{"id":3297,"date":"2015-05-07T19:58:34","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T19:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zensations.at\/?p=3297"},"modified":"2023-08-09T00:34:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T00:34:06","slug":"what-was-going-on-at-smashingconf-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zensations.at\/en\/blog\/what-was-going-on-at-smashingconf-los-angeles\/","title":{"rendered":"What was going on at #smashingconf Los Angeles?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week the Smashing Conference, well-known when it comes to web design and web development, took place in Los Angeles. Needless to say that it was absolutely necessary for me to fly about 15.000 miles to attend. Almost the same conference was actually held in the UK a few weeks prior to this, but let\u2019s forget about the distance.<\/p>\n

Located at the beautiful Santa Monica Pier (oh yeah, now guess what) in Santa Monica, more than 300 people from all over the world met for the conference, workshops, party and the #smashingconf photowalk, which was one of my two days favorites.<\/p>\n

The topics that had been dealt with were kind of varied, but always \u201cForrest Gump\u201d related. It\u2019s sort of an in-joke but those of you who saw the movie know why.<\/p>\n

\"Forrest<\/p>\n

They gave a broad hint by adding a Forest Gump slide to every talk. So, this leads many of us, me included, to the more or less strongly believe that Tom Hanks is going to be the second conferences day\u2019s mystery speaker. Actually he wasn\u2019t, just to make this clear. It was Cameron Moll, who did a pretty good job and made a statement propably everyone had experiences over the years:<\/p>\n