It’s been a while since my last entry, and while I don’t have anything really exciting to say, I do have a few little things to tell you all about — so it seemed like a good time for an update.
Read on for some news on a couple of speaking engagements for me, and a new feed available for your consumption at JeffCroft.com.
South by Southwest
I’m once again getting excited about Southby, which is only a month away! Matt Croydon, Nathan Borror, and myself will be representing the World Online crew down in Austin this year, and I’ll also be taking my girlfriend Michelle along for the ride.
I’ll be participating in a panel on Sunday morning. The title is Design Workflows at Work: How Top Designers Work Their Magic. To that end, we’ve got three top designers on board in Bryan Veloso, Veerle Pieters, and Kelsey Ruger, who is he panel organizer and moderator. We’ll also be surveying several of your favorite web designers in and effort to figure out just how they do work their magic. Should be a good one. Don’t miss it (because really, I don’t want to speak to an empty room. Thanks.).
Matt, Nathan, Michelle and I will also be repping Team Midwest in the second annual Avalonstar Bowling Extravaganza, along with Wilson Miner, who has decided to grace us with his presence despite having become a San Francisco yuppie bitch, and James Asher, who sucked so hard last year that we had no change to beat Team Pixelworthy (which has, of course, been re-christened Team Happy Cog). Hopefully we’ll have a better showing this year.
I’ll also definitely be at South by Northwest, as well as probably every other party with free drinks — so look for me!
I hope to meet a lot of you at SXSW this year — so if you haven’t already, go get yourself registered. The deadline for early-bird discounts is February 9th.
Future of Web Design
The kind folks at Carson Systems asked me to be part of the their first Future of Web Design conference on April 18th in London, and I couldn’t be more thrilled about it. You may be familiar with their awesome Future of Web Apps series — and if not, you should be. They have had some great talks, and they’ve released MP3s of all them; trust me, you want them. So Future of Web Design is a new event that is similar in concept, but specific to web design, rather than web apps.
For my part, I’ll be joining Florian Schmitt of the great London agency Hi-Res! to discuss the intersection of Flash and Web Standards. We’ll be talking about the pros and cons of each for various uses, when one might be the best tool for the job as opposed to the other, and how the two can play nicely together.
I’ll be speaking alongside some freaking brilliant people — I feel really honored to be part of this. I hope I can live up to how great I know everyone else will be.
This, of course, means I’ll be in London during the week of April 16th, so if you’re in the area and don’t mind giving a bloody yank a few tips on the city, let me know! :)
Feed updates at JeffCroft.com
I finally moved my main RSS feeds over to FeedBurner. When I realized I was getting an average of 15 hits to a feed per minute, I figured it was time to offload that work to someone else’s server. So far, I’ve been very impressed by the service. Check them out if you want high-performance feed caching and/or good stats on your feed’s readership.
In addition, I’ve created a new feed which aggregates most of the other feeds into one. The Everything Feed includes my blog entries, comments at JeffCroft.com, my ma.gnolia links, my Flickr photos, and my twitter status updates (which, frankly, are few and far between). I suspect the audience for this one won’t be that great, but I wanted it for myself, and it seemed appropriate to expose it to the public, as well.
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001 // James Asher // 02.05.2007 // 12:32 PM
It is my pledge this year to not suck as bad as last year. If I do, I’ll just buy my teammates drinks so they won’t hate me.
002 // shelbybark // 02.05.2007 // 12:38 PM
I really went back and forth over whether to try to go to SXSW, and I’m sure I’ll kick myself for not going…
Oh, and I’d be very interested in hearing how you handled your “everything” feed. Was that with some Python magic or is there a way to do that through Feedburner?
003 // Kyle // 02.05.2007 // 1:05 PM
I’ve been kicking myself for missing the last SXSW, but I’ll be there this year. Looking forward to the panel!
004 // Colly // 02.05.2007 // 1:35 PM
I’ll finally get to meet you Mr. Croft. I won’t be at SXSW (again, sigh) but I’m sure we’ll find some time for a chat at FOWD, where I have the “graveyard shift”.
005 // Dan Mall // 02.05.2007 // 2:48 PM
As part of the previous Team Pixelworthy/new Team Happy Cog, we’ll be sure to challenge you guys to a rematch, even if we don’t get to play officially.
We also wouldn’t mind a round of Wii bowling if you so desire :)
006 // Ryan Berg // 02.05.2007 // 4:36 PM
Wish I could scrounge up the cash to get down to Austin. Conference ticket isn’t so bad. It’s the damn hotel costs.
007 // Joshua Lane // 02.05.2007 // 6:24 PM
Allow me to talk some smack on behalf of Team Method Arts. We shall be kicking much “butt”… oh yes. And as much as I adore my former Pixelworthy mates… sorry, you’re going down!!
008 // Joe Murphy // 02.05.2007 // 9:44 PM
Jeff, hey, so I’m curious: By how much did the hits on your feeds drop when you shifted to FeedBurner? I mean, what do you do for the folks / bots already attuned to your local feeds?
009 // Jeff Croft // 02.05.2007 // 10:15 PM
It’s all Python. I use almost exactly the same view I use to create my Lifestream, but use a template that outputs XML instead of HTML. Using a template for RSS isn’t really the “right” way as far as Django is concerned — it would probably be better to use the built-in feed framework. However, the built-in feed framework is designed to handle feeds of like items, not disparate items, and while I’m sure you could use it with disparate items, it seemed like a lot of work when I could write a template in next to no time. :)
I’m scared.
I’m down.
Definitely, Simon. I was stoked when you name got added to the speaker list. Can’t wait to meet you!
I redirected them to FeedBurner. No one should be hitting the local feeds now, because no one but me (and FeedBurner) knows the URLs. :)
The URLs that used to point to local feeds now point to FeedBurner.
010 // Jeff Wheeler // 02.06.2007 // 6:27 PM
I think there’s about a 90% chance that I’ll be there. If I go, I’d definitely like to meet up… I’ll be at your presentation, for sure. :)
011 // Erik Sagen // 02.06.2007 // 9:29 PM
Jeff, it was awesome meeting you last year and it’ll be great to hang with you again for the forthcoming Southby.
Can’t wait to see your panel as well. Funny how most of us who spent time together last year (whether brief or not) will now be participating on panels this time around.
I’ll be on a panel called The Influence of Art in Design with Rubin, Peck, Sims, Shea and Haney. Woo-boy!
012 // Dave Child // 02.14.2007 // 8:28 AM
I’m really looking forward to FoWD, actually.
I recently switched all my feeds to Feedburner as well. A massive amount of bandwidth and processor power was being used by feed requests and farming most of those elsewhere (not the comment or category feeds - just the main ones for now) has saved me upgrading my hosting, at least for a few months.
013 // Rob Goodlatte // 02.16.2007 // 10:10 PM
I’ll be sure to swing by your panel, you’ve got an all-star lineup there
014 // Maaike // 03.28.2007 // 2:52 PM
I’m really looking forward to your talk at FOWD. My second ever design conference, yay!