FOWD 2008 London - (the conference)
FOWD 2008 got off to a promising start when I met Jeremy Keith getting off the Tube, we chatted as we waited in the monster queue outside Kensington Town Hall about a wide range of topics from DOM Scripting and Microformats to our new Macs.
I had intended to “live blog” throughout the day , but in the end I didn’t Jeremy has a pretty good summary of the days event on his blog. On the whole the sessions were very good - there were a couple of low points, namely the sponsors “little chats”.
Far and away the worst was buy some guy from an agency who had used Silverlight to develop a new “car configurator” for Aston Martin; He long overstayed his welcome on stage and by the end of it everyone was properly confused as to the point of the whole thing. When the Adobe rep got up in the afternoon to do his Flash / Flex presentation and produced not one but two car configurators we all had a good laugh.
Paul Boag did a great job of putting together and chairing the day, his “talky bits” could have been
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We’ve started using jQuery quite heavily to power our javascript widgets - without exception everyone who’s used it here has had their own little jQuery epiphany. It’s quite funny to watch, people tend to resist it to start with (particularly the hardcore coders) - but when they use it for a while and see how much pain it can save you they soon come round.
One thing that was missing until now though was a way of getting jQuery intellisense in VS2008. Yesterday I spotted this article by James Hart which describes how this missing functionality can be be added. You need to make sure that you have this Visual Studio 2008 Hotfix installed then follow the instructions in James’ article and as if by magic you’ll have intellisense for your jQuery code! This has gone down a treat here and looks set to make life an awful lot easier.
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