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Introducing Amped, the hackday, reloaded coming to Atlanta and Sydney
When you hear about the latest web technologies and techniques do you ever think “damn, I wish I could play with these right now”?
Enter Amped — the Hackday, reloaded.
We’ve taken the traditional hack day, pulled it apart, thought long and hard about what’s great, what’s … Read more »
Learn CSS3 with John Allsopp
Hot on the heels of my recent HTML5 course with SitePoint, is our new CSS3 Live course, starting today, August 16. It features screencasts, exercises, articles, and live streamed FAQs, and runs for 3 weeks.
We cover selectors, properties, media queries, and more in real depth — so if … Read more »
Tech23 — for Australian Technology Innovators
Tech23, in its second year now, is a great event in Sydney focussing on commercial technology innovation. Featuring a combination of insights from leaders in the tech industry, and a shootout for some serious prizes by 23 early stage technology companies, and all wrapping up with a great awards … Read more »
HTML5 Live, a two week online course from John
A quick note to all that with SitePoint, a fantastic community for web designers and developers, and publisher of many excellent design and development books, I’ll be running a two week course, online starting next Monday on HTML5. And best of all, it’s only $US9.95 (yep, less than a … Read more »
Web Directions South 2010
We’re really excited to take the wraps off Web Directions South for 2010. 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, … Read more »
SVG Contest closes Friday
Just a quick update on our “No Bit, Sherlock” competition, where you can win some great prizes like XBoxes, Mindstorms and a SONY Vaio just for building an SVG button, or progress control.
There’s plenty of great examples you can learn from (remember, “view source” is not a sin, it’s … Read more »
@media is a wrap, and a huge hit
We’ve just wrapped up the first @media event run by Web Directions here in London, and if we say so ourselves, it’s been a huge hit.
An incredible array of speakers, covering a wide range of breaking topics including CSS3, HTML5, mobile web app development, geolocation, but much … Read more »
SVG — the Cinderella of web standards goes to the ball
To date, SVG has been rather the Cinderella of web standards (people forget that Cinderella was the beautiful, but overlooked sibling before the whole glass slipper business). But since the handsome Prince (Internet Explorer 9) showed interest in her, things have been looking up. OK, so I’ve pushed … Read more »
Opera Dragonfly Developer survey
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 … Read more »
@media approaches — along with many web related events
We’re gearing up for our first @media filling the huge shoes left by founder Patrick Griffiths, and things are shaping up really well.
But @media’s not the only thing on next week. The excellent folks at London Web Standards are holding HTML5 and Flash, where are they now?, … Read more »
SitePoint interviews @media speakers Jonathan Stark and Tom Hughes-Croucher
Our fine friends, and long time supporters SitePoint have been doing a number of interviews with @media speakers in the lead up to the event next week. Craig Buckler speaks with Jonathan Stark, on building native mobile apps using web technologies, and Tom Hughes-Croucher on Server Side JavaScript … Read more »
Announcing Web Directions USA!
Our traditional early year timeframe for Web Directions North has come and gone, so you might have been wondering what’s been happening with Web Directions in North America.
We’re really excited to be able to say behind the scenes a lot has been going on, and we’re excited to be able … Read more »
State of Web Development 2010
We’re late to our own party here, but earlier this week we released the results of our second State of Web Development survey (last year it was the state of the web survey, but we changed the name to more closely match the aim of the report).
You can … Read more »
White Pages Australia new API — beta testers wanted
In a move that hopefully points to where Sensis is heading with their data, Australia’s White Pages are looking for beta testers for their new API. So if you’ve got an application that could benefit from all that data on business, government and personal contacts, get in touch … Read more »
jQuery conference in San Francisco next week
jQuery comes up all the time in our conferences (we’re particularly privileged to have jQuery founder John Resig speaking at @media in London in June).
So, it makes more than a little sense to point out that the next jQuery conference is on in San Francisco this coming weekend. … Read more »
A dao of web design turns 10
A decade ago, I wrote an article “A Dao of Web Design” that the then youngish A List Apart published apparently exactly 10 years ago today.
At the time, I practiced a lot of Tai Chi (which is closely associated with the philosophy of Daoism) (sadly, I do so much … Read more »
iPad, Work Discipline and Post Industrial Capitalism
When Apple finally revealed the world’s second worst kept secret (Ricky Martin today revealed the other one — good for you Ricky), I publicly and privately expressed, along with many others, my initial, if not disappointment, at least state of being underwhelmed. Whatever it was, it wasn’t revolutionary (and … Read more »
SVG and IE9
Today at MIX, Microsoft announced the first developer preview version of IE9, a far from finished, but usable look at where IE is headed. Microsoft will update this preview very couple of months or so.
