Gareth Rushgrove

Gareth Rushgrove is a freelance web design and development consultant based in Newcastle upon Tyne, specialising in agile practices and user centred design.

In the past Gareth worked on everything from successful marketing campaigns to enterprise content management and financial service applications. These days he’s more likely to be found persuading clients of the benefits of APIs, microformats and embracing the web as a platform.

Gareth has written articles on topics from mobile web design to facebook and website performance to javascript for the likes of Vitamin, Digital Web and Opera. He also featured in the 2007 edition of 24ways, the annual web design advent calendar.

When not working with clients, Gareth can be found blogging over on morethanseven.net or organising events for the local web community with Refresh Newcastle. He’s currently busy trying to organise a local BarCamp and helping out on the board of the upcoming Thinking Digital conference.

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Sessions

9:45 Friday, 9 May 2008

Design Strategies for a Distributed Web

Data and databases, Open data, Programming Goldsmiths 1

Gareth Rushgrove (Gareth Rushgrove)

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We might be standardising around a handful of web development frameworks but we're still re-inventing the wheel when it comes to the things we build. A vibrant ecosystem of commercial grade API providers, such as Amazon with their S3 and EC2 services, could change all that. But what needs to happen to make this web services dream a reality? And where are the potential pitfalls for successful apps? Read more.