A few weeks back, I attended ICER 2013 at UC San Diego. Afterwards, I
went up to San Francisco and had some adventures there (and at
Yosemite), and then spent time in Vancouver seeing friends before coming
home.
ICER this year was a solid conference, as
always. I liked that this year things reverted to having two minute
roundtable discussions after every talk, before the Q&A. It makes
for a much more engaging conference.
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| All hail the UCSD Sun God, who benevolently oversaw the conference. |
My favourite talk this year was definitely Tom Park et al's "
Towards a taxonomy of errors in HTML/CSS".
HTML/CSS tends not to get studied in the CS ed crowd, and as Tom's talk
illustrated, that's a big shame. HTML is for many people the first (and
sometimes only) formal language that they encounter.
