Working with my spouse often makes for some interesting conversations. Over breakfast, he spoke about all the different programs and things he was playing with. Programs like Linux, Red Hat, and Fedora. At the end of the conversation, he commented that in 2012, those programs would never have been called by those names. Their developers, in an effort to increase their ranking in Google, would have called them things like Operating System v3.4, and Free Operating System v3.4.

You know, I have been designing and programming for the web since 1993. I admit that in all that time I have never come over to liking javascript. I’ve come around on flash for certain things, but never javascript and it’s not just because coding it gives me a headache. It just never seemed to be worth the trade-off in security, accessibility, or in SEO, yet over the years, more and more sites have come to rely completely on it to deliver even basic functionality.

And the award goes to: Dragon*Con and Core-Apps’s “Follow Me.” If ever there was an event that needed an app, Dragon*Con was it: 5 hotels, 4 days of programming on 37 different tracks (subjects), 87 exhibitors, 97 dealers, 189 guests (including big-name actors, artists, writers, and musicians), and 40,000 attendees—most tech-savvy. Plus hundreds of unofficial meet-ups, photo-shoots, and parties.