As part of Web 2.0 Expo SF 2008, Brady Forrest and company hosted an Ignite SF at the DNA Lounge last night. Ignite nights are always a good time. What's Ignite? Take 14 or so speakers, give them 5 minutes each to talk, and see what happens. The result is almost universally fun. And, thanks to the format, if somebody's talk is a dud, well, you only have to wait 5 minutes for the next one. →

I've been in Santa Clara, California this last week photographing the 2008 MySQL User Conference and Expo. This is the fourth year that I've been the official photographer for this conference. Wow, has it really been that many years in a row? The big difference this year: MySQL is now part of Sun Microsystems. →

Over the years that I've been working with O'Reilly Media, they've steadily been ramping up the use of photography in their conference marketing materials. One of the most recent implementations of this is the RubyConf 2008 website which features a... →

Earlier today, Apple announced WWDC08, their annual developer conference. Last year was the second year in a row that I served as a photographer for the Apple Developer Connection and I was lucky enough to be joined by Pınar Özger. Some... →

For the next few days, I'll be in Mountain View, California shooting the eComm2008 conference at the Computer History Museum. This conference is the follow on event to ETel 2006 and ETel 2007. When it became clear that ETel 2008... →