2006 at 01.15 pm posted by Veerle Pieters
I’m sitting in the lounge, waiting for the cab to take us to the airport. SXSW is all wrapped up for us. The city has been taken over by all those weirdo rock types joining the music conference. Too bad that most of the people hanging around are less friendly, and that’s a bit of a downer after all those hugs and vibes going on yesterday. It feels like you’re left with an emptiness. It’s back to virtual again ;) One thing is for sure SXSW is very good for networking and making new friends. Finally we can put a face to all those bloggers, designers and developers.
2006 at 12.10 am posted by Veerle Pieters
It’s weekend here in Austin and today is the first official day of SXSW. I’m finally starting to adjust to the time deference with Belgium. Our trip over here was so exhausting. We started with a 9 hour flight to Chicago followed by a 3 hour flight to Austin. To be honest I was kinda forgotten how hard it is. Times have definitely changed since my last trip to the US. I can’t remember exactly how many security points we have past but a lot, including one where you need to take your shoes off, laptop out of the bag etc. Understandable but still after being stuck on a plain for 9 hours a friendly talk or gesture could do wonders ;) Our trip was like 24 hours in total and we literary crashed at the hotel and went to bed at 9pm. At 3am we all woke up and after that we counted the hours on the clock ;)
2006 at 03.11 am posted by Veerle Pieters
It is unbelievable how fast the last few days have been passing and I can’t hardly believe that as of tomorrow I’m on a jet plane to Austin, Texas. I had some ideal scenario in my head that I would have enough time to tweak some nuts and bolts on this site but that will have to wait until I get back. Between satisfying my clients and close running projects there aren’t just enough hours in a day. My RSS reader has 415 unread articles showing and it’s driving me insane so I just close it ;) I will get that number down on the plain ;)
2006 at 10.52 am posted by Veerle Pieters
The Live coverage has been reworked into an article.
Retail Update
Like always the keynote started with a little update on the retail side. Apple now has 135 Shops around the world and those stores had 26 million visitors during holiday quarter. For the first time those stores had their $1 billion quarter this past quarter.
2006 at 11.44 pm posted by Veerle Pieters
In my 2005-2006 post I talked about about two speaking engagements. Well now that cat is out the bag I guess I can talk about it here ;-) My first trip of the year will be to Austin Texas for SXSWi. You can imagine how much of a surprise it was when my mailbox contained an invite from Nick Finck.
2005 at 12.46 pm posted by Veerle Pieters
Hi there, Kenneth here, Veerle’s regular PHP developer (she even called me a php guru once, though that’s overstated). I just came back from AFUP‘s Forum PHP ‘05, the fourth edition of a yearly gathering of advanced PHP programmers in Paris. And boy was it interesting. Two days simply packed with great advice, demos and an insight in the future of PHP. (see the overview of all sessions here)
2005 at 07.31 am posted by Veerle Pieters
End of Summer yesterday but not according to the weather gods. In other words such a beautiful day for a visit to the “City of Light”. We arrived at noon after a 3 hour drive from our hometown. It’s amazing that we survived Place de la Porte De Maillot and Place de l’Etoile. Driving there is a bit like in the Far West, a place where there aren’t any rules anymore and it is everybody for themselves. The weapon of choice is the hooter and you got to have eyes everywhere. A bit of a nightmare if you haven’t got a clue where to go… Luckily our kamikaze driver Kenneth did! :-D
2005 at 12.40 am posted by Veerle Pieters
Today Apple Expo Paris 2005 starts. To great disappointment of many there isn’t a keynote of Steve Jobs at Palais des Congr�s. We had plans to go too, it was our intention to leave for Paris late Monday afternoon and explore Paris a bit in the evening, stay at a nice hotel and wake up early for the keynote. We still don’t know exactly what the reason behind this cancelation was. I can’t imagine that the iPod nano was the culprit here, but whatever the real reason (if any) is only time will tell. So time for plan B ;-)
2005 at 06.13 am posted by Veerle Pieters
I am probably the last of the bunch but my pictures are finally available on Flickr from my trip to London. So if you are interested in a visual journey of my trip please check out my 2 sets:
Luckily I had a little help from my boyfriend to put them online because it is business as usual again here. Hope you like them.
2005 at 01.45 am posted by Veerle Pieters
The @media conference
Lots of people have already posted an extended review of the @media conference , while I was enjoying London during the weekend. So I’m just gonna post my impressions and give you some of the highlights. Jeffrey Zeldman‘s keynote speech was a perfect starter for this conference. After all he is the (famous, at least in ‘our’ world) man that inspired us all and made us care for web standards. Same goes for Molly Holzschlag, she is a real pro and gave us some promising news, an exclusive that we have to keep for ourself at the moment since it hasn’t been officially announced yet.
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