Web Directions

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Nigel spoke at the first event we organized, and Maxine and I both collaborated with Nigel on what was sadly his final book, Firefox Hacks.Please pass on the word, and we look forward to the continued very high standard of entries as we've had since the prize's inception in 2006." 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A major problem is I'm a terrible illustrator, and would love these illustrations to be top notch. The illustrations themselves are nothing too complex - for the most part schematic illustrations of hoe things like float and line-height work.If you are keen, please contact us - there's recognition, and a place at Web Directions on offer.Thanksjohn" ["post_title"]=> string(26) "Looking for an Illustrator" ["post_category"]=> string(1) "0" ["post_excerpt"]=> string(0) "" ["post_status"]=> string(7) "publish" ["comment_status"]=> string(4) "open" ["ping_status"]=> string(4) "open" ["post_password"]=> string(0) "" ["post_name"]=> string(26) "looking-for-an-illustrator" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2009-07-27 10:40:05" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2009-07-27 00:40:05" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(36) "http://www.webdirections.org/?p=1974" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(4) "post" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "3" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } [2]=> object(stdClass)#116 (25) { ["ID"]=> int(1972) ["post_author"]=> string(1) "3" ["post_date"]=> string(19) "2009-07-23 09:47:00" ["post_date_gmt"]=> string(19) "2009-07-22 23:47:00" ["post_content"]=> string(572) "JavaScript guru (developer of JQuery among many other things) John Resig, goes into detail about "Web Workers", a new WHATWG and W3C specification for running background JavaScript in a browser, much like the concept of threading found in many programming languages. Currently supported in Safari 4 and Firefox 3.5, it's one of the many HTML 5 and related developments, like the new geolocation API, canvas and the like simultaneously being specified and implemented in browsers." 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For an extensive preview of Cameron's presentation, check out this interview that's just been published at SitePoint.Speaking about who the team had in mind in designing the product:

Much like a lot of stuff at Google, Google Wave is mostly written to scratch our own itch. Are we missing something that we need? Are we building something that we don’t need? In that sense, we aim for a fairly decent level of technical competency, as they are the early adopters. But we aim for the basics of the interface to be simple enough for less competent users to pick up fairly easily.

