While not directly related to conferences, I think this is important information that conference goers should know before travel day:
5 things you need to know about laptop searches at U.S. borders - Be prepared if a customs official seizes your PC at the airport

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Via Brian Oberkirch, slides for Web Directions North '08 presentations can be found here. More specifically, slides from Oberkirch's excellent session are here.

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After getting home from Web Directions North, I came down with a head cold and was thrust into a flurry of work, hence the lateness and reduced relevancy of this post. Nonetheless…
The second day of the conference started with Innovation Is Underrated from one of the founding parters at Adaptive Path, Indi Young. She was […]

Today was a great day of learning at the Web Directions North conference in Vancouver, BC. This 2-day event (excluding workshop days, which I did not attend) is being held at the Hyatt on Burrard St., one of the better hotel conference venues I've experienced.
The day kicked off with a keynote by Jeffrey Zeldman, one […]

So, you've got a knack for spotting security holes, and have been thinking about devoting your career to the field of security? What better way to show the world your supreme talents than jumping on the conference speaker band wagon! Before you do however, take note of these cautionary tales:
Thomas Dullien, a prominent security researcher […]

The second day of the conference kicked off with a keynote by Brian Aker, the director of architecture for MySQL AB. Brian is an excellent speaker, and didn't let the problems with the projector distract him from his talk on scalable web architectures. As I have not worked on Amazon-sized projects before, a lot of […]