Petra Gregorová

YES, I’ll be back for another year of An Event Apart, after attending two years in a row An Event Apart Seattle 2007 & An Event Apart New Orleans 2008, but missing out this year due to some economy crisis and my personal life events.

I’ve been wanting to go to Boston for the next one no matter what the line up of speakers would be, but when I found out that for the first time ever that there will be A Day Apart, I knew that I’ll have to be there. Whether my work will pay for it or not, I had to make sure to make this happen!!! I mean I would be dumb to miss out on a full day workshop about HTML5 and CSS3 with Dan Cederholm & Jeremy Keith. A full day workshop that I’ve been wanting and even brought it up to Jeffrey Zeldman himself during a lunch at AEA in New Orleans where he sat at my table. Consequently, the second I knew that my wishes came true, it was a no-brainer that I had to be part of this & I will be…

So, besides signing up for two days of geekiness presented by only the best and my mentors in the industry like already mentioned Jeffrey Zeldman, my CSS guru Eric Meyer, always funny but mostly very resourceful Andy Clarke, also known as “Malarkey“. I will be delighted to see Aarron Walter again, as well as Jared Spool, Jeff Veen. In addition, I will get to listen for the first time to Ethan Marcotte who also co-wrote Handcrafted CSS with Cederholm and Designing with Web Standards (3rd Edition) with Zeldman, which both I got obviously and read by now.

No need to add anymore as it should be obvious that not only I will get my money worth, I’ll have three days to spend among the best and learn from them as much as I’ll be able to absorb. So, I am happy to say that I’M BACK An Event Apart, so be ready for me!!!!!

I can’t believe the day is finally here. I am leaving bright and early tomorrow morning to New Orleans to attend An Event Apart and meet up with my hubby for a weekend after not seeing each other for almost two months!

This will be nice few couples of days out of town, where it is nice and warm for a change. Have some great food, listen to some great music (this weekend is Jazz Festival as well) and learn some new tricks again from my “Yoda” of CSS, Eric Meyer and hear for the first time Andy Clarke and Cameron Moll.

I promise, I will take a lot of pictures and post them as soon as I can. I’ll be back soon.

New Orleans, are you ready for me, because here I come!

This year it will my third year in a row attending Web Visions. I am not going to lie that the line up isn’t as good as the first year I went, but I am sure that I will get out of it a lot new information as I always do anyway.

During the first two years I attended a workshop, and this year isn’t going to be any different. The first two ones were about CSS, and this year’s is called “javascript for Designers”. Interestingly enough, all three of them are taught by our local David McFarland, who is also an author of books like CSS: The Missing Manual, Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual and to be released in June JavaScript: The Missing Manual.

Not only I can’t wait to attend his workshop, but I can’t wait to buy his latest book. So far all of them were great and just so easy to learn from that I can’t wait to improve my JavaScript skills very soon as well.

After some thinking and debating whether to take another workshop with Aaron Gustafson (who I’ve learned from last year how to learn to love forms and will see him this year again in New Orleans) called Progressive Enhancement with JavaScript and CSS, I decided to go for it and go at my own expense. It sounds very appealing and like something I could enjoy learning,… so we will see.