Simon is this incredibly rare combination of insightful and curious developer, broad and extensive knowledge of front-end development techniques, and a real motivation to me in his ability to inject energy into a community. Simon would be a huge asset to any team and I'm a bit jealous of the one lucky enough to scoop him up.
Paul Irish, Google Chrome Dev Team
This month we have another superstar up from Financial Times. We'll be getting a look in at some of the interactive graphics FT use, SVGs, D3, node.js and more! As well as the technical aspects, Tom will also be looking at some of the things that can go wrong and those things that can go right. Look forward to seeing you there!
Thanks to everyone that came to the McrFRED CodePen Google I/O extravaganza!
Interesting issue that cropped up whilst I was using a css gradient in Chrome.
Wassup! For this month's McrFRED I'm excited to announce we'll be doing a special CodePen event! Woop woop :)
Unfortunately due to unforeseen circumstances Andi won’t be able to make for McrFRED 25, but fear not the show will go on!
I'm happy to announce for Manchester FRED 25 we have AKQA's very own Andi Smith back for a second dose of knowledge intake.
Event date: 30th April, 2015
This month we have some of the talented folks from the Financial Times talking about Web Components. This McrFRED will be split up into 3 Acts and get a sneak peak to how the team use their in house 'Origami' to help set standards, conventions and tools for building websites at the FT.
This month I'd like to recruit some volunteers! For this month's McrFRED I'll be hosting a panel where I'll be joined by people in the industry who can offer some advice to students and those looking to start or who are interested in how others kick started their careers.
This year I'm co-running my first conference @upfrontconf. ConfConf was a great opportunity to attend a conference about running conferences (yes, oh how meta :smile:) and learn some great things to make @upfrontconf the best it can be.
Here are my notes from the event. I wrote these mainly for myself to jog my memory so apologies if things don't quite make sense. If you'd like something elaborating, please hit me up on Twitter and I'll try my best to clarify.
About 2 years ago I noticed that I'd started putting on weight. I've always been pretty skinny, reasonably healthy and never gained weight. I'm writing this at age 31 (yes, yes, yes, I know I look about 12 :wink:) and I remember being aged around 15ish and people pre-warning me that when I got to around 30ish that things would change. They were right.
This post is a brief account of my past, what I'm doing now, now that for the first time I've noticed weight gain and I aim that it will be something I can look back on, refer to and update in the future.