Another Webjam down, another series of mind explosions!
Webjam10 was bubbling with energy last night. 21 presenters delivered 16 exciting presentations, ranging from spinning dollar signs and text-based AR to gorgeous vector graphics and the history of the Australian web.
Thank you!
It would never have happened without all our awesome sponsors: Atlassian, Happener, Anchor Systems, Doing Words, Campaign Monitor, Meld, DirectSMS, Zebra Research, and Unwired. These are the companies and people who make our events possible. I can't state often enough that without sponsors and without the support of the incredible Webjam contributors who volunteer their time, skills and energy to help make the event and site work. Going above and beyond last night were Lisa Miller and Mike Koukoullis for bravely manning the door; and Lincoln Stoll for fixing bugs on the live site in real-time from somewhere in London as the event progressed. Massive thank you to those three and everybody who helped out.
Prize-winners
The place-getters all demonstrated technically brilliant products with gorgeous simple elegant results. Third place on the evening went to Greg Turner for a recent project visualising The History of the Australian Web. Ben Schwarz came second with his inspiring project for reinterpreting the web, Smoke — a simple Ruby DSL for grabbing and merging content from any site on the public internet that's also available as a server plugin. Both were amazing projects, but the obvious winner on the night was Dmitry Baranovskiy. He launched the utterly gorgeous gRaphaël client-side graphing library. Based on his own Raphaël, it helps you draw stunning vector-based dynamic charts. gRaphaël currently supports Firefox 3.0+, Safari 3.0+, Opera 9.5+ and, yes, Internet Explorer 6.0+.
The Skinny
Such a great night, so much content. You can relive the evening, check how sober you looked or just look up some of the great speakers and projects on the event page for Webjam10. Tweets and photos are already flowing in. Don't forget to tag yours!
I'll leave you with a list of all the presentations, in order, but first, thank you all so much for attending, being cool, and making this evening what it was. We donate our time, our money, and sometimes our sanity, to make something wonderful for our community and the vibe last night made it all worthwhile.
Thank you.
- Augmented Reality Google — Mark Pesce
- Web Application UI Showcase — Chris Mills
- The Art of Sleep Hacking — Jason Crane
- HTML 5 Video Accessibility — Silvia Pfeiffer
- Decaf Sucks — Max Wheeler & Tim Riley & Hugh Evans
- The Punch — Paul Colgan
- Next Sydney Ferry & TweetFrame — Jean-Jacques Halans
- Reinterpreting the Web in 180 seconds — Ben Schwarz
- gRaphael — Dmitry Baranovskiy
- Funky New Web Development Features in Opera — Lachlan Hunt
- So how much money are you making on the interwebs? — Myles Eftos & Grant Bissett & Ben Giles
- Tweetr - a jQuery plugin for tweets — Craig Sharkie
- The History of the Australian Web — Greg Turner
- QRTL — James McParlane
- Opera Unite — Daniel Davis
- PaperFree — Jason Patton & Wayne Butcher