There’s a great deal new, and much for us in the web design and development … Read more »
Bob Harris’s closing Keynote at Web Directions North 09
Jeopardy champion, fantastic comedian, author, inventor, television writer (credits include CSI and Bones) and much more, Bob Harris came into my life in a way unimaginable only a handful of years ago. My wife was well over due with our first child, and far from contented. She … Read more »
State of the web survey — closes today
A quick note for those web designers and developers out there who’ve not yet taken this year’s “State of the Web” survey — it closes today, so if you have a few minutes, please head along and take it.
The survey, follows up on last years and aims to … Read more »
@media early bird registration extended to March 7th
A quick note for those thinking about attending @media — we’ve (as has become something of a tradition) extended the super early bird discount of £100 off until March 7th. So, if you’d thought you’d missed out, you’ve got a few more days to register at this pretty amazing … Read more »
Boagworld Big Breakfast at @media
Web Directions is very proud to be hosting a really special and fun event on the Friday morning of @media: the Boagworld Big Breakfast. Boagworld is the longest running web design podcast with a passionate and dedicated community from all backgrounds. The show offers something for everyone from … Read more »
John Resig speaking at @media
That’s right, someone we’ve been trying for literally years to get to come and speak at one of our events, John Resig, father of JQuery, is speaking on JavaScript testing at @media in London in June.
As web applications mature, the need to test systematically and thoroughly is becoming … Read more »
AIIA 2010 iAwards
The Australian Information Industry Association, a long time industry Partner of Web Directions, has recently launched the 2010 edition of the iAwards, now in it’s 16th year, and Australia’s premier technology innovation awards program.
With 18 categories, including startups, tools, tourism, student projects, education and government, whatever solutions you … Read more »
Want to speak at Web Directions South 2010? Got Feedback and Suggestions?
If you want to speak at Web Directions South this year, here’s your chance to propose a topic.
Even if you don’t want to speak, you can also give us feedback and your thoughts on what you’d like to hear about this year, and who you’d like to see … Read more »
State of the Web Survey for 2010
In late 2008, we did our first comprehensive State of the Web survey, with well over a thousand respondents from all over the world answering. The aim was to capture a snapshot of the technologies and importantly practices and philosophies of professional web designers and developers. We published the … Read more »
Announcing Web Directions @media — London, June 8 – 11
In 2005, not long after WE04, the first conference we helped organise, well known UK web industry expert Patrick Griffiths, of HTML Dog fame, launched @media. An instant success, @media and Web Directions have always shared very similar DNA — a passion for the web, standards, accessibility and best … Read more »
MOB Case Study now.webdirections.org
The amazingly talented folks at MOB produced a couple of fantastic things for Web Directions South 09. Working with YiYing Lu, they produced the wonderful “you are what you tweet” Augmented Reality project. They also built now.webdirections.org, an iPhone optimized web application (yes, yes, the design decision … Read more »
Google’s new approach to China
Google had just taken what we believe is a huge step forward for the web, and the world
We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis … Read more »
GovHack, Canberra Oct 30 and 31 — produced by Web Directions
On Friday afternoon at Web Directions South we were excited and honoured to be able to announce GovHack, an event we’ll be producing in canberra at the end of the month. GovHack is an initiative of the Government 2.0 TaskForce, in support of MashupAustralia, a competition encouraging … Read more »
Tech23 startup event in Sydney
Hot on the heels of our amazingly well received Atlassian Startup Space at Web Directions South, Tech23 is a full day startup focussed event in Sydney on October 27.
If you are a startup, an investor, or someone thinking about starting up — get along, learn and network. … Read more »
Web Directions South 09 — Our best ever
Web Directions South is over for another year, and judging by the comments in person, in blogs, via email and of course via twitter, it would seem many think it is the best to date, something we’d have to agree with. Sometimes the stars seem to align — extraordinary presentations … Read more »
Special event for Web Week — go deep in the bowels of a leading data centre
Thanks to our sponsors Anchor Hosting, and Australia’s largest carrier neutral data centre, Global Switch, we’ll be running two, limited places 1 hour tours of their data centre facilities, in Tuesday the 6th and Wednesday the 7th of October at 345pm (and finishing up at the … Read more »
Win a ticket to Web Directions South from Opera Software
If you’ve not been able to get along to the conference next week, our excellent friends over at Opera Software are giving away a place to Web Directions South 09.
