Matthew Hutchinson

Chris Dorner (who has me on his blog roll ?!) – threw me a stick and asked me ‘which countries have I visited ?’, being a Friday afternoon, Im happy to respond;

The areas in red, are actually the places Ive visited -they DONT indicate the spread of communism around the world (created at World66.com)

Many of you may know I work as a Technical Project Manager. Today a fellow TPM came up with this response when asked for a short job description;

Fellow TPM

I am a synergistic facilitator empowered to provide technical solutions across convergent and parallel business workstreams, as well as mediating end-point QA utilising prescriptive enforcement and non-contractual guidance to achieve timely admissable delivery.

What’s your job description ?

• #cabal
• [04:56] @matt: railsconf is on tomorrow – chicago – http://railsconf.org/
• [04:57] @srushe: true, and in september in london.
• [04:58] @matt: i should have booked myself to go to that one – looks very good (over 4 days)
• [05:00] @jaffs: there’s a rails enthusiasts club up near Whiteabbey http://www.rpsi-online.org/
• [05:00] @matt: i cant believe I actaully clicked on that link with some enthusiasm, i am so niave
• [05:01] @jaffs: :))

The final day of @media was a little more packed with talks, having slightly re-arranged the schedule the previous day to account for the World Cup match.

Highlights included the panel debate during the JavaScript Libraries: Friend or Foe? talk, and Tantek Çelik’s bit on Microformats – Not really knowing what to expect from an event like this, I think managed to get something new out of most of the talks and it was great to see so many people enthusiastic about where web design and development is headed (for the next year at least).

Along with better wifi, something I thought was lacking – was some kind of online chatroom for attendees to communicate with – during the 2 days of the conference. Campfire or even just a formal IRC room would have been great.

I have uploaded the rest of my photos from the event, but unfortunately audio recording the talks myself, just wasn’t happening. Apparently a podcast for the entire event (and possibly videos) will be made available, most likely on the @media2006 website

Edit: All presentations are now available via this official Audio/Video feed

... from the gapingvoid