Ottawa’s own Jonathan Snook joins 2013 lineup

It only took us four years to find an opening in Jonathan Snook’s crazy busy schedule.

Becoming a Deep Generalist: or How to be a Know-it-all
Nov 9, 11:45am / 30 MINUTES

A jack of all trades and master of none. We’re told that we can either go deep on a particular topic or go general. After all, how can someone actually know everything about everything? However, with the right focus and plenty of time, we can become magical unicorns of design and development.

Speaker Bio: Johanthan Snook

As a local web designer and developer, Jonathan Snook personifies the word ‘unicorn’ in the technology world: a gifted creator of striking designs, impeccable markup and code, and forward-thinking ideas and applications.

Jonathan writes about tips, tricks, and bookmarks on his blog at Snook.ca. He has also written for A List Apart, 24ways, Digital Web and .net magazine, and has co-authored two books, The Art and Science of CSS and Accelerated DOM Scripting.

He has also authored and received world-wide acclaim for the self-published book, Scalable and Modular Architecture for CSS, sharing his experience and best practices on CSS architecture. He is a frequent speakers at tech events like SxSW, Webvisions, DrupalCon, MIX, LeWeb, FITC, SmashingConf, The Future of Web Design, Tech4Africa and many more. When not writing books and speaking at conferences, Jonathan works on the design team at Shopify.

You can follow Jonathan on Twitter @snookca

*Image credit: CanUX & Elida Arrizza