All you have to do is submit an abstract detailing what you would do to showcase the new breed of web … Read more »
Atlassian Startup Space at the Web Directions Expo
Thanks to the support of Atlassian, Aussie startups turned worldwide success, at the Web Directions Expo this year we have a dedicated startup focussed area, the Atlassian Startup Space.
7 recent startups, with a broad range of products and services relevant to the web industry have been chosen for this … Read more »
McFarlane Prize 2009 Shortlist
The Judges have been hard at work with the higher than ever before standard of this year’s Prize, and have decided on the short list for the 2009 Prize.
Last year’s winning designers, Propeller Global, after two grueling rounds of judging have three sites they designed in the short list … Read more »
Website Spark — loads of (almost) free stuff for web designers and developers from Microsoft
Late last week, Microsoft announced a new program for web designers and developers, WebSite Spark.
Included in the program are
- Microsoft Web design and development tools, including three licenses of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition, two licenses of Microsoft Expression Web 3 and one license of Microsoft Expression Studio 3
- Four … Read more »
WE Rock — web education evening — sponsored by Adobe
WE Rock is a series of events planned for all over the world, and created by Leslie Jensen-Inman, from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
The first WE Rock event, held in Chattanooga in August was a great success, and Australian Web Week sees WE Rock come … Read more »
Calling Aussie Web focussed startups
Do you have a startup with a focus on technology that would interest attendees at Web Directions as potential customers or partners? Thanks to the generous support of startup-turned-huge success, Atlassian here’s your chance to get in front of hundreds of web designers, developers, and decision makers at the … Read more »
Web Directions Discount period ends Weds night
If you still haven’t quite got round to registering for this year’s bigger (now 4 tracks), even better Web Directions South (now with added Web Week goodness) then here’s an even great incentive — save $100 if you register before midnight Wednesday September 15th, making it just … Read more »
About NSW — a new project from the PowerHouse museum
Seb Chan, one of the web wunderkinds at the PowerHouse Museum, talks about their new site, About NSW
a bit of a Frankenstein creation of different data sets mashed together by a sophisticated backend. The project began with an open-ended brief to be a cross-sectorial experiment in producing new … Read more »
Opera 10 released
Opera 10, the latest installment from the long term supporter of a standards based web, Opera Software, was released yesterday.
Opera 10 has support for numerous HTML 5 and CSS 3 features, as well as a new look and feel from well known web designer Jon Hicks, and great developer … Read more »
McFarlane Prize nominations close tonight at midnight
A final reminder to all Australian Web designers, developers, both individuals and teams. Nominations for this year’s McFarlane prize close tonight at midnight, and to allow the esteemed panel of judges time to assess the nominations, we simply can’t extend that deadline.
If you’ve launched, or significantly updated a web … Read more »
Web Directions discount period extended ’til midnight September 14th
A huge thanks to all who’ve already signed up to come to what will be the biggest and best Web Directions to date. For those who still haven’t quite decided, or got around to registering, then a quick note to let you know that we’ve extended the discount period … Read more »
Win an all expenses paid trip to Web Directions East in Tokyo!
This year one very lucky Web Directions South attendee will get to rekindle that warm fuzzy conference glow just six weeks later by heading to Web Directions East in Tokyo, on us, including airfares, accommodation, conference, two workshops, receptions, dinners, parties … Read more »
Announcing the W3C Track at Web Directions South
We are really excited to be able to announce the W3C Track at Web Directions South, hosted and curated by the W3C Australian Office, and supported by CSIRO, home of the Office. Laurent Lefort and others at CSIRO have been working incredibly hard for some time now to … Read more »
McFarlane Prize nominations close early Next week
Great nominations continue to come in — but make sure your work doesn’t miss out on its chance to shine.
Nominate today — it’s free and will take 5 minutes or less!
Typedia
With the coming of embedded fonts, Web developers and designers are going to have to become increasingly knowledgeable about type. The just launched Typedia from wonderful designers like Jason Santa Maria, Liz Danzico, Aaron Gustafson and many other looks like a great resource to learn about and explore typefaces.
You … Read more »
Introducing Australian Web Week
Maxine and I are really excited and proud to announce Australian Web Week, October 2 to 9, a showcase of the strength and creativity of the Australian Web industry. It’s a project we’ve been planning for years, and working hard on for months now.
The Design industry has its … Read more »
The reason it’s been quiet at Web Directions…
Well, there are two big big reasons why, but you’ll have to wait until next week to find out. Rest assured, we think you’ll be very excited.
