Kings of Code 2008

Last month I first heard of ROFLCon from a coworker who asked for a couple of days off to go to Boston to attend this convention.  Well when he went I was doing some searching on Flickr and watched blogs to see if I could see any pictures of him from the uploaded pics.  Needless to say we didn't see any pictures of him.  I did however see 10 or more pics of John Resig and 100+ images of Jay Maynard (the Tron Guy).  So needless to say we are on the verge of firing our employee for lying to us about attending a convention he obviously didn't attend (I am only joking about firing him...or am I?).

Anyways, the point I am trying to make is that I felt that I in some way experienced the convention through the eyes of everyone that attended.  There were countless photos, video's, blog posts and twitter was huge as well.

So today I heard about the Kings of Code conference that is happening in the Netherlands today.  I only heard about it because John Resig is a speaker.  So I try the normal routine of doing flickr searches and blog searches on Kings of Code.  Sure enough I got enough info from people that posted on it that I felt like I truly experienced a part of it.

First I started out with the conferences web site (which is translated via Google Translate) and I got a sense of who the speakers are and what the schedule is like.

I then went to Flickr to see if there are people there that are posting pics.  This usually tells me if there are people there who are willing to post info on the conference.  Sure enough there are people posting pics.  And there is a picture of John speaking.  So that's cool I get the feel of how big the conference is and what the stage and stuff look like.

Now let's see if I can dig up what the speakers are actually talking about.  I go to Google Blogs (or Technorati) and do a search for Kings of Code and sort by date added.  Jackpot, I stumble on to Gijs van Zon's blog who live blogged the whole thing. He broke it up by per break.  We need to use Google Translate again and the translation isn't 100% perfect but you still get a lot of the information that was presented. Here are his live blogs:

• Javascript Events and NetLog
• W3C and CakePHP
• Yahoo! and Open Source Pitches 
• eBuddy and jQuery - Mozilla 

I found some of the info in these talks useful and I wanted to share.  Thanks to those who posted pics and took the time to live blog the conference for those of us on the other side of the world to enjoy.

Update: With a little more digging I found some live streams of John Resig's talk.





(Photo from flickr user Inferis. Used under Creative Commons license.)