Posts tagged with barcamp
Barcamp: this is a placeholder
A few weeks ago I promised Kevin from TechYizu that I'd do a talk at Shanghai Barcamp. "What will the talk be about?" he asked me. "Just put a placeholder in the list of talks for me", I replied.
I got distracted doing other things and the placeholder talk sat there in my calendar, reminding me about the event on September 8th. So in the end, I decided I'd prepare a talk... on placeholders!
I'm going to try to persuade you that placeholders - those little pieces of text that hint to you what the real content will look like - are worth your attention. There are four reasons why...
60-second elevator pitch at Barcamp
Vincent Wong was making 60 second elevator pitches for companies at Barcamp Shanghai. Here’s mine for RD 
(Update: Here's the URL in case the embedded video doesn't display http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/XC2VFmQJa8g/)
Love Hotels and Unicode
On Sunday 28 October I attended Shanghai Barcamp 9, organised by TechYizu. It was great to catch up with everyone in the local tech scene. Barcamps are "unconferences", meaning anyone can show up without registering, and give a talk on a geeky topic of their choice.
Here's my talk from the event, on love hotels and Unicode.
HTML5′s missing tag: sarcasm
I attended Barcamp Shanghai (Twitter: #barcampsh) at the weekend. It was an entertaining day with talks and demos on a variety of geeky topics. Here's a reproduction of my talk about HTML5's missing tag: <sarcasm>.
ReignDesign attending Barcamp Shanghai!
We're happy to announce that the ReignDesign team is a proud sponsor of this year's Barcamp Shanghai! We attended the previous Barcamp Shanghai in June, and held a very fun and insightful workshop on designing an iPhone app in fifteen minutes.
We'll be providing refreshments, and our team will be giving presentations on mobile technology, and some of the fun and interesting stuff we do here at ReignDesign. We'll be tweeting live from the event, and will have a Twitter station available for all attendees to post their thoughts.
BarCamp Shanghai takes place on this Saturday, December 5th, from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm. For more information, be sure to check out the BarCamp Shanghai website.
Hope to see you there!