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The speaker interviews: Rives

In the second of our speaker interviews, we caught up with Rives. 1) Once a poet, always a poet? Or, have you always been a poet? Or, one day did you just start? I remember writing poems as early as age seven. But it wasn’t until the song parodies of my tween years that I really hit [...]05
Feb
2010
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The speaker interviews: Brian Fling

In the first of our speaker interview for Webstock 2010, we talked with Brian Fling. In addition to speaking at the main conference, Brian is also taking a workshop, ‘Designing mobile experiences‘. 1) The past year has been pretty busy for you. Tell us what you’ve been up to. What? It has been a year already? Wait… [...]03
Feb
2010
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Ch-ch-ch-changes

So we have some good news and some bad news. Let’s start with the bad. We’ve received some news. Bad news. Two of our wonderful Webstock speakers, Khoi Vinh and Jessica Jackley, told us they were unable to make it due to unexpected, Bigger-than-Ben-Hur work commitments. Webstockers – we’re sorry. We know this is a real [...]29
Jan
2010
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The sponsor interviews: SilverStripe

For this interview we chatted with Brian Calhoun, CEO of SilverStripe, the Gold sponsor for Webstock 2010. 1) What’s the brief potted SilverStripe history and how did you come to be involved with SilverStripe? We’re a web development company based in Wellington and we were founded in 2000. We open sourced our web Content Management System in [...]19
Jan
2010
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10 reasons you should attend

There's five to convince your boss and five just for you. Go look!