Read on for Cameron's thoughts on defining interfaces for a form of communication that’s yet to exist, user testing, early adopters vs getting into enterprises and accessibility." 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One of our media partners for this year, SitePoint, is running a quiz, testing your knowledge of the conference, that gives you a chance to win a full free ticket to the conference on October 8 and 9.Take the quiz before August 31st, and tell SitePoint why you should attend, and you’ll be in the running.Oh, and, if you're in Melbourne tonight, double your chances by going along to the Web Standards Group meeting that's on tonight - John Allsopp is speaking on "CSS3 Reloaded", and we're giving away another full ticket to the conference. Is there anything better you could do on a winter's night in Melbourne?" 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Read more at jobs.webdirections. " ["post_title"]=> string(45) "Graduate Web Designer position at Network Ten" ["post_category"]=> string(1) "0" ["post_excerpt"]=> string(0) "" ["post_status"]=> string(7) "publish" ["comment_status"]=> string(4) "open" ["ping_status"]=> string(4) "open" ["post_password"]=> string(0) "" ["post_name"]=> string(45) "graduate-web-designer-position-at-network-ten" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2009-07-19 18:28:34" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2009-07-19 08:28:34" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(36) "http://www.webdirections.org/?p=1965" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(4) "post" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "0" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } [6]=> object(stdClass)#120 (25) { ["ID"]=> int(1963) ["post_author"]=> string(1) "2" ["post_date"]=> string(19) "2009-07-14 14:53:21" ["post_date_gmt"]=> string(19) "2009-07-14 04:53:21" ["post_content"]=> string(4316) "With early bird pricing only just over, conference registrations have been coming in thick and fast, putting us on track to go way beyond previous years in fact - it's exciting!This next fortnight we're doing a bit of a push then on that great series of workshops we have running in the days leading up to the conference: register for a workshop before July 28 and you go in the running to win one of two handy iPod Shuffles.Remember, if you're already coming to the conference, a workshop is only $450 - just make sure you use the same email address you used when you registered for the conference.And those workshops are:Christian Crumlish - Designing social interfaces In this full-day workshop you’ll explore the landscape of social user experience design patterns and anti-patterns, focusing on the contexts in which specific interface designs work well and the unintended consequences that make some UI ideas seem like a good idea until they turn around and bite you in your app. A great day for: Designers, developers, architects and product specialists.Ed Directions This highly focussed, in-depth, whole day symposium, will address the challenge of preparing students for the changing needs of the web industry, by helping teachers, trainers, course and curriculum developers, and others in the education field keep abreast with the latest developments in standards and industry best practice, and to develop and deliver the best possible curricula and courses. A great day for: Anyone involved in developing or delivering education for web designers and developers.Kelly Goto - Design research: the art of getting it done In this full-day workshop, design ethnographer Kelly Goto takes you into the real world of design research. Kelly will take you at a rapid yet accessible pace through in-depth case studies, lectures and hands-on assignments showing you new methods of understanding your audience’s behavior, not just following stats. A great day for: Anyone working on or managing a web design or web application project.Elliot Jay Stocks - From Photoshop to the browser In this workshop, celebrated designer Elliot J. Stocks takes you behind the scenes of the design process, from the initial stages of briefing and research through to final comps delivered to the client for sign-off, ready to be marked-up. The final part of the workshop concentrates on the best ways to prepare your designs for markup and CSS: from sensibly organising your Photoshop layers through to cutting up images with CSS techniques in mind. A great day for: Designers and front end developers.Cheryl and Scott Gledhill - Beyond SEO: thinking past the quick fix In this full day workshop you will develop solid strategies to make SEO part of the day-to-day process in your workplace. Led by Scott Cheryl Gledhill of Molt:n Digital and pinch/zoom, you will learn what part of SEO should stay in-house and when it might be time to bring specialists in to do the job.A great day for: Anyone involved in the website creation process.And then the last of our workshops has in fact already sold out: get in touch if you were keen to go to Earle Castledine's jQuery workshop, as we are considering running it again in November." 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There is Mono, an open source implementation of Silverlight, but there is no official Microsoft implementation of Silverlight for Linux, so while traditionally Linux has been a small player when it comes to mainstream user focussed computing, if ChromeOS is successful, that will change. And the lack of a first class implementation of Silverlight for Linux would then be a considerable stumbling block to its widespread adoption.Flash, while available on almost all web enabled and connected devices, including Linux based devices, has, due to Apple's current decision making, the challenge of not being available on the single most widely used mobile web enabled device. the iPhone.Will the launch of ChromeOS push Microsoft to develop a Linux version of Silverlight? When will we see Flash on the iPhone? And will the investment of thousands of developers in "native" iPhone apps ultimately be an evolutionary deadend, as an increasingly diverse mobile web ecosystem means the only feasible way to build an application that targets Windows based netbooks (sorry "low cost small notebook PCs." ;-)) "traditional" Linux based netbooks, ChromeOS base netbooks, Android based netbooks and phones, Nokia S60 based devices, Palm webOS based devices, iPhone and other OS X based devices, the Nintendo DS family, and so on is a technology that runs on all of these devices?Over a decade ago, there was much rejoicing that Java would offer us the opportunity to "write once, run everywhere" (which quickly became, as the joke would have it, "write once, debug everywhere"). And that was in the days of a couple of operating systems, running on devices with very similar user experiences.I'm not sure why there isn't a lot more excitement that HTML/CSS/JavaScript, and related web technologies are becoming in reality "write once, run everywhere", not just in terms of the devices they'll run on, but also in terms of the flexibility they provide to create appropriate user experiences on very varied devices with the same core code. As a software developer with well over 20 years experience, to me, nothing short of a miracle is happening under our noses - the fact that it has crept up on us over a decade or more is perhaps what has accustomed us to what should be seen as something extraordinary.In the meantime, web developers and designers, you can rest assured, your skills will be increasing demand - so keep them honed. We'll be joined by many more folks over the coming months and years." 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Kyle Weems, CSS Squirrel, and web cartoonist has succinctly captured the issue in the nicest possible way with a cartoon in the style of Mad Max (Road Warrior to non australian viewers) featuring "Mad" Allsopp and his etiquette tips. Etiquette for geeks -might be a worthy workshop for an upcoming Web Directions. Or maybe not." 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Additionally, you'll get access to a promo code that takes the ticket price back to just $750.And if this isn't enough, there's also going to be a great presentation - CSS3 Reloaded - from Web Directions' own John Allsopp.