Have a great weekend, and see you Monday with the news.
McFarlane Prize reminder
We’ve got many great nominations for the McFarlane Prize already, putting us a fair way ahead of previous years, with more diversity than we’ve seen before. Thanks to all who’ve entered so far. For the rest of you, it’s quick, easy and costs nothing to enter a site … Read more »
Business track — one session remains
At Web Directions, we like to have most of our sessions all organized before announcing our conferences, but we do usually leave one or two sessions open for breaking developments.
We’ve now got a single session remaining in the business track, and thought we’d do a bit of crowd sourcing. … Read more »
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 »
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.
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 »
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 »
Good reasons to install Internet Explorer 8
Hmmm, the reader thinks — where is this one going?
At the end of 2008, our State of the Web survey found that somewhat less than a third of the designers and developers responding tested their sites in IE8 (though essentially 90% tested in IE7). Granted, IE 8 was still … Read more »
First Annual Web Industry Awards — nominations close in 1 week
A quick note to let you all know that nominations for the first annual web industry awards, the national version of the long standing WA Web Industry Awards close in 1 week.
There’ll be state by state awards, (with an event Tuesday 6th October in Sydney coinciding with Web Directions) … Read more »
Andy Clarke at @media
The debate over whether, and to what extent web sites should look the same in every browser continues to rage. To the bemusement of many it must be said.
If you fall into the “yes” camp — then please go and read Andy’s latest presentation from @media. And … Read more »
@media and Web Directions
Maxine and I are really excited to let you know that from 2010, @media, one of the great web conferences in the world will be presented by Web Directions.
@media will stay right at home, in London, and feature the same mix of the world’s leading web designers, … Read more »
Firefox 3.5 accessibility features
A detailed look at the accessibility features of Firefox 3.5.
First FuelWatch, now GroceryWatch Canned
The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that the Australian Federal Government’s fabled GroceryWatch website has been scrapped. We wrote critically about the dire accessibility of the site when it first launched. In the meantime, consumer advocacy magazine Choice had taken over the project from the government.
What happened? … Read more »
Fix Outlook
Personally, like other old web curmudgeons (OK so Dave Shea isn’t really old), I’m not a big fan of either sending or receiving HTML email. But, it’s a reality of life, and more importantly if something supports HTML, it should to the extent possible support modern web development … Read more »
Vale Michael Jackson
For all his myriad faults, he was a genius, and a strange broken symbol of our time.
Via Kottke
Australia’s Government 2.0 taskforce
Via Slattery’s Watch, news of the just launched Australian Federal Government’s “Government 2.0 Taskforce”, which (a wordpress blog no less!). From the site:
Its work falls into two streams. The first relates to increasing the openness of government through making public sector information more widely available to … Read more »
The incomparable PPK on the current state of Internet Explorer
Peter-Paul Koch, curator of “Quirksmode”, has contributed just about as much as anyone to our understanding of browsers, and their quirks, bugs, strengths and weaknesses.
He’s just published his “State of the Browsers — IE Edition”, where he takes a look not at technology, but current market share, and … Read more »
InfoWorld on HTML5
Usually when you see the adjective “killer” in a tech related story (except about robots I guess), you know you are in for a good dose of hype. Countless stories on Google-killers, iPhone killers and so on have seen to that.
InfoWorld has a quite detailed story on HTML5, which … Read more »
The peer to peer web with Opera Unite
For a few days now Opera software have been promising to reinvent teh interwebs.
Well, the day has arrived, in for the form of Opera Unite. Unite puts a web server inside every (opera) browser — challenging the traditional “client server” model of the web. As Chris Mills … Read more »
Modal web interfaces
Damien Buckley, from Propellor Global, winners of last year’s McFarlane Prize, has some thoughts about the increasingly discussed issue of modality in web design (think lightboxes, registration forms and the like). Damien McCormack, from Vision Australia, one of the speakers at Web Directions South … Read more »
The leading edge of Web Design
In the leadup to the release of Firefox 3.5, hacks.mozilla.org are publishing dozens of articles show[ing] what’s possible at the edges of web technology.
Firefox 3.5 implements all kinds of HTML5 and CSS3 features, many also implemented in Opera and Safari, so much of what they’ll cover is far … Read more »
The state of open video on the web
Ars Technica has a great roundup of where open video, the HTML5 video element, and open codecs like Ogg are at today, in browsers, and in use on the web. An excellent primer.
Happy Anniversary