Sealan Cronin

I made a rare trip across the city last week to be at FOWA held in the ExCeL. I had an awesome time. Met lots of great people and absorbed a ton of information. I stuck mainly to the developer track where speakers such as Kevin Rose of Digg and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook (the special guest!) spoke about, well, the future of web apps!

I’m writing some blog posts for my company’s blog about FOWA at the moment, which I’ll also post here. I suppose the main focus of FOWA was on the use of open technologies (in order to mashup applications together) and scalability issues with successful web applications, such as Twitter. I especially enjoyed the YUI talks given by Christian Heilmann. So impressed, I bought his JavaScript book in order to brush up and rid my bad scripting habits!

It was a good learning experience (my first commerical conference) and the free bar at Fox afterwards was a whole lot of fun!