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BigBlueHat is the online persona of Benjamin Young. It was previously my web design and development firm of 7+ years. These days it serves as a container for my ideas, collaborations, and projects.
Where I've Been & What I've Done
- 2016
- Sept 19 - 23 - W3C TPAC in Lisbon, Portugal
- Sept 15 - 17 - REST Fest US in Greenville, SC
- May 19 - 21 - I Annotate & hack day in Berlin
- May 17 - 18 - W3C Annotation Working Group face-to-face in Berlin
- May 9 - 13 - Upgrading Our Apache at ApacheCon: Core in Vancouver, CA
- 2015
- December 8 - 9 - APIdays Paris running the Hypermedia Hackday & Introducing Hypermedia APIs on behalf of REST Fest in Paris, France
- October 26 - 28 - W3C TPAC for the Annotation Working Group Face-to-Face in Hokkaido, Japan
- October 1 - 2 - Find Your Way Around Apache at ApacheCon: Core in Budapest, Europe
- September 28 - 30 - Decentralized Document Delivery [slides] and Upholstering CouchDB at Apache: Big Data in Budapest, Europe
- April 13 - 14 - "Egocentric Architectures" at ApacheCon North American in Austin, TX [Slides]
- April 23 - 26 - I Annotate & Hack Days in San Francisco, CA
- March 19 - 20 - IndieWebCamp in Cambridge, MA
- March 17 - 18 - W3C Social F2F in Cambridge, MA
- March 17 (evening) - Annotator Hack Night in Cambridge, MA
- February 21 - Open[Upstate] Data Day in Greenville, SC
- 2014
- October 23 - 25 - Books in Browsers in San Francisco, CA
- October 27 - 30 - W3C TPAC & W3C20 in Santa Clara, CA
- September 25 - 27 - REST Fest 2014 in Greenville, SC [Slides]
- August - NoSQL Discussion at UpstatePHP in Greenville, SC [Video]
- April 7 - 9 - "Open Source Enterprise" at ApacheCon North America in Denver, CO [Slides]
- February 22 - Upstate Open Data Day in Greenville, SC
- 2013
- November 13 - Apache CouchDB Conf in Vancouver, Canada
- September 19 - 21 - Co-organizing REST Fest in Greenville, SC
- August 15 - interviewed for REST Fest on the South Carolina Business Review
- March 27 - 28 - attended POSSCON in Columbia, SC
- 2012
- November 7 - 8 - attended InnoMobility in Greenville, SC
- September 13 - 15 - organizing REST Fest 2012 in Greenville, SC
- July 16 - 20 - attended OSCON in Portland, SC [Video]
- May 15 - "Developing with Couchbase Part II: Advanced Document Design" at CouchConf Boston
- March 28 - 29 - attended POSSCON in Columbia, SC
- 2011
- November 10 - 12 - "Alternative Cloud Architectures with CouchDB" at Geekend in Savannah, GA
- September 18 - 20 - "Why CouchDB?" at StrangeLoop 2011 in St. Louis, MO [Press] [Video]
- August 18 - 20 - Co-organized REST Fest 2011 in Greenville, SC
- July 29 - "Designing Couchbase Documents" at CouchConf 2011 in San Francisco, CA [Slides]
- June 19 - Hack/Reduce in Toronto
- May 24 - NoSQL: Why, When, and How at Tek11 in Chicago, IL [Slides]
- 2010
- November 17 - O'Reilly Webcasts: "PHP and CouchDB"
- September 17 - 18 - Co-organized REST Fest 2010
- September 8 - 10 - attended CouchCamp 2010
- April 26 - attended WS-REST 2010
- February 23 - 24 - code4lib 2010, "Why CouchDB" [Video] [Slides]
- 2009
- 2008
- November 12-14 - attended php[works] in Atlanta, GA
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