Paris Web – Working in the now
Yesterday I was one of the speakers at Paris Web and my talk was “Working in the now”:
Working In The Now - Paris Web
My presentation covering several ways how you can use nowaday's free web offers to save money and time for your company and thus securing your job.
Originally I meant to talk about HTML5 goodies and how to simulate them with Flash and DHTML right now (writing a small abstraction library) but seeing the latest rounds of crashes and layoffs I changed my stance and talked about things that we could be doing now to both secure our jobs and not lose all the momentum the standards movement got in the last few years.
I’ve explained the reasons and my thoughts on the subject in detail in another post here. In the talk I advocated re-using components and systems we already have to work faster, deliver better and have less hardware and software overhead in doing so.
These are:
- Design Patterns, Design Pattern Stencils
- CSS frameworks: YUI grids, YAML, 960, Blueprint
- Exceptional Performance Tips, YSlow, Hammerhead
- Fix your picture sizes with smushit.com
- Page widgets (things that HTML doesn’t have): YUI, jQuery UI
- Build an own search engine with Yahoo BOSS
- YouTube API
- Amazon S3 for storage
- Batch video conversion with Amazon S3 and EC2
- Captioning on a shoestring with CastingWords
- Mechanical Turk
The feedback so far was great, but there was also a lot of “yeah this is open source, but what if the company running it goes down and how can I trust it” questions. I will write something longer abut this soon, it is just very interesting to see that there is a big problem with free things and trust.
Tags: creditcrunch, css, maintainability, opensource, paris web, parisweb, pw2008, reuse, savingmoney
November 14th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Great presentation! Very proactive. I like that you cover present day concerns and offer useful resources we can start implementing at work today.
One quick question … Did you change your RSS feed recently?
I was subscribed to http://www.wait-till-i.com/wp-rss2.php and missed some of your recent posts.
I’ve subscribed to the current feed at
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November 17th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
Hi Chris,
I do not understand enough English to follow your talk. Fortunately, I can read slides.
But I am so happy to have seen you again :)
kisses
Monique
November 19th, 2008 at 9:26 am
November 19th, 2008 at 9:33 am
I’ve forgotten to ask you something in my last comment : will you be at the next YDN presentation in Grenoble next month ? I would be very happy to see you there :-)
November 19th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
Sorry for the last question, the answer (yes) is on your blog…
December 5th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
> but what will happen if this company become part of another big company which is not for opensource at all ?
Well, what is currently released IS open source for real, that can’t be changed. That’s why free software is so great.