Future of Web Apps Conference – Edinburgh

“Hello, I’m Ashley, and I’m a FOWA impostor“.

When Ryan Carson asked me whether I was a designer or developer, I held my hand up and admitted I was, in fact, a FOWA impostor. Even though I can’t quite code a fully functioning web app just yet, I still took a lot away from the Future of Web Apps conference. More than I expected. In fact, I now have my moleskine full of invaluable advice offered from the likes of Roan Lavery, Stefan ‘MOO’ Magdalinski, and Ryan Carson himself.

I’ve been documenting my brief affair with Ruby on Rails on this very blog, and while I haven’t exactly been flagging in the motivation department, today’s conference has made me more enthusiastic about pursuing it than ever. Not to mention it’s given me food for thought in a much larger scale; marketing and general running of business.

I’m not going to go into details regarding each of the talks; I’m pretty sure videos will make their way online soon enough. I will say, however, that my two favourites were ‘Turning your big idea into a business’ by Roan Lavery, and ‘Lessons learned from selling Dropsend and other web app stories’ by Ryan Carson.

Ryan said something that stuck with me more so than anything else; “Start right now. Seriously”. I’m a sucker for procrastinating, as I’m sure many of you are, but, as from now, I’ll be applying that ethic to my work.

I can’t wait for other Carsonified conferences to make their way through to Scotland. I’ll see you there.

Tags: FOWA

This entry was posted on Wednesday, May 27th, 2009 at 9:17 pm and is filed under Work.
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