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Hurricane Busch Gardens
Thoughts on my ridiculously long list of favorite, starred, forwarded and RTed items. And photos. Mostly photos.
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Random thoughts on TXJS
Thinketh has been much more of a photo blog lately, but I had such a blast at TXJS I felt I had to share. Here are some random thoughts on the event held this past weekend in Austin.
- Tom Hughes-Croucher’s session on YUI + Node.js was the most entertaining speaker of the day with his Unicorn on Narwhal slides, code Rick Rolls and most of all comic-sans-ed slides.
“I can do the whole thing in comic sans, and you’ll still gonna come away loving it.” -Tom Hughes-Croucher
- Node.js was the darling of the day with Croucher and Tim Caswell showing off some fun demos.
- Paul Irish’s talk on digging into jQuery brought up some useful ideas. It also introduced me to the following syntax for self-invoking functions that I wasn’t aware of
!function(){//Self invoking code}();
- Tom Occhino from Facebook was another session that I enjoyed. He gave the crowd the lowdown on some of their in-house systems like Primer and Quickling. Something to think about whenever I have a team of 300 engineers.
- I was a bit surprised to see a CSS session at a JS conference, but Nicole Sullivan’s talk on Massive CSS Mistakes was one of the most immediately relevant sessions and sent me home with actionable items.
- Kyle Simpson introduced a new middle-end layer. Still wrapping my head around that idea but I’ll give it a whirl along with his BikeChainJS.
- Mac Book Pros dominated the conference. Saw a smattering of iPads and a couple individuals taking notes with old school pen & paper.
- iPhones were the norm with android phones sprinkled in.
- Lunch was delicious, but layout of said lunch was befuddling to say the least.
- I recorded all of my sessions and took notes using SoundPaper on the iPad. After a full’s day of recording and tweeting, I was around 50% of battery life. Pretty impressive, but would definitely like to hear what other people were using to record and take notes.
- Tom Hughes-Croucher’s session on YUI + Node.js was the most entertaining speaker of the day with his Unicorn on Narwhal slides, code Rick Rolls and most of all comic-sans-ed slides.
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A very realistic steak-on-fork billboard in North Carolina that makes me more hungry than usual. How’s that?
The Bloom grocery store chain, part of Food Lion, erected the giant sign at 1220 River Highway, between a Shell gas station and a storage facility, to promote its new brand of beef. It’ll disperse the scent during rush hour, from 7 to 10 a.m. and from 4 to 7 p.m., every day until June 18, and is visible to drivers heading west, toward Catawba County. It pairs the smell with a big visual, showing a giant piece of steak and a French fry on a giant fork, and is one of the first of its kind in the country.
Gross or ingenious? Or both? To be honest, I’d rather be smelling steak than skunk while driving on the highway.
/via gizmodo
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