[thelist] Convention suggestions

Well, the company I work for (for the day job :) has a 
$4,000/head/year training budget and I need to pick a pertinent 
conference or two to attend this year. My supervisor suggested 
SeyboldSF as one option, and I'm curious what else is out there that 
people recommend, and when these conventions happen and where.

Several of my coworkers are going to the HOW Design Conference coming 
up in Atlanta. That looks interesting (We're based in Atlanta, btw) 
but the funding wasn't solidified in time to pay for my trip to that. 
Oh well.

My interests lie in CSS and emerging standards in HTML - not so much 
XML, but DHTML, Javascript, and in making code modular, clean, 
simple, and fast-loading. Before I worked at this place, I did some 
freelance consulting and one of my main foci was usability - so I'm 
very interested in that, too.

Finally, they want me to grow into a Sr. Level position, since our 
forner Senior decided it was time to try something new and moved to 
California and found a job with Razorfish :) .. I suppose learning to 
manage a team of HTML Specialists wouldn't be a bad idea either.

Any ideas?

<tip>
When training others, be very very clear. Repeat yourself. Hammer the 
message in until you know they've got it, and then let them try it on 
their own.
</tip>

<tip>
Don't assume that because a project is small in scope that you can 
slack off on the details in a web team. Sometimes the small projects 
grow way beyond budget because your PM didn't lay down a 
specifications document or assumed that one HTML guy just hired could 
do work at the same speed as the veteran who just left.
</tip>
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