{"id":209,"date":"2006-11-08T00:42:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-08T05:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/?p=209"},"modified":"2006-11-08T00:59:04","modified_gmt":"2006-11-08T05:59:04","slug":"an-event-apart-mmmm-mmmm-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/an-event-apart-mmmm-mmmm-good\/","title":{"rendered":"An Event Apart &#8211; Mmmm Mmmm Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the moment I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeldman.com\/\">Jeffrey Zeldman<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/meyerweb.com\/\">Eric Meyer<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonsantamaria.com\/\">Jason Santa Maria<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/molly.com\">Molly<\/a> working the conference registration desk, I knew that this truly was &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aneventapart.com\/\">An Event Apart<\/a>&#8220;.  Imagine walking in to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drafthouse.com\/\">Alamo Drafthouse<\/a> and having Zeldman hand you your badge and thank you for coming.<\/p>\n<p>The dynamic for the day was really set at that registration desk and the funky movie theatre venue.  It was almost like sitting down with your favorite web heroes for a comfy chat.  Jeffrey, Eric, Jason and Molly shared recent lessons learned and asked what we wanted to know.  The atmosphere was laid back and comments and questions were frequent, welcomed and clearly shaped the conversation.<\/p>\n<p>A few of my favorite moments from AEA-Austin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Seeing inside Jason Santa Maria&#8217;s sketchbook.  Watching a design idea develop from pencil and paper to finished product. <\/li>\n<li>Being able to talk to Jason and Eric about how they work together during the design process.<\/li>\n<li>Enjoying the mental exercise of thinking from the content out from Molly (who never fails to inspire me with her creative and agile approach to web design).<\/li>\n<li>Watching the CSS Master explain the One True Layout&#8230;helping us all see the way to become one with the code (while looking like an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/glsims99\/291712394\/\">Oompa Loompa<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>Learning how Jeffrey squeezes the best out of every word when writing the user interface.<\/li>\n<li>Realizing how lucky we are to have leaders in this industry who are so genuinely friendly and interested in making a personal connection with people who make websites.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And in true geek fashion, the day ended with a happy hour and a half, sponsored by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knowbility.org\">Knowbility<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebelmontaustin.com\/\">the Belmont<\/a>.  Tune in next week to hear who won the battle in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jasonsantamaria\/291941108\/\">Eric (Oompa Loompa) Meyer vs. Glenda the GoodWitch<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the moment I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeldman.com\/\">Jeffrey Zeldman<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/meyerweb.com\/\">Eric Meyer<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonsantamaria.com\/\">Jason Santa Maria<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/molly.com\">Molly<\/a> working the conference registration desk, I knew that this truly was &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aneventapart.com\/\">An Event Apart<\/a>&#8220;.  Imagine walking in to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drafthouse.com\/\">Alamo Drafthouse<\/a> and having Zeldman hand you your badge and thank you for coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}