jQuery Conference Boston 2008

by toddynho on September 29, 2008

I attended the jQuery Conference yesterday in Boston. It was rainy and crappy outside, which made for a great day to talk about JavaScript. Overall, I thought that the conference was great, I enjoyed the division of an Advanced Track and a Beginner Track, but I still would have liked to see what was going on over at the Beginner Track since there were some great speakers on the agenda. My favorite speaker was Mr. Resig who talked about the State of jQuery and made an announcement that Microsoft will be including jQuery in its .NET distribution and Nokia will be integrating it into their widget development platform. While the reaction from the crowd about Microsoft might not have been very warm, I think this will be a good thing for jQuery. It means more people looking at the code and more people working to improve and further develop the framework, blah blah blah. So, good stuff overall.

I also really enjoyed Kevin Hoyt’s talk about using jQuery with Adobe AiR apps.  It was a nice intro to AiR which I have just not had a chance to look at until now.  I was annoyed when I heard that Aza Raskin wasn’t going to be there for his talk about using jQuery in FireFox extensions, I was very much looking forward to that.

The conference was on $50 and you got a free t-shirt too, can’t beat that. I also ran into my buddy Frederick from W3EDGE.  Now, how long do you think it will take me to convert HubSpot’s YUI over to jQuery??? ;)

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Inbound vs. Outbound Marketing / Mac vs. PC Spoof

by toddynho on September 22, 2008

Check out this video inbound marketing video from HubSpot.  Funny stuff:

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SEOMoz, here’s your own official Fail Whale

by toddynho on August 12, 2008

OK, so as you can see, I have only two posts on this blog both about fail whale’s… these people just need to keep their websites up so that I don’t have to make anymore fail whale’s.  Feel free to copy the image, but please do link back to WebsiteGrader.com for me ;)

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GMail Fail Whale

by toddynho on August 12, 2008

Yesterday when GMail went down, my friend Dan who sits on the other side of the tree next to my desk said “hey Todd, you should make a GMail fail whale”.  So, I did.  Dan posted the image on his blog and I also emailed it to TechCrunch since they had a story going on the GMail outage.  Luckily, TechCrunch picked it up, and credited us for the image.  The story was also picked up by the Washington Post (who syndicated from TechCrunch) and has resulted in a little bit of traffic.  Not bad for some unintentional link bait.  Thanks to TechCrunch for publishing the image and crediting us with a link back to WebsiteGrader.com!

Here’s a screenshot of the imge on TechCrunch:

GMail Fail Whale as seen on TechCrunch

GMail Fail Whale as seen on TechCrunch

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