With 2010 well under way now it’s interesting (to me) that for once I’ve actually got an archive of something. Most things I tend to do fizzle out and when I get an idea it dies pretty quick. Trust me if I get an idea and there is money in the bank I’ll buy a domain for it. The idea may never go further than that but some of them do.
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Many of you who’ve stumbled across my blog may not know about this little event I run called the Web Developers Conference which takes place now annually.
The third event took place last Wednesday (21st October) at the Watershed in Bristol. Some 70 odd people were able to attend the event which was a great turn out. They were lucky enough to enjoy talks from Jon Hicks, Sarah Parmenter, Elliot Jay Stocks and Dan Donald with 3 panels covering everything from working on the web industry, working in the south west and actually getting that job and what to expect from it.
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If you follow me on Twitter you’ll be aware that I’ve recently moved my hosting over to (mt). I made the move after hearing from so many people how great the service was and for $20 a month it was cheap as chips and being a student the less it costs the better.
With it being so cheap I thought I’d even celebrate the occasion by buying myself a domain name. Thankfully AlexOlder.com was available so for $5 I got hold of it and set all my (mt) stuff up under it. This brought the number of domains I own up to a grand total of 9. It’s ok though, 1 of them is for a friend’s site I designed and offered to host and another is for the girlfriend’s University society.
It was one hell of a week last week!
First off since September 2007 I’ve been planning the second Web Developers Conference event, WDC2008. It started off having to find a date people could make and one which didn’t clash with event’s going on at the Watershed. Now you’d think this would be pretty easy, but it really isn’t!
It has to been a Wednesday so students like myself on UWE’s Web Design degree have the time away from lectures to attend the event. It has to be long enough to get everyone who is there to speak/sit on a panel a chance to speak, but short enough so students don’t walk off half way through the event. Last year it was horrible seeing students walking away but we hope to have got that sorted. What student doesn’t like a free beer?