I went to Webvisions PDX 2013 this year. This is the third year in a row I’ve been to Webvisions at the Portland Convention Center. It’s a good show but you can tell it’s struggling a bit to find it’s comfort zone. I usually attend the Web-related workshops and sessions. This year I did two workshops on CSS3 UI Design and CSS3 Animation. I really found Rachel Nabor’s CSS3 Workshop and session to be pretty enlightening but also got me thinking about ways in which to apply this fairly bleeding edge tech. The obvious downsides to CSS3 animation is that there are very few tools to animate with so it’s mostly code driven, which for longer animations can be awkward ...
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Thursday, 18 October 2012
There were some good sessions at Webvisions 2012 this year in Portland, OR. I had a busy schedule, so I was not able to attend the full second day. The highlights for me this year were the HTML5 game design workshop using ImpactJS and the ILM talk with Jeff White. I really liked seeing the visual progression of the Avengers and how large of a data flow multiple teams were working on.
Other great moments were the opening remarks by Baratunde Thurston. I’ve heard Baratunde before on Leo Leporte’s TWiT network, which is one of my favorite places for podcasts. He is a great and entertaining speaker. There was also a good talk on building web applications with web standards ...
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Webvisions 2011 was an interesting conference. I enjoyed the discussion by the producers of Portlandia ...
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