Multipack Presents: Show and Tell schedule

Saturday 12th February 2011

• Keynote and Housekeeping

  We'll kick off the first Multipack Presents event of the year and give some quick housekeeping information before handing over to the show and tell participants.

  At 4:15pm to 4:20pm, Saturday 12th February

• Developing the Unknown

  by Paul Rhodes

  Why we use frameworks for everything – MVC, Scrum, CakePHP, Jquery, 960 & anything else we can get our hands on. Doesn't matter what the framework is, pick one and have fun! A simple story of refactoring our way to happy clients.

  • Frameworks
  • Web Development

  At 4:25pm to 4:35pm, Saturday 12th February

  Coverage slide deck video

• What Not To Do (In Freelancing)

  by Pete Lancaster

  A simple guide to errors we can make as designers and developers, and the epic problems we will encounter if we don't say "no" a little more often. Lots of personal experience guaranteed.

  At 4:40pm to 4:50pm, Saturday 12th February

  Coverage slide deck video

• Making MySQL Fast

  by Richard Cunningham

  An introduction to MySQL optimization, including designing indexes for queries, taking advantage of clustered indexes and how to avoid indexing too much.

  • MySQL

  At 4:55pm to 5:05pm, Saturday 12th February

  Coverage slide deck video

• The Importance of Being Obvious

  by Anthony Williams

  A quick talk about how we increased the enquiry rate on used vehicle pages by making the next steps people can take more obvious, the results that ensued, and what our plans are for the future.

  • A/B Testing
  • Conversion
  • Interaction Design
  • User Experience
  • Web Design

  At 5:10pm to 5:20pm, Saturday 12th February

  Coverage slide deck video

• Break

  A quick break for some refreshments and food, sponsored by Campaign Monitor, before we head into the final sessions.

  At 5:20pm to 6:00pm, Saturday 12th February

• Dealing with Big Data

  by Simon Hamp

  How we used PHP, MySQL and Sphinx to process massive XML feeds of millions of products and make them searchable.

  • Affiliate Marketing
  • Big Data
  • MySQL
  • PHP
  • Sphinx Search

  At 6:00pm to 6:10pm, Saturday 12th February

  Coverage slide deck video

• Going Beyond A/B Testing

  by Noel Welsh

  We're developing a product to making website optimisation easier and better. Lots of interesting issues from performance, to UI to data stores and processing.

  • A/B Testing

  At 6:15pm to 6:25pm, Saturday 12th February

  Coverage slide deck video

• Music and grid systems for the Web

  by Owen Gregory

  A brief and somewhat tentative exploration of how music intervals (major third, perfect fifth, minor sixth and the like) can be used as the basis for Web site grid design.

  • Grid Systems
  • Music
  • music theory
  • Web Design

  At 6:30pm to 6:40pm, Saturday 12th February

  Coverage slide deck video

• The Geo-aware Parent

  by Matt Machell

  Talk about my new geo-location web- app for parents. Contains experiments in HTML5, CSS3, Python/Pylons and geodata.

  • Geolocation
  • Mobile
  • Pylons
  • Python
  • Web APIs

  At 6:45pm to 6:55pm, Saturday 12th February

  Coverage slide deck video

• Fontdeck: Realign, not redesign

  by Paul Lloyd

  I will reveal some of the thinking behind the new Fontdeck design, possibly showing some early concepts, and give a tour of the changes we've made that have evolved the design we originally launched with.

  • Redesign

  At 7:00pm to 7:10pm, Saturday 12th February

  Coverage slide deck video

• Thanks and Wrap Up

  A quick wrap up of the event, with some thank you messages, before we point you in the direction of the pub for further discussion of the day's talks.

  At 7:10pm to 7:20pm, Saturday 12th February