Having been described as “the Best Little Capital City in the World” in 2010 by the esteemed Lonely Planet Guide, Wellington went ahead and proved it once again this weekend with a series of stunning
Dusk gathers on Wellington Harbour. Time to eat, drink and code
summer days and web and tech conferences that brought excited visitors and celebrated speakers from around the Globe.
Webstock is a web festival celebrating all things to do with the web and design, and incorporates presentations from some of the world’s leading figures. This world-class event keeps getting better, and has become a must-attend event for the New Zealand web industry.
While Webstock raged on at the Town Hall, I had the chance to attend WordCamp, a smaller scale but no less innovative conference for developers using the incredibly popular open-source CMS software WordPress. This site and blog are built using WordPress.
It was a great deal of fun to meet up with and share ideas with a open, friendly community of like-minded people, and enjoy presentations from industry luminaries such as John Ford from “Automatic” and Wellington web entrepreneur Richard MacManus, who owns and runs industry super-blog Read, Write Web.
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