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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><title>d.Construct 2005 | Web 2.0 Conference, 11th Nov, Brighton</title><link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Presentations podcast" href="http://clearleft.com/dconstruct05/index.xml" /><style><!--/* Color===================================================*/body { background: #fff url(images/body_bg.png) top repeat-x; color: #333;}a:link { color: #369;}a:visited { color: #969;}a:hover { color: #c60;}a:active { color: #930;}h1,h2,h3,h4 { color: #8a1; border-color: #8a1;}pre { background-color:#F2F2EC; border-color:#999;}/* Typography===================================================*/* { font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; text-align: left; text-indent: 0;}body { font: 62.5%/1.6 "Lucida Grande","Trebuchet MS","Tahoma","Helvetica","Arial",sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;}img,fieldset { border: 0;}a { text-decoration: underline;}h1 { font-size: 3.2em; letter-spacing: -0.05em; line-height: 1.0;}h2 { font-size: 2.4em; line-height: 1.0;}h3 { font-size: 1.8em;}h4 { font-size: 1.6em;}p, ul { font-size: 1.4em;}strong { font-weight: bold;}pre { padding: 3%; border-width: 1px; border-style: dotted; overflow: auto;}#sidebar H4, #sidebar BLOCKQUOTE { margin-top:1em;}.over { font-size: 1.6em; font-weight: bold; padding: 1em; background-color: #ff9;}.over a { font-weight: bold;}/* Positioning===================================================*/body { padding: 2em 0; margin: 0;}#content { margin: 0 42% 0 8%;}#sidebar { position: absolute; margin: 0 8% 0 6%; width: 28%; top: 2em; right: 0;}ul, dl, blockquote { padding: 0; margin: 0;}.mugshot { float:left; margin:0 1em 1em 0; width:120px; padding: 2px; border: 1px solid #bbb;}ul { clear:left; /* woo hoo! */}--></style></head><body><div id="content"><p><img src="images/dconstruct-logo.gif" alt="d.Construct" width="473" height="92" /></p><h1>d.Construct 2005 - 11th Nov, Brighton</h1><div class="intro"><p>d.Construct 2005 was the UK’s first grassroots <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0">Web 2.0</a> conference. It was an affordable, one-day event aimed at those building the latest generation of web-based applications. The event discussed how new technology is transforming the web from a document delivery system to an application platform. Internationally renowned speakers covered hot-topics such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX">Ajax</a>, using the power of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/API">API’s</a> and the future of the mobile web. </p></div><p>Subscribe the the d.Construct 2005 podcast:</p><ul><li><a href="index.xml">Via our RSS feed</a></li><li><a href="http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=98231830">Via iTunes</a></li><li><a href="http://odeo.com/channel/39610/">Via Odeo</a></li></ul><p>Many thanks to <a href="http://allinthehead.com/retro/274/dconstruct-podcasts">Drew McLellan</a> for his generous assistance with the audio.</p><h2>The Speakers</h2><h3 id="andy">What is Web 2.0 by <a href="http://www.andybudd.com/">Andy Budd</a></h3><p><img src="images/budd.jpg" alt="Andy Budd speaking" class="mugshot" />User experience designer and upcoming author, <a href="http://www.andybudd.com/">Andy Budd</a>, discussed how the web is moving from a document delivery system to an application platform. Andy attempted to define what Web 2.0 really means and looked at some of the technologies and applications making this transition possible.</p><ul><li><a href="http://www.andybudd.com/dconstruct05/">Download Andy’s slides</a></li><li><a href="mp3/AndyBudd.mp3">Download mp3 of Andy’s talk</a> (34 Mb)</li></ul><h3 id="stuart">DOM Scripting and Ajax by <a href="http://www.kryogenix.org/">Stuart Langridge</a></h3><p><img src="images/langridge.jpg" alt="Stuart Langridge speaking" class="mugshot" />Web developer and author of <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0957921896/">DHTML Utopia</a>, <a href="http://www.kryogenix.org/">Stuart Langridge</a> discussed the resurgence of JavaScript and how, combined with XML, Ajax is allowing developers to create a new breed of rich Internet applications.</p><ul><li><a href="http://www.kryogenix.org/code">Download Stuart’s slides</a></li><li><a href="mp3/StuartLangridge.mp3">Download mp3 of Stuart’s talk</a> (36 Mb)</li></ul><h3 id="simon">Ajax and the Flickr API by <a href="http://simon.incutio.com/">Simon Willison</a></h3><p><img src="images/willison.jpg" alt="Simon Willison speaking" class="mugshot" /><a href="http://simon.incutio.com/">Simon Willison</a> from <a href="http://www.yahoo.com/">Yahoo!'s</a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com">Flickr</a> development team discussed the XML web services API that has lead to Flickr acting as a platform for other developers, and showed how the site itself makes use of the API with Ajax.