News from July 2009
Memories and articles from back in the day
McFarlane Prize 2009
A quick note to let you know that the McFarlane Prize for Excellence in Australian Web Design for 2009 will be open for nominations from August the 1st for one month.
The Prize is free to enter, and is open to any Australian individual or team for a site … Read more »
Looking for an Illustrator
I’m currently working on what hopefully will be a high profile book for web developers from a very well known publisher. 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 … Read more »
Threaded JavaScript with Web Workers
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 … Read more »
Cameron Adams on Designing Google Wave
We were really excited to announce that Cameron Adams will be speaking at Web Directions South this year on his experiences working as part of the Google Wave team. For an extensive preview of Cameron’s presentation, check out this … Read more »
Win a ticket to Web Directions South 2009
Want to come to Web Directions South 2009 for free? 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.… Read more »
Graduate Web Designer position at Network Ten
Fresh into our jobs site, a position for a graduate to start as a Junior Web Designer in the Digital Media department at Network Ten. Read more at jobs.webdirections.
Win an iPod Shuffle
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 … Read more »
ChromeOS, another step in the direction of “the web, everywhere”
There’s probably little to be added to the gigabytes of responses to Google’s announcement a couple of days back of their “ChromeOS”.
As with the Palm Pre, if not more so, as the announcement says “For application developers, the web is the platform”.
I said a few days ago, have … Read more »
$200 early bird discount ends tonight
As we mentioned earlier in the week, our $200 early bird discount ends tonight at the stroke on midnight (AEST).
So, to come to Web Directions for the very very reasonable price of just $795 (inc GST) just sign up before midnight.
Note, you don’t have to actually pay right now … Read more »
Civility and the great (XHTM(5)2) debate (now in comic form)
Those following recent developments with HTML5 and XHTML2 might have noticed some concerns about the lack of civility, and adult communications by a number of folks associated with this whole currently rather heated issue. Kyle Weems, CSS Squirrel, and web cartoonist has succinctly captured the issue in the nicest possible … Read more »
CSS3 Reloaded — John Allsopp at Melbourne WSG meetup — July 20
If you’re in Melbourne this July 20 there’s a whole bunch of really good reasons to go along to the WSG meeting at Loop Bar at 6.30pm.
Firstly, along with SitePoint, Web Directions is sponsoring, so, drinks and food are on us.
Secondly, … Read more »
Zero to hero with jQuery workshop — only one space left
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 … Read more »
Web Directions South 2009 Early Bird pricing ends Friday
With more registrations than we’ve ever had at this time, we know already that Web Directions South 2009 is going to be our biggest and best event so far, without a doubt.
So, if you’re thinking about coming along, do yourself a favour and don’t miss out … Read more »
XHTML2 is dead, long live HTML5
The W3 has announced today that the XHTML 2 working group will not be rechartered after its current charter expires at the end of 2009.
In many respects, this is not unexpected, and given the direction HTML5, and browsers have been taking, XHTML2 was looking like an increasingly theoretical, however … Read more »
Scott Berkun “calls BS on Social Media”
Scott Berkun, Web Directions 2007 keynote speaker, has a detailed post at his site “calling BS on social media”. 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).
Paypal Australia Developer days in July
If you need to add payment options to your sites, or those of your clients, there are many different ways of doing so. At Web Directions we know because over the years we’ve probably tried just about every way. Different solutions obviously have their particular strengths and weaknesses.
One of … Read more »
Firefox 3.5 released
Mozilla has released Firefox 3.5, after the recently releases of Safari 4, and Internet Explorer 8, the third major browser release this year. With Opera 10 in beta, we should almost certainly see all four major browsers significantly upgraded in 2009.
For developers, like Safari 4, Firefox 3.5 is a … Read more »