GlasMug and Demystifying Web Development

Or a brief history of HTML…

GlasMug are holding their July meeting on Tuesday 10 July from 19:00 to 21:00 at Scotsys on Great Western Road, Glasgow. Highlight of the evening is apparently a session entitled “Demystifying Web Development” which I will be presenting.

It’ll start with “A Brief History of HTML” — a look at how we’ve arrived at where we are today with web development: the current standards, best practices, applications, and technologies. Then “The Future Has Arrived” — how we can take this forward to build Dashboard Widgets and Web 2.0 applications optimized for the iPhone.

For those with little or no knowledge of how the web works this session will hopefully help demystify the process of web development, and explain some of the technology and terminology behind the web. For those more experienced web designers and developers this session will hopefully reinforce current best practices, and provide an overview of where this development can take them in the future.

In addition, the meeting will cover new announcements from Apple — apparently they released some iPhone thing? — as well as provide an opportunity to get your Mac-related questions answered.

If you’re in the Glasgow area and have been thinking of attending GlasMug, please come along to the July meeting: where else are you going to get a session that combines HTML, CSS, t-shirts, pompoms, and also explains why PC-guy and Mac-guy are actually really good friends?