didn’t like the Adobe’s talk, which came next. Possibly, I’m just too much anti-flash and sad-that-adobe-focused-on-flash-instead-of-svg, but the talk was pure marketing and I never enjoy marketing talks.

Then, after next small brak, the talks went crazy, not following Schedule at all, which makes it impossible for me to report what happened. The lightning demos didn’t show anything new to me, but it’s nice to see people focusing on usability and user workflow quality more these days.

After the talks we got for a free wine/juice/water+small junks of food sponsored by Mozilla, and then we went for a dinner with Michael from Opera, Tristan, Ian, Termie, Gerv, Gijs and Hish. Dinner was great, food was good, and beer was … well, beer 🙂 We got some pictures of toast made by Opera, Flock and Mozilla all together! :] (shot: [1])
From dinner place we did move to drinking place, and then to another, another, and we ended around 2 am with Ryan from Technorati, Ian and Andy walking amsterdam streets and steping in every possible pub on our way 😉 It was great.

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X-tech 2006

Today, on 8:00 pm I’ll leave Warsaw Airport on my way to Amsterdam where I’ll join the Flock Amsterdam Team (Termie, Ian) in the X-tech quest.

The bad news is that I just got email from Alex Russel that he won’t be there. 🙁

My personal schedule:

Tuesday:

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday & Sunday: Barcamp Amsterdam II

Groovy!

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Konferencja Web 2.0

14 czerwca, w Warszawie, odbędzie się pierwsza w Polsce konferencja w całości poświęcona Web 2.0 (przy pełnej akceptacji niejednoznaczności tego buzz-worda).

Mam nadzieję, że tematyka okaże się dla Was ciekawa, a ponieważ będę mówił tam o Web 2.0 z punktu widzenia epicentrum (jakby mówić o kinie popularnym z punktu widzenia Hollywood), chciałbym lepiej odnieść się do tego jak Polacy patrzą na to zagadnienie.

Bardzo by mi pomogło gdybyście podali w komentarzach swoje największe wątpliwości i pytania dotyczące Web 2.0.

P.S. Flamy będę jak zwykle kasował.

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Interview from FOSDEM

Tristan Nitot’s post reminded me that I also was interviewed by Source21 during FOSDEM 2006. I’m not 100% happy about this (I hate when people say this “iiiiii” between words, and that’s what I did here – shame on me 🙁 ), I was very tired, after many hours of work, but I hope that you’ll find it interesting enough to watch 🙂

Gandalf’s interview from FOSDEM 2006.

Update: The interview took place 3 months ago. Since then we improved our product management thanks to amazing work made by Mark and Bart and Geoffrey, and if you want to see what’ll be in the Cardinal – look at the Product Specification.

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Fx on google.com!

Oh yea… Each IE user from US visiting google.com will see a link to download Firefox 😀

Kudos to Paul Kim! It’s the first time ever a third party product has been featured on google’s main page!

P.S. By the way, www.ie7.com is NOT connected with any Mozilla Foundation part.

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Friends

See, it’s sometimes that you just *think* that the world works in some way, while it appears that you’re wrong.

I had it today. I always thought of Microsoft, as the company, that morphed from the company that got computers to users, into a selfish giant that is too stupid to stop thinking only about money and domination. It seems that I underestimated them. Maybe they don’t speak too much about it, but under the hood, they sponsor many interesting, open source projects…. including Firefox. Nice :>

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Meet Mr. Face

Acid2 in Firefox nightly Ok, mister Fanatic, you saw that in Safari, iCab, Konqueror and Opera. Now you can see it in Firefox 🙂

Sooo… Mr. Fanatic, meet Mr. Face.

Mr. Face, meet Mr. Fanatic. He’s been waiting for you for many months, and he’s probably very happy now to see you in such a great shape. I hope you’ll stay friends 🙂
P.S. Kudos and credits goes to Mr. Incredible for his reflow branch!

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FlockHQ

I made some short photo set from Flock new office 🙂

Click here