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Refresh Keynote

Posted in News on: Sunday, July 23, 2006 by Paul Boag

A number of people have asked me what I will be speaking on at the upcoming Refresh conference. Well, now you know.

The Refresh site now includes a schedule and description of the topics covered.

From folksonomy and web standards to and , the web is full of new techniques and philosophies. But how can all of these new approaches to web be applied to real projects for real that are constrained by tight budgets and tighter deadlines?

I am assuming that the majority of people at the don’t work for Yahoo or and aren’t going to be running some "trendy" web 2.0 company. My guess is that most will work for agencies or are in house within some large organisation. They will be dealing with the of "traditional" sites, which are more & focused rather than application led.

With this in mind, I want to talk about how to take some of the emerging technologies and apply them in a more traditional setting. We will cover, balancing the desire to integrate the latest "cool technology" with the needs of the organisation you are working with. In short we will be looking at how to be pragmatic.

If you have any specific issues you would like to see covered (whether you can make the conference or not, as I am sure they will podcast the event) then add a comment and I will see what I can do.

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Produced by Headscape

Boagworld is produced by the web design agency Headscape founded by Marcus, Paul and Chris Scott. Headscape also has a number of other talented guys who blog. Check them out.

  • Craig Rowe is one of our amazing developers and writes some superb posts on everything from .net to AIR apps.

  • Ed Merritt is a Headscape designer who's blog contains examples of his work and a number of free Wordpress themes.

  • Dave McDermid is a Headscape developer who has an excellent blog. He blogs on everything from AJAX to security.

  • Rob Borley is one of our project managers and blogs regularly on client and project management issues.

  • Leigh Howells is our multimedia design guru (whatever one of those is). He blogs on a mixture of design and music.

Paul elsewhere

Paul just can't shut up. He publishes regular audioboos, has a personal blog and is addicted to twitter. He also writes and speaks regularly. Check out the most recent below: