Sunday, March 11, 2007

SXSW Day 2 - No Notable Mentions - A few lackluster panels.

The panels I attended during the day left something to be desired.

  • Why XSLT is Sexy
  • Web App Autopsy
  • Unleashing CSS:How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Internet Explorer 7
  • Ruining The User Experience

So because of this I am not dedicating an entire post to them. The first started out good, but jumped around so fast and quick that it felt a bit confusing. I think in the future it would help if besides grouping the panel into a particular topic, that it was grouped categorically by beginner, intermediate, and advanced tags. That way you kind of knew a bit more about what you were getting into.

On this same note if the Panel Topic Titles were a bit more reflective of what they actually were. This brings me to "Web App Autopsy" It turned out to be nothing more then an expose on 4 companies. There was one interesting part though when they spoke about the lines of code and the platform/technology used build the different applications (blinkspace, regonline, wufoo, feedburner).

Web App Autopsy
I was really hoping the topic would focus on which web parts worked and which didn't and how they were dissected, analysed, scrutinized, and redesigned into functionally working parts of a massive web application. A true autopsy of the app and not a statistical break down / expose of the aforementioned companies.


The unleashing CSS class was similar, it had a few good tips in it, but had way too much of a history lesson. I would have liked to seen more tips and less history .

Ruining The User Experience was really short 30 minutes and was really general, mostly commonsense. Going back to my labeling this would be considered a beginner topic.

Let's see what the panels today are aboutt o revewal.

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