CSS 3 seems to have been coming for years—but is there anything to show for it yet? Or is it all "pie in the sky"? Hold onto your seats (or beers at least!). In this presentation, John Allsopp, who's been knee-deep in CSS for more than 12 years, shows us what's been going on behind the scenes with CSS 3—not in the spec, but in the real world. In this talk, John will show you all kinds of CSS effects you can use to progressively enhance your sites for a new generation of browsers, like Safari 4, Firefox 3.5 and Opera 10, while still delivering a great experience to users of other browsers.

Date: Monday, July 20th, 2009
Time: 6.30pm for 7pm start
City: Melbourne
Venue: Loop Bar, 23 Meyers Place, Melbourne VIC 3000 [map]
Cost: FREE, but please RSVP.

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" ["post_title"]=> string(62) "CSS3 Reloaded - John Allsopp at Melbourne WSG meetup - July 20" ["post_category"]=> string(1) "0" ["post_excerpt"]=> string(0) "" ["post_status"]=> string(7) "publish" ["comment_status"]=> string(4) "open" ["ping_status"]=> string(4) "open" ["post_password"]=> string(0) "" ["post_name"]=> string(58) "css3-reloaded-john-allsopp-at-melbourne-wsg-meetup-july-20" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2009-07-09 12:19:07" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2009-07-09 02:19:07" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(36) "http://www.webdirections.org/?p=1950" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(4) "post" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "0" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } [11]=> object(stdClass)#125 (25) { ["ID"]=> int(1948) ["post_author"]=> string(1) "2" ["post_date"]=> string(19) "2009-07-07 11:12:47" ["post_date_gmt"]=> string(19) "2009-07-07 01:12:47" ["post_content"]=> string(895) "Just as they have with the main conference, numbers have also crept up fast with the workshops this year. So much so that Earle Castledine's Zero to hero with jQuery workshop is about to sell out. There's only one place left, so, if you've been thinking of coming along to what is going to be an inspired day of hands on learning, the time for hesitating is over.

In this day-long hands-on masterclass, JavaScript and jQuery guru Earle Castledine takes you from the basics of jQuery: simple and useful effects; through to advanced techniques like themeable widgets and Ajax-y goodness. Through fast-paced and interesting practical examples you’ll walk away with the confidence and skill to apply jQuery to your current projects and ideas.

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Having read in detail many specifications, I must say I find the quality of the current HTML5 specification lacking in comparison with other W3 specifications. Yes, it's still in draft, but many sections are in last call for comments stage, and really need considerable work. A modular approach to developing the spec (which we are in effect seeing to an extent with the spinning out of some parts of what was initially part of HTML5) I think would definitely benefit the effort.There's a lively conversation over at zeldman.com with excellent input, particularly from Tantek Çelik, who has been involved with the development of CSS and HTML for many years." 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Scott's argument is not that all social media is bad, but much more nuanced (despite the provocative title).Well worth a read (as is pretty much everything Scott writes)." 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Nigel spoke at the first event we organized, and Maxine and I both collaborated with Nigel on what was sadly his final book, Firefox Hacks.Please pass on the word, and we look forward to the continued very high standard of entries as we've had since the prize's inception in 2006." 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