Simon Willison’s Weblog

I’ve (probably) been using Google App Engine for a week longer than you have. My snappily titled App Engine introduction, presented at BarCamp London 4.

# 1st June 2008, 3:02 am / appengine, googleappengine, barcamp, barcamplondon4, barcamplondon, my-talks

Debugging Django, a slidecast. I used SlideShare’s slidecast tool for the first time to synchronize audio of my Django London User Group talk with the slides. The talk included several live demos which aren’t represented in the slides so it’s a bit piecemeal in places.

# 25th May 2008, 2:47 pm / debugging, slideshare, slidecast, django, speaking, djugl, my-talks

Comet at the Highland Fling. I thoroughly enjoyed the Highland Fling yesterday. Here are the slides from my talk on Comet.

# 4th April 2008, 10:13 am / comet, highlandfling08, my-talks, conferences, javascript

How to make Ajax work for you. Slides from my three hour Ajax tutorial, presented at Web 2.0 Expo Berlin on Monday.

# 7th November 2007, 10:35 am / ajax, javascript, tutorial, web2expoberlin, speaking, my-talks

mySociety Disruptive Technology Talks. Four great talks coming up in London this Autumn, courtesy of the lovely folk at mySociety.

# 24th September 2007, 5:51 pm / mysociety, my-talks, london

Building the Social Web with OpenID. Slides from my keynote at yesterday’s PyCon UK.

# 9th September 2007, 12:36 am / slides, openid, pyconuk2007, pyconuk, keynote, slideshare, socialweb, my-talks, python

Advanced Django. Slides from my hour long tutorial at PyCon UK this morning. Most of the material was adapted from OSCON, but I also added a new section covering newforms.

# 8th September 2007, 1 pm / slides, pyconuk, newforms, django, pyconuk2007, slideshare, my-talks, tutorial, python

OpenID Bootcamp Tutorial. Slides from the OpenID Bootcamp tutorial I gave this morning with David Recordon.

# 25th July 2007, 12:39 am / openid, david-recordon, bootcamp, speaking, oscon, oscon07, my-talks

Django Master Class. Notes and slides from the OSCON tutorial I gave yesterday with Jacob Kaplan-Moss and Jeremy Dunck.

# 24th July 2007, 3:20 pm / oscon, jeremy-dunck, django, jacob-kaplan-moss, oscon07, speaking, tutorial, python, my-talks

The Django Web Application Framework. I’m slowly pushing my presentations from the past couple of years up to Slideshare. This is a Django talk from April 2006, so it’s a little out of date.

# 5th July 2007, 1:07 am / django, accu, slideshare, speaking, slides, python, my-talks

My Google Tech Talk on OpenID. I gave this extended and improved version of my “Implications of OpenID” talk at Google on Monday. Fast turnaround on the video!

# 28th June 2007, 8 am / speaking, openid, google, techtalk, google-video, my-talks

Doing Local Right. The slides from my presentation at @media 2007.

# 9th June 2007, 7:31 pm / atmedia, atmedia07, atmedia2007, django, lawrence, ljworld, my-talks, local

What the heck is HTML 5? Slides from my five minute HTML 5 talk at Oxford Geek Night 2.

# 12th April 2007, 2:41 pm / oxfordgeeknight2, oxford-geek-nights, whatwg, html, speaking, my-talks