This weekend at Station C, there was Coder’s Saturday, a conference/meetup/camp which gathered 30+ web developers. The meetup was a joint collaboration between the folks from Station C, Nurun and Yahoo Québec.
The event came up with the venue in town of Christian Heilmann, from Yahoo! UK.
He gave a insightful presentation about how web developers should work with web standards, and also about the challenges about web standards. Christian Heilmann also gave his input about web accessibilty and usability issues.
We also had Ara Pehlivanian, who talked about web2.0 development. He works for Nurun, and said it’s important to understand usage of HTML, javascript, and CSS when developing a website. Great advice.
Sarven Capadisli also talked about microformats, and how it will help machines understand human meaning behind web documents. I am working myself with other fellow Montréalers on a microformat project and it’s great to hear about other developers evangelizing microformats.
There was also a presentation about the Google Web Toolkit, which allows web developers to build AJAX apps by using the java language, and Christian Heilmann sealed the day by presenting the tools made freely avalaible to web developers by Yahoo!.
This was a good surprise for me. I didn’t expect all the high quality and insightful presentations. Hats off then to the organizers for Coder’s saturday.
Patrick Tanguay introduces the conference.
Introduction by Karen Bennet, Director of Engineering of Yahoo! Canada (Toronto)
Attendees
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Montreal Tech Watch March 24, 2008
Report: Coder’s Saturday http://tinyurl.com/28show
Chris Heilmann March 24, 2008
Heri March 25, 2008
Thanks for the presentation by the way.