[Joe Crawford <joe@...>] There was interest in Phil Greenspun's FREE
conferences -- it's short notice, but I've heard so many good things and
have enjoyed and learned so much from his books 'Database Backed Websites'
and 'Philip & Alex's Guide to Web Publishing' that I'm eager to get it
straight from the horse's mouth.
I may be interested in carpooling to the Saturday conference -- any
inquiries in this regard please send to mailto:joe@...!
Still not sure I'll attend the Sunday "Tools" conference. But I'm *totally*
into the Saturday one!

- Joe

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Via Matt Haughey
<http://www.haughey.com/>
And Web405
<http://lists.southland.net:81/guest/RemoteListSummary/Web405>
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Hey everyone, Philip Greenspun (the guy behind http://www.photo.net)
is doing two free all day seminars this upcoming weekend. They're
about half full now, and he wants to see more people. Anyone
remotely interested in moving from building images and text into
static pages should see Philip's talk. He introduces a new way of
looking at sites. He describes how to build web services that users
can interact with, and each other. He builds big honkin'
database-backed websites that can do some amazing things. The talk
on Saturday is light on the tech and more heavy on the "why sites
should be like this, what we can do with sites like this" sort of
thing. The one on Sunday is tech-heavy one done for programmers.
I've seen the intro talk and am attending the Sunday one.

I guarantee that his way of building, using, and looking at websites
will inspire you to think in bigger terms than what you're probably
doing now and build a truly interactive site.

If you've never heard of him, surf through photo.net or check out
his book, entirely online:
http://photo.net/wtr/thebook/

His message about this weekend's events is forwarded below:

Matt

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>
> From: philg@...
> Subject: Web Tools course on November 14, 1999 (Sunday)
>
> Okay, 120 people have signed up for the Web tools course at Caltech
> on Sunday but the room holds 275 (I think). So please call up the
> good programmers that you know and tell them to visit
> http://register.photo.net and sign up. Save them from a life spent
> not developing database-backed Web applications :-)
>
> (You can also invite business people who are really serious about
> building and launching a Web service. They'll appreciate the course
> though they'll miss 50%. If you have a friend with an MBA and a
> general interest, invite him or her to the SATURDAY session, which
> is much less technical.)
>
> If you're not coming yourself on Saturday, prepare by reading Chapter
> 3 of http://photo.net/wtr/thebook/
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Philip
>
> p.s. Please tell your friends in the Bay Area that I'm doing these
> classes up there on November 19 and 22 at UC Berkeley.
>
> p.p.s. If you can't make it on Sunday after all, you don't have to
> officially cancel.
>
> ------------------ server-generated directions
>
> You are registered to attend Web Tools for online communities in
> Pasadena, CA. The lecture is on November 14, 1999 and will begin at
> 10:00 AM.
>
> Directions to the event are as follows:
> The talk will be in Baxter Lecture Hall at Caltech.
>
> Caltech's Official Address is:
> California Institute of Technology
> 1200 East California Boulevard
> Pasadena, California 91125
>
> Driving directions from yahoo:
>
http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?Pyt=Tmap&addr=1200+E.+California+Blvd&csz=9
1125&Get+Map=Get+Map
>
> On-campus maps are available at:
> http://www.caltech.edu/map/
>
>
> The entrance to Baxter Lecture Hall is at the south end of building #77.
>
> There is a link to a printable version of the map and you can
> use the interactive Caltech Map (entirely created by an ArsDigitan)
> to look up "Baxter (Lecture) Hall" (Pull down menu at the bottom)
> and see pictures of the building.
>
> Some public parking is available at the West Parking Structure
> (building #123 on the printable version or #65 on the interactive
> map). Also, parking on most of the surrounding streets is
> permitted for the entire day.
>
> URLs for the classes.
>
> The Saturday talk is described here:
> http://photo.net/teaching/one-day-web.html
>
> The Sunday one is described here:
> http://photo.net/teaching/one-day-tools.html
>
> and they're at Caltech.
>
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Matt

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