Web Directions

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This has been a big year for Web Directions, with our first ever @media just wrapping up in London, and the recently announced Web Directions US in Atlanta.But our home will always be Sydney, and we're pretty sure we've lined up the best speaker list yet for this year's event. Headlining are Scott Thomas, the lead web designer of Barack Obama's presidential campaign, Josh Williams, founder of Gowalla, Blinksale and Icon Buffet. There's also Steve Souders, Google's high performance guru, author of High Performance websites (having seen him speak at @media, this is not to be missed), wonderful designer Dan Rubin, Michal Migurski of Stamen Design, one of the world's leading information visualization experts, user research powerhouse Juliet Melton, and numerous others.HTML5, CSS3, JQuery, server-side JavaScript, UX, IxD, geo-location, data visualization are just some of the subject areas on the menu, and once more, Web Directions South will feature 4 tracks, including the W3C track we started last year.There's also workshops by Dan Rubin (CSS3), Juliet Melton (User Research), Ben Schwarz (HTML5) and Craig Sharkie (JQuery for Designers), and of course plenty of social activities to get and keep you connected.And, keep Saturday, October 16th free, for an amazing, free new event we'll be announcing very very soon. You'll not want to miss it.Early bird registration of $300 off, at just $899 (inc. GST) is available until July 31, and if you've got some budget from financial year 2009/10 burning a hole in your pocket, then you've got until Wednesday week to register this financial year.We can't wait until October for Web Directions South, and we hope to see you there!" 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We'll have most of that content online in the form of slide shows and podcasts shortly, so stay tuned here.We also had wonderful support from our partners and exhibitors Yahoo Developer Network, Microsoft, Opera Software, Mozilla and RealEx.It was also fantastic to get the support of some of the most high profile IT and web related media in the UK and from around the world including the Guardian, .NET Magazine, ITPros and SitePoint, as well as a host of industry and community groups like Minibar, London Web Standards, HTML5 Dr, and PHP LondonThere'll be much more to say about the event in coming posts, but for now a huge thanks to the speakers, partners, but above all those who came along and made it such a blast.Keep early summer 2011 clear in your diary for Web Directions @media 2010, and we'll see you in London then!And for those of you outside Europe, remember Web Directions USA is in Atlanta in September, Web Directions South in Sydney in October, and Web Directions East in Tokyo in November." 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But since the handsome Prince (Internet Explorer 9) showed interest in her, things have been looking up. OK, so I've pushed the metaphor far too hard, but the long and short of it is Internet Explorer 9 now supports SVG as well (and arguably even better) than any other browser. So, as we're actually big fans of SVG here at Web Directions, we thought we'd encourage you designers and developers out there to to play around with SVG, and win cool prizes (courtesy of the fine folks at Microsoft UK).To this end, we've cooked up our first "No bit, Sherlock" competition, challenging you to come up with a progress control developed solely with SVG (ok, so you can style your SVG with CSS if you like).All the details are at the competition site. The competition is open to anyone, anywhere in the world. You don't need to install any software, swear an oaths of allegiance, or indeed, do much at all other than build that SVG progress control. Even if you've never touched SVG, you really won't find it that challenging at all, and we've put together a pile of resources to help you get started.So, if you've got an hour or two over the next week or so, you can get started with what's going to be an increasingly important web development technology, and win some pretty cool prizes (including XBoxes, LEGO, Meccano, or even a tricked out SONY Vaio) " ["post_title"]=> string(54) "SVG - the Cinderella of web standards goes to the ball" ["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(52) "svg-the-cinderella-of-web-standards-goes-to-the-ball" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2010-06-03 19:17:05" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2010-06-03 09:17:05" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(36) "http://www.webdirections.org/?p=2618" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(4) "post" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "2" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } [4]=> object(stdClass)#118 (25) { ["ID"]=> int(2617) ["post_author"]=> string(1) "3" ["post_date"]=> string(19) "2010-06-03 09:28:45" ["post_date_gmt"]=> string(19) "2010-06-02 23:28:45" ["post_content"]=> string(657) "Those of you who use Opera likely know about their very cool, open source development and debugging tool Dragonfly. It's in many ways similar to Firebug, IE's developer toolbar, and Safari's Web Inspector.The folks at Opera are running a short survey to help get a better understanding of what developers like (and don't like) about these kinds of tools.If you've got a few moments, whether you use DragonFly or not, then you might like to take the survey. I'm keen to see the results." 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The excellent folks at London Web Standards are holding HTML5 and Flash, where are they now?, yet another fine free event from the LWS crew, with a few places left (but hurry as they'll be gone soon.) That's Monday the 7th.@media workshops kick off the next morning, with two days covering HTML5, CSS3, Microformats, and much more, followed by @media Thursday and Friday.Then, if you're still game for more web content, Standards.Next will be talking all things mobile web and widgets Saturday the 12th of June, 1pm to 4pm at the Bricklayers Arms, just near Tottenham Court Road station. And it's free as well!So a might week of webbiness awaits, whether you're coming to @media, or not. See you there!" 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Craig Buckler speaks with Jonathan Stark, on building native mobile apps using web technologies, and Tom Hughes-Croucher on Server Side JavaScript (SSJS).Tom and Jonathan will also be speaking later in the year at Web Directions US in Atlanta - so those of you on the left hand side of the Atlantic will get your chance to see them soon." 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This has been a big year for Web Directions, with our first ever @media just wrapping up in London, and the recently announced Web Directions US in Atlanta.But our home will always be Sydney, and we're pretty sure we've lined up the best speaker list yet for this year's event. Headlining are Scott Thomas, the lead web designer of Barack Obama's presidential campaign, Josh Williams, founder of Gowalla, Blinksale and Icon Buffet. There's also Steve Souders, Google's high performance guru, author of High Performance websites (having seen him speak at @media, this is not to be missed), wonderful designer Dan Rubin, Michal Migurski of Stamen Design, one of the world's leading information visualization experts, user research powerhouse Juliet Melton, and numerous others.HTML5, CSS3, JQuery, server-side JavaScript, UX, IxD, geo-location, data visualization are just some of the subject areas on the menu, and once more, Web Directions South will feature 4 tracks, including the W3C track we started last year.There's also workshops by Dan Rubin (CSS3), Juliet Melton (User Research), Ben Schwarz (HTML5) and Craig Sharkie (JQuery for Designers), and of course plenty of social activities to get and keep you connected.And, keep Saturday, October 16th free, for an amazing, free new event we'll be announcing very very soon. You'll not want to miss it.Early bird registration of $300 off, at just $899 (inc. GST) is available until July 31, and if you've got some budget from financial year 2009/10 burning a hole in your pocket, then you've got until Wednesday week to register this financial year.We can't wait until October for Web Directions South, and we hope to see you there!" 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