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May 30, 2005

XTech

Last week I was at the XTech conference in Amsterdam. That was a good experience. I met a lot of the people in the Mozilla community in person for the first time. IRC, IM, e-mail, etc. are good tools and a good way to communicate, but meeting people in person still beats it (luckily :-) ).

I also saw a good deal of interesting talks. All the talks I went to were between “ok” and “pretty good”. With one exception though. As opposed to glazou. I think Paoli’s talk was immensely boring. He said a few interesting things, but the rest was a MS sales pitch. Not what I had expected from a closing keynote.

glazou has put pictures of a lot of the Mozilla people, including me, in his blog post btw. Thanks for that Daniel!

I had a couple of days of touristing before the conference, and I must say that Amsterdam is a very nice city (pictures here). I loved all the small old canalhouses, the canals, narrow streets, etc. There’s also restaurants and cafees by the hundreds. Nice ambience and “walking-friendly”. I can recommend taking a couple of days off to see the city. I look forward to going back.

Posted by beaufour at May 30, 2005 11:19 AM

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cafées?

I think you should serve your page as unicode :).

With regard to Microsoft’s sales pitch, well, they’ve now software-patented XML serialisation and deserialisation, so what’d you expect? -_-;;

~Grauw

Posted by: Laurens Holst at May 30, 2005 1:30 PM

Great photos! Keep an eye out for EuroOSCON in Amsterdam in October - http://conferences.oreillynet.com/eurooscon/

Posted by: Brian King at May 30, 2005 1:54 PM

Ah, yes apparently something is wrong with the charset…. hmmm, bad Moveable Type, bad! ;-)

Oh, well the easy thing is just not to use special characters…

Posted by: beaufour [TypeKey Profile Page] at May 30, 2005 7:16 PM

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