Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:56:35 +0000 No Comments

HTML5 Presentation - Frederick Web Meetup

I recently had the pleasure of presenting at the Web Technology of Frederick meetup group in Frederick, Maryland.  My topic was HTML5 and whether or not, as web developers, we should be paying attention.

Forgetting about the 30 minutes of technical difficulty at the beginning of the presentation (the projector wasn't cooperating), I thought things went very well.  Though the crowd was small (~9 attendees), they were talkative, and this was the highlight of the night for me (along with the after meetup beers at a local bar).

HTML5 Topics

My talk focused on the following items:

I spent the majority of my time tyring to put together a decent collection of examples.  You can find these examples in my BitBucket repository.  I'd like to note that most of my examples were borrowed from elsewhere.  Any failure to provide appropriate credit has been unintentional.

Why?

About a month ago I volunteered to give a talk about HTML5.  My desire to give this talk came from the fact that I felt under-educated.  I figured this opportunity would provide me with the push I needed to dig in and learn more. As a result, I definitely feel more connected to what is going on.  Hopefully I still feel the same 2 months from now.

As a web developer, I feel like I have many responsibilities.  One of which is to remain connected.  The more education I have now, the better prepared I can be to make good decisions when the time comes.  Under the right circumstances, you can start using a lot of what HTML5 has to offer right now.  Unless you make the effort to educate yourself though, this set of options won't even be available for you.  As far as I'm concerned, it is worth the effort.

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