…and it was OK. I think this is more a reflection on my third-time veteran status and general knowledge level than anything else though. Whilst I didn’t learn a whole bunch of new stuff - it wasn’t very technical / techniques-based this year was it? - there was plenty of inspiration from the presentations and after-conference chatting to be had. The food once again was great and I was very surprised how long that bar tab lasted Thursday - a pity about the music volume again and the fact that we couldn’t drink outside.

• Best presentation: Nate Koechley’s excellent “High Performance Web Pages”.
• Inspiration 1: Jon Hicks’ (and Andy Clarke’s) mood board for getting some ideas for a web design. Look out for my mood board on Flickr perhaps as I pull some ideas together for version 3 of this site. I’m not sure if it’s what Andy means by “British” web design but there’ll be some British icons getting stuck to the virtual board…
• Inspiration 2: Jason Santa Maria. Thank you too.
• Wouldn’t it be cool if? I was thinking about the new WCAG 2.0 colour contrast ratios and thought that perhaps a tool could be created (you’re going to tell me this is already been done I can tell) that can parse your CSS file, flag a manual check if a background-color property doesn’t have a corresponding color property (and vice versa) and let you know if the ratio is sufficient. I know Gez Lemon’s Firefox extension does the latter but this could be rolled inside Firebug? Actually, my main “wouldn’t it be cool if” point was having browser functionality that done this and knowing the hex values from the CSS and having an internal colour wheel provided a couple of buttons to increase or decrease the contrast whilst sticking to the general colour scheme. Did that make sense? Pipe dream anyways…

As ever, the best bit was meeting old friends and making new ones - if you’re here via a Moo card do say “hi!”.

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