Archive for 'conference'

IT360 Notes – Ajax in the Real World Part 1

This is a three hour tutorial from Kris who is pushing his Ajax book. It will go over, from start to finish, the creation of a sidebar chatbox that’s database driven and Ajax enabled. I’m not going to type up pieces of code but I will note concepts. Firebug is a firefox extension that allows [...]

Trapped at IT360, what a time for Twitter to be down ..

Twitter is temporarily toast it seems. I’m at the Metro Toronto convention centre in a presentation on Ajax right now. It’s three hours, I’ll post it in segments. I was disappointed that there’s no MS vs CLUE brawl. And I laughed at the guy trying to poach people at the cira booth. “I’ll do dot [...]

IT360 Notes – DNS Holes

I came 5 minutes late to this presentation due to the keynote running late. Oops. Starts out with DNS 101 explaining the very basics of a DNS server. information gathering dns DoS, dns usually not as hardened but it’s very important and taking out dns effectively makes a network inaccessible example of dns ddos: botnet [...]

IT360 Notes – Wikinomics keynote

Writer of the Wikinomics book, Don Tapscott is giving this presentation. His book is on mass collaboration. He’s from New Paradigm. His book was given out with the expensive passes. All non-reserved seating is used. There’s about twenty people standing five minutes prior. Thirty-something two minutes prior to start. This has a lot of notes. [...]

IT360 Notes – Using RSS Feeds lecture

This first semenar I visited was conducted by Kris Hadlock of Studio Sedition. He’s an AJAX designer and wrote Ajax for Web applications, published by O’Reilly. I’m already pretty familiar with RSS 2.0 but I did find the bit on the cloud tag interesting. Also, I was surprised that the skiphours tag can have an [...]