I missed GeekMeet yesterday because I “had” to join in on the company pool tournament and free-beer thing, but lucky enough we had the opportunity to listening in on Chris Heilemann not once, not twice but three times today. He made a really good presentation for the whole department where he focused on where the web is today and where he thinks it is moving, really nice for business owners who still believe the web today is the same as 5-10 years ago. Later on we had the same presentation as he held during GeekMeet about performance and how a leaner front-end can make wonder on site performance and user experience. I believe Yahoo is doing a great job here, and it was nice to listen in on Chris input and ideas. Finally we listened in on how to manage JavaScript in larger teams, this is something that will be very important on my department where we are a lot of Web Developers and JavaScript knowledge is widely spread from beginner to more savvy developers. Interesting. If you get the chance to listen and talk to Christian, take the time. He is enthusiastic, funny, professional, pragmatic and obviously he loves his work. He made my day better, and I felt confident that we will build better products when I left the office (hopefully the feeling is still there on monday when reality hits the fan).
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I am happy it worked out for you and it was great to come to the office and talk to people. I think that people that normally hang out at conferences should come to offices much more to be able to help the “guys in the trenches” to entice their management to take a risk and go for things that are the right way but not obviously useful in the short term.
Chris Heilmann´ s last blog post..Geekmeet Stockholm – Performance and Play
“entice their management to take a risk and go for things that are the right way but not obviously useful in the short term”
That is what I am trying to do right now actually, and hopefully presentations such as yours together with smaller threats
will make a change in the long run.