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The Browser and Beyond. April 3rd 2008
Symposium Hall, Edinburgh
Enjoy a day of the web's best speakers discussing the future of information online.
The browser and before
The theme of The Highland Fling conference is that web is changing to become more than the web. But this change is not new -- the web has always been in flux, even since the earliest days. Being a professional on the web has always meant keeping up to date and embracing new techniques and technologies.
Take a trip through memory lane, as seen through the eyes of a "jack of all trades" and what it took to end up being a web developer at Yahoo! amongst all of this change. Then look forward to the Brave New World beyond the browser and what this might mean for individual developers.
Mark Norman Francis, Yahoo!
About Norm
Mark Norman Francis has been working with the internet since before the web was invented.
He currently works as a Web Architect for the world's biggest website, defining best practices, coding standards and quality in web development internationally.
Previous to Yahoo! he worked at Formula One Management, Purple Interactive and City University in various roles including web development, backend CGI programming and systems architecture.
He pretends to blog at http://marknormanfrancis.com/ and plays around with personal content aggregation at http://cackhanded.net/.