{"id":830,"date":"2013-06-08T18:42:48","date_gmt":"2013-06-08T18:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/?p=830"},"modified":"2015-07-12T14:18:15","modified_gmt":"2015-07-12T13:18:15","slug":"scotch-on-the-rocks-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/06\/08\/scotch-on-the-rocks-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotch On The Rocks 2013 in Edinburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/TheBar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-831\" title=\"TheBar\" src=\"http:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/TheBar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/TheBar.jpg 540w, https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/TheBar-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My employer sent the dev team up to SOTR13, a 2 day web conference in Edinburgh. Talks ranged from the technical to the philosophical and comical with titles like \"HTML5 Mobile App with Phone Gap\", \"Quit your boring 9-5er\" and \"Zombie Code: How to suvive an apocalypse\". I learned a serious amount of very useful knowledge and met some great contacts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/HayMarrket.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-832\" title=\"HayMarrket\" src=\"http:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/HayMarrket.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/HayMarrket.jpg 540w, https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/HayMarrket-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photographed above is us, the development team. And yes contrary to prior stereotyping Scotland does have sunshine. However in balance I must mention that due to my massive dirty ginger beard I blended in with the native to such an extent that two teenage girls actually stopped me in the street and asked me for directions to the sexual health clinic. I am actually not kidding. I like Edinburgh, I will visit again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My employer sent the dev team up to SOTR13, a 2 day web conference in Edinburgh. Talks ranged from the technical to the philosophical and comical with titles like &#8220;HTML5 Mobile App with Phone Gap&#8221;, &#8220;Quit your boring 9-5er&#8221; and &#8220;Zombie Code: How to suvive an apocalypse&#8221;. I learned a serious amount of very useful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[72,102],"class_list":["post-830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-conference","tag-edinburgh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":900,"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions\/900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}