Nathan McDonald

It's a full 24 hours late and it is a wall of text; the day two wrap up of Remix South 2012 . The day began much less hectic than the prior, considering the fact Bill Buxton's Keynote was the first thing on the schedule. The excitement was rife and a the room was packed with everyone eager to hear Bill Buxton's words of wisdom. One of the major things that struck me in the earlier part of Buxton's keynote is everything is an application. He used the Kindle Fire as an example and that hardware and software have become indistinguishable; but despite that out devices see to remain disconnected from each other. He mentioned the seamless flow of transaction between our devices, an example being Bluetooth calling in our cars and that the devices integrate into one and gracefully separate. Considering Buxton is the Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research I wondered how much of this thinking inspired the Xbox Smart Glass ? The keynote ended in huge applause...

Today was the first of two days in the Remix South convention and this is my wrap up the day and the things I learned. After running the front with the Remix South team and getting all the registered member's their name tags, schedules and raffle tickets; (winners will be announced tomorrow - as well as the prizes ) I made my way to Modern Web Development Workshop. Shawn Wildermuth was the speaker and this workshop focused on building a web page with better server communication. I moved on shortly after the introduction of jQuery and moved onto the other workshop: Professional Sketching - by Jason Alderman . One of the things that stuck in my mind that Jason had said to me prior at the AWDG meetup, "sketching doesn't necessarily mean artist skill but what can be applied in your daily workflow". Later in the workshop the room was spit into groups and we had a team project of creating a photo to printer app; which involved group brainstorming, accessib...

Remix South 2012 starts today and this isn't not only my first big industry event - but also my first time volunteering. Super excited and I'm going to try my best to blog about the Keynote, UX, Web and Startup panels. Stay tuned! Follow all the Remix South happenings: Website:  http://remixsouth.com/ Twitter:  @remixsouth Facebook:  /remixsouth

My first tackle at mobile development on the Blackberry Playbook. This is only a virtual emulation of the accelerometer and tapping. I have deployed this to a physical Playbook. Check out the video!