Thursday, March 22, 2012
In Denver for DrupalCon. Breakfast at Pi Kitchen and Bar with Eric D. Keynote speaker: Luke Wroblewski (aka Luke W). Mobile is the high-volume endpoint of 3 concurrent trends. Content is the UI. Recognizr: facial recognition. Live translation app. Drush 5 to be released today. shell aliases: drushrc.php. usage tracking: off by default, can aggregate locally instead of MongoLab. drush make. drush 5 now has autocomplete. it has its own built-in web server. qd = quick drupal. queue features. multisite: site-set, site-reset. tapping into power of user narratives, michael keara: narratives, roles, idioms. 3 ux fundamentals: (a) avoid suffering, (b) usage context, (c) who is the user? and what are their tasks? role-oriented design: show exactly the right tools at the right time, nothing missing, nothing in excess. string theory. he says user strings should adapt to users. he argues that just like embedded scripts and embedded styles strings should not be embedded. user narratives module. "my role is" vs. "i am a". Closing session. Bath, dinner in room: leftovers + leftover brownie from tuesday's lunch, nap. Taxi driver jorge gave me a lift to Tracks. Met johnny josh jacob rhea ian. Taxi back to the hotel. Still sick with a cold all day today.