How do you get beyond that point of being only a code-monkey. What’s your ideal career? What are the roadblocks? What are the solutions?
- Presenter(s)
- Andrea Hill
- Michael Krotscheck
- Date
- 15 March 2010
- Tag(s)
- #forgingidealcareer
make me a damn good manager!
Happy people do better things. It’s easier to be a bad manager, harder to be a manager that has a happy team that will “go to war for you”.
When you are managing teams, your job is to make people successful.
- Presenter(s)
- Andre Gaulin
- Date
- 15 March 2010
- Tag(s)
- #damngoodmanager
- Site
- damngoodmanager.com
results-only work environment
This panel is packed. Could people really want a new way to work? And they gave us their book just for attending. That convinces me they believe themselves when they say “this is a social movement”.
Transition from attendance-based to results-based compensation
This is a culture change. Give people autonomy to do your job as long as the work gets done, the results happen. Instead of work being a place you go, work should be something you do. In a ROWE, each person is free to do whatever they want, whenever they want as long as the work gets done. Pay employees to get an outcome, instead of paying them to “do a lot of stuff” and not get an outcome.
As the job market starts to improve, people are going to changing jobs during a time when people are focusing on happiness; finding work that is important/personal to them. If organizations want to keep their people, you need to think about the way your employees work. ROWE is here to stay!
- Presenter(s)
- Alexandra Levit @alevit
- Cali & Jody @caliandjody
- Jeff Gunther @jeffgunther
- Jessica Lawrence @jessicalawrence
- Date
- 15 March 2010
- Tag(s)
- #rowewhyitworks
- Site
- ROWE
beyond algorithms: search and the semantic web
Future of search from the perspective of semantics. Using the data on the web began with search (literal match), evolved to specific/contextual answers to specific questions, and could move on to asking the web to do something for you more than just answer questions.
Should we drop the term “Semantic Web” and replace it with “Computable Web”?
- Presenter(s)
- (lots)
- Date
- 14 March 2010
- Tag(s)
- #beyondalgorithms
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your design process is killing you
There are markers and paper being distributed, butcher paper being put up on the wall. Get ready to touch and feel, people.
- Presenter(s)
- Sara Summers
- Date
- 14 March 2010
- Tag(s)
- #designprocesskillingyou
javascript architecture: the front and back of it
UI Architecture: all the stuff that it takes to process, package, deliver, and communicate with the client (templating url routing, data validatiion, formatting, ajax). “Between the front and back end”: stuff between presentational javascript and the backend logic. The middle end gives a web 2.0 app performance.
We need to talk about this because of issues with performance and optimization, the MVC model spaghetti code failure (outputting html if a condition exists: the mixture of model code inside view template, too tight coupling between presentation layer and model layer), “don’t repeat yourself” (DRY: repeating code over and over again, i.e., duplicating validation in the client and the server, “any time there is more than one copy of something, one copy is always wrong”), and role separation (wearing multiple skillset hats and mixing contexts–markup/css switch to javascript switch to backend app–without being able to focus on one context at a time).
This isn’t another framework, it’s an optimized/reworked “alternate pattern” of MVC in an attempt to solve some of the weaknesses/problems of MVC. Can we decouple the view from the existing architecture stack?
CVC + JavaScript puts the power of UI architecture in the hands of front-end engineers.
- Presenter(s)
- Kyle Simpson
- Date
- 14 March 2010
- Tag(s)
- #frontandbackofit
- #jsarch
- Sites
- Getify
- Demo of HandlebarJS
- Speaker Feedback
- BikechainJS
- HandlebarJS
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kristina halvorson: rock star
content strategy FTW
[ I usually don’t copy/paste from the brochure, but this one had the best hook that I couldn’t write better myself. ]
11th hour copy. Fix-it-later launches. Our users deserve more than the last-minute content we often get stuck with. And you have the power to change the game. Learn how to introduce (and sell) content strategy into your web design process.
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I have a feeling this presentation is going to make the best podcast to listen to. Kristina is awesome. She’d better put this on slideshare.
- Presenter(s)
- Kristina Halvorson @halvorson
- Date
- 13 March 2010
- Tag(s)
- #contentstrategy
- #csftw
- #contentstrategyftw
- Books
- Content Strategy
the ten commandments of UX
UX is a thread that runs through all of our disciplines, and which no discipline owns or controls. Everyone is a UX professional to one level or another (“t-shaped people”).
- Presenter(s)
- Raina Van Cleave @rainaterror
- Nick Finck @nickf
- Date
- 13 March 2010
- Tag(s)
- #10commandmentsofux
- #uxsxsw
- Books
- Rosenfeld Media: discount code NICKFINCK
- Sites
- What is UX?
web framework battle royale
Web frameworks make building websites easier. Common tasks are abstracted for faster development. Here is an analysis of five different frameworks: Zope (Python), Rails (Ruby), Sinatra (Ruby), Seaside (Smalltalk), and Symfony (PHP).
- Presenter(s)
- (lots)
- Date
- 13 March 2010
- Tag(s)
- #frameworkbattleroyale