Derek Bender — design, art direction and illustration

BarCamp Tampa Bay

Another quarter, another BarCamp. At least that's what it feels like between all the BarCamps taking place between Orlando, Miami and Tampa this year. This past weekend was Tampa's second annual BarCamp at the USF College of Business Administration, and my first BarCamp in Tampa.

Talks on Saturday included the latest IT & web development technologies and Sunday's talks (which I didn't attend) centered around new media. Standout talks included James Tryon talking on how to be a better freelancer, Steve Bristol's giving Advice to Startups, and a couple different talks on iPhone development. Another talk demonstrated the some really interesting, new technology called Augmented Reality.

Saturday is also the day I gave my talk on the topic on Object Oriented CSS which was about a new method on how to structure CSS in large projects to make your code reusable and modifiable. Aside from the technical difficulties with the projector, the talk went well and prompted good discussion afterwards. You can check out my slides below or take a look at them on Slideshare.