Calling all speakers! A hardware button to toggle display mirroring
I’ve been really frustrated that my favourite keyboard shortcut to toggle display mirroring doesn’t work on TouchBar MacBooksso I’ve made a button that can emulate it! Of course since I’ve got this working I’ve discovered there’s a weird work-around to … There’s more
Upcoming ST4i and CreativeJS workshops
ST4i Amsterdam, second batch of tickets on Tuesday, and 2 UK CreativeJS workshops on sale now. There’s no let up this year as the first batch of ST4i Amsterdam workshop tickets sold out in 10 minutes, but don’t worry – … There’s more
How to ask to get paid to speak
New speakers often feel awkward about asking for a speaker fee, and some conference organisers take advantage of this by not offering you one. Some don’t even offer reimbursement for your travel costs. They’ll continue to do this as long … There’s more
Keynotes and comedy nights
I’ve got a couple of really fun speaking engagements coming up. Festival of the Spoken Nerd 16, 17, 18 April 2013 I was invited to do a short slot at the Spoken Nerd’s new material night in London last year … There’s more
Upcoming speaking engagements
After the dust has settled from a crazy few weeks putting PixelPyros together (more on that soon) I thought it’d be good to mention the conferences I’ll be speaking at over the next few weeks. dConstruct, Brighton UK Sept 7 … There’s more
Battle of the Browsers
image by Andi Smith I had a great time at the State of the Browser conference in London on Saturday – it was nice to see representatives from FireFox, Chrome, Opera and MSIE all getting along so well. Getting along … There’s more
On the road again – Germany, London, Amsterdam, Denmark, USA
flickr/hellogeri After opening the excellent DiBi in Newcastle, I’ve got a fairly crazy couple of months to get through – I’m really going to have to learn to say no… 🙂 First there’s BTPlay in Cologne, Germany, there may be … There’s more
Upcoming creative coding conferences in Europe
Here are a couple of events that I’ll be speaking at over the next couple of months and definitely worth checking out. FITC Amsterdam 27th-28th February 2012, Amsterdam, Netherlands I think this might be my fifth FITC Amsterdam in a … There’s more
Live iPhone coding video now online
I posted about this a while ago, but it’s taken Aral a little while to get the videos together. So here it is : me coding a kind of Angry Birds type thing in Corona live at the Update conference. … There’s more
Live coding examples from Beyond Tellerand
Sorry this one’s taken a little while to post! At Marc Thiele’s excellent conference Beyond Tellerand a couple of weeks ago, I live coded some snow and other things in JavaScript, and here’s the code. Keep an eye on the … There’s more