</p><ul><li><a href="http://simon.incutio.com/slides/2005/dconstruct/AjaxFlickrAPI.pdf">Download Simon’s slides</a></li><li><a href="mp3/SimonWillison.mp3">Download mp3 of Simon’s talk</a> (27 Mb)</li></ul><h3 id="ben">backstage.bbc.co.uk by <a href="http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/">Ben Metcalfe</a></h3><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kurafire/62421888/in/pool-dconstruct05/" title="Photo by Faruk Ateş"><img src="images/metcalfe.jpg" alt="Ben Metcalfe speaking" class="mugshot" /></a><a href="http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/">Ben Metcalfe</a>, Project Lead for the BBC's developer network <a href="http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/">backstage.bbc.co.uk</a>, talked about how the corporation is encouraging and supporting grassroots developers who want to remix its content into their projects.</p><ul><li><a href="http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/misc/dconstruct.ppt">Download Ben’s slides</a></li><li><a href="mp3/BenMetcalfe.mp3">Download mp3 of Ben’s talk</a> (35 Mb)</li></ul><h3 id="tom">Web Everywhere by <a href="http://www.tomhume.org/">Tom Hume</a></h3><p><img src="images/hume.jpg" alt="Tom Hume speaking" class="mugshot" /><a href="http://www.tomhume.org/">Tom Hume</a>, Director of mobile design and technology specialists <a href="http://www.futureplatforms.com/fp/">Future Platforms</a>, examined and discussed trends in internet usage from mobile and handset devices. How come everyone in the UK is constantly online today? What's different about the mobile Internet? And where does this leave Bill Gates' vision of a PC in every home?</p><ul><li><a href="http://tomhume.typepad.com/d.Construct-2005.pdf">Download Tom’s slides</a></li><li><a href="mp3/TomHume.mp3">Download mp3 of Tom’s talk</a> (43 Mb)</li></ul><h3 id="aral">The state of the Art on the Flash Platform – by <a href="http://www.ariaware.com/">Aral Balkan</a></h3><p><img src="images/balkan.jpg" alt="Aral Balkan speaking" class="mugshot" />In this presentation, <strong><a href="http://www.ariaware.com/">Aral Balkan</a></strong>, showed the state of the art in Web 2.0 development on the Flash Platform. The talk covered a brief history of Flash and the road we've travelled, where the Flash Platform is today with declarative UI design (eg. MXML in Flex), the Open Source Flash movement and the future of the Flash Platform on mobile.</p><ul><li>Slides and podcast unavailable</li></ul><h3 id="cory">The Remix Economy by <a href="http://www.craphound.com/">Cory Doctorow</a></h3><p><img src="images/doctorow.jpg" alt="Cory Doctorow speaking" class="mugshot" />Member of the <a href="http://www.eff.org/">Electronic Frontier Foundation</a>, <a href="http://www.craphound.com/">Cory Doctorow</a>, discussed the history of copyright over the years and the effect it has played on innovation.</p><ul><li><a href="mp3/CoryDoctorow.mp3">Download mp3 of Cory’s talk</a> (35 Mb)</li></ul></div><!-- /content --><div id="sidebar"><p class="over">d.Construct 2005 is now over, but why not come back and see us at <a href="http://2006.dconstruct.org/">d.Construct 2006</a>?</p><h3>Quotes from d.Construct 05</h3><blockquote cite="http://www.glennjones.net/Home/Post/803/dConstruct2005-Thoughts.htm"><p>I really enjoyed d.Construct 2005 it was thought provoking and interesting.</p></blockquote><p>— <a href="http://www.glennjones.net/Home/Post/803/dConstruct2005-Thoughts.htm">Glenn Jones</a></p><blockquote cite="http://www.boagworld.com/archives/2005/11/enlightenment_for_the_web.html"><p>I want to thank everybody at Clearleft for putting this together. It would have been easy to turn down the opportunity to do this conference. I am glad they didn't.</p></blockquote><p>— <a href="http://www.boagworld.com/archives/2005/11/enlightenment_for_the_web.html">Paul Boag</a></p><blockquote cite="http://www.point-studios.com/archives/2005/11/dconstruct_resu.htm"><p>d.Construct was really a great conference I personally learned a lot from it.</p></blockquote><p>— <a href="http://www.point-studios.com/archives/2005/11/dconstruct_resu.htm">Abdelrahman Osama</a></p><h4>See also:</h4><p><a href="http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?q=d.Construct">Google blog search</a>, <a href="http://www.technorati.com/search/d.construct">Technorati</a>, <a href="http://morethanseven.net/dconstruct/">blog aggregator</a> and the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/groups">Flickr group</a>.</p><p><br /><a href="http://www.clearleft.com/"><img src="images/clearleft.gif" alt="Clearleft" /></a></p></div><!-- /sidebar --><script src="http://dconstruct.s3.amazonaws.com/js/dconstruct-status.js"></script></body></html>