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Webmaster Jam Session recap part two

Monday, October 6th, 2008

This is the second part of a series based on my travels to the 2008 Webmaster Jam Session. I am writing this portion about the first day of the event as I sit at the airport ready to head home. So this is more of a recap of the past couple of days rather than [...]

Webmaster Jam Session recap part one

Saturday, October 4th, 2008

This is part of a series based on my travels to the 2008 Webmaster Jam Session. I am writing this portion about the time leading up the the main event as I sit at the airport ready to head home. So this is more of a recap of the past couple of days rather than [...]

Going to Atlanta!

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

Well, the time has finally arrived, Webmaster Jam Session! I’m pretty excited about this trip. I attended last year in Dallas and I learned a lot. I’ve been to a couple of different conferences so far and I think WJS has probably the most casual atmosphere. During the day web developers and designers have choices [...]

Webmaster Jam Session 2007

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007

This weekend, a co-worker and I will be heading to Big D for the Second Annual Webmaster Jam Session! The conference features presentations from many of the top developers in the country. Topics center around building standards based sites for even the smallest web shops. I hope to come out of this as a [...]

Preview of ColdFusion 8

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

This week, I went to Phoenix last night to hear a presentation by Ben Forta on ColdFusion’s upcoming release of version 8, codenamed “Scorpio.” We use ColdFusion 7 at work and so a co-worker and I went to Phoenix to see the new features. Forta, Adobe’s “Product Evangelist,” gave a presentation that covered three areas: [...]