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Conferences 2006, Part III

No sooner have I returned from my USA trip than I have to think about the next steps. I now have two exciting speaking engagements and a couple of fun side-trips planned. I've decided not to return to living in London once the snowboarding season is over; I'm going to go wherever work and speaking takes me, and take a month or two living in each place along the way. I'm very much looking forward to taking on freelance work and getting back to making things on the internet again.

Latest itinerary:

• 1-8 April - Snowbombing in Mayrhofen, Austria with some much-missed clubbing mates from London
• 24 April - return to London for some meetings and to drop off my winter gear
• 29 April - relocate to Amsterdam
• 16-19 May - XTech 2006. I'll be co-teaching the Get Started with Ruby on Rails tutorial with Edd Dumbill and speaking on Putting the BBC's Programme Catalogue on Rails
• 14-18 June - in Barcelona for the Sonar festival
• 22-25 June - off to the US to speak again on Putting the BBC's Programme Catalogue on Rails at RailsConf in Chicago.
• July/August - living and working in Amsterdam
• 24-28 July - OSCON in Portland, Oregon (possibly)
• 25 August until late October - California

Gosh, that looks like quite a lot now I've written it out. My trip to ETech, SXSW and London was just wonderful, and if I have even half as much fun and meet half as many awesome people on the next trip, I'll be over the moon.

The Application of Weblike Design to Data: Designing Data for Reuse

My esteemed former colleague Tom Coates has been giving a talk recently entitled Native to a Web of Data: Designing a Part of the Aggregate Web. It's a tour de force journey through key issues and implications of the renaissance in web thinking that's happening right now.

In his talk, Tom very kindly references a talk I gave at last year's XTech conference. It's based on a great deal of work he and I did together at the BBC, and endless conversations that we've had on the nature of the web. It's called The Application of Weblike Design to Data: Designing Data for Reuse and hopefully those slides are some use to those seeking background for Tom's narrative.

I'm not living in London at the moment so I missed seeing Tom present at the recent Carson Future of Web Apps event. Luckily, they've made MP3s available of all the talks there, so you can hear the talk too. I just saw him speak at ETech 2006, and I was blown away by the clarity, consistency and depth of the ideas. Don't miss it.