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					On 19/07/06, Daniel Hilton <daniel.hilton at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is anyone going to d.construct in Brighton?
>
> http://2006.dconstruct.org/
>
> Do you think it's worth it or will just be a room of web 2.0 fanboys?

I went last year (and my mug is on the web site, FWIW :p). It was
worth it in terms of hearing about (as Joe Clark might put it) some
"other people's internets" [1]. For me, Aral Balkan's Flex talk was
the real eye-opener for me, positing Flash as a rich internet app
platform. Cory Doctorow was excellent too, but in a more abstract way.

There wasn't quite the current Web 2.0 backlash at the point in time
of last year's conference (November 2005), so whether d.construct 2006
can survive said backlash remains to be seen. I do know that the
speakers are sound, and that the ClearLeft guys (Andy Budd, Jeremy
Keith and Richard Rutter) are well into doing things the right way:
"Hijax" (progressive enhancement) etc, rather than rushing a product
to market with a lazy implementation.

I'd go again, except I'm on holiday in (hopefully) sunny Cornwall at the time...

HTH,

Tim

[1] http://blog.fawny.org/2006/06/21/wrong/