Design on Rails Workshop is another amazing LessEverything event.

Who is this workshop for?

• Front-end Developers
• Designers
• Information Architects
• Rails developers that want to learn more about working with designers

What is the workshop about?

It's a single day workshop with talks ranging from working in rails apps, jquery, css best practices, haml/sass and other skills that make designers amazing.

Why put on this workshop?

This workshop is for me. I've fallen behind on front end best practices and need to catch up. I also meet designers all the time that can only deliver html and css and they don't know the joy of working in a rails app, as a designer. Having these skills will allow a good designer to be more productive within a team thus more valuable. This conference isn't going to teach designers to be developers but to show them how to work in a team with developers and not use them as a crutch.

Attendees will receive working demonstrations on...

• how to build partials, structure rails views, changing layouts, design integration.
• why Haml and Sass will make you more productive.
• how to prototype in html.
• how to work with a dev team.
• working with html5.
• designing for mobile applications.
• why compass css will bring you joy.

When & Where

Saturday Oct 16th in Atlanta Georgia, register now it's only $125 per pass.

I'm helping organize Barcamp Panama City Florida on Saturday June 26th 2010. Everyone is invited to attend and encouraged to present.

From the wiki page: BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences (or unconferences), open; participatory workshop-events; whose content is provided by participants. The first BarCamps focused on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats.

If you've never been to a Barcamp, you should absolutely seek these events out. They're casual and a great way to meet new interesting people. Steve and I still have great friends we met at our first Barcamp, Barcamp Miami 2008. Steve and I will both be at Barcamp Panama City hoping to make new best friends, it might be you.

I hope to see you in Panama City Florida on June 26th.

After party will be at my house so please register so I can get a head count.

Everything is long tail.

• Last year I met Willie Jackson, who lives and works in Atlanta.
• Willie Jackson introduced me to Celia Dyer of TechDrawl.com
• Celia attended LessConf '09 in Jacksonville Florida.
• Celia Dyer said she knew of a great venue in Atlanta, so she put me in touch with Bill Cutts.
• Bill Cutts allowed us to use their amazing venue.
• LessConf3010 was in Atlanta because of my friendship with Willie Jackson and the relationships he created Celia and then Celia with Bill.

Serendipity is absolutely real, luck is not.

You never know who you're going to meet so treat everyone the same. My Grandfather met my Grandmother when he was selling vacuums door-to-door.

Relationships are more powerful than banner ads.

Your friends will promote you more than any banner ad will. Make friends, be friendly, be genuine.

Being silly is an excepted form of marketing

A conference isn't about the conference

People come to LessConf to meet, learn, talk, social and get inspired. Having great speakers sells tickets and people want to hear great talks but it's the hallway conversations that stick with them and get them to come back.

Great speakers sell first time conference goers.

This second time conference was different but interesting to see the change. It was almost like a high school reunion, attendees were seeing each other again from the 2009 conference. I think once you attend lessconf you'll come back to hang out with your friends again. Great speakers sell first time conference goers the environment and relationships will bring you back.

Don't drink too much at the first night's party.

I will never drink again...

LessConf3010 will be in Atlanta Georgia, May 21-22, 2010.

LessConf is a conference with talks ranging from startups to design to marketing to business. It's a casual two-day event in Atlanta Georgia with awesome speakers here to inspire you. Each speaker will have a 45 minute talk followed by a 15 minute Q/A session with Steven Bristol.

LessConf3010 Speaker List

1st Day

2nd Day

Gary Vaynerchuk of http://WineLibrary.tv spoke at LessConf2009 about Crushing it and did an awesome Q&A.

Derek Sivers spoke at LessConf2009 about business models and profitability. Derek Sivers founded CDBaby.com and is currently working on other projects like MuckWork

Mike McDerment of http://freshbooks.com spoke at LessConf2009 about how he built a successful web app company.

Our surprise guest was Jason Fried of 37signals.com via video chat. Jason talks about the business philosophies of 37signals and other insights into his work day and inspirations.

David Hauser of Grasshopper.com speaks on "How to build a company beyond the start-up stage". Grasshopper.com is a virtual phone system designed for entrepreneurs. Follow David on Twitter at @DH. Also Grasshopper labs just released Chargify, which simplifies recurring billing for Web 2.0 and SaaS companies.

Here's the video David shows at the beginning of his presentation.

Colin Devroe of Viddler.com speaks about "How to Measure Success".

We're excited that you're interested in LessCruise 2010, April 8-11th. If you don't know anything about the cruise read more here and here.

$100 Deposits are Due by Dec 9th!

If you have any idea that you might want to go, put down a refundable $100 deposit. You'll have until Feb 15th to get the deposit refunded if you decide not to attend. On Feb 15th the remaining balance for the cruise is due.

Steps to be Awesome!

• Call 800-277-3770
• Tell them you're attending LessCruise.
• Give them billing information for the $100 deposit
• They'll send you brochures and other cruise materials.
• Buy a thong speedo and suntan lotion

We want you to come, but you must put down a deposit very soon, this ship will sail without you if you don't put down your $100 deposit quickly.

Kevin Hale of Wufoo.com speaks about "How to make users fall in love with your app".

Steve and I just got back from an 8 day trip to Boston, Philly and New York City. In case you missed it, here's the trip blog post. This blog post is a quick summary of pictures of things we did while we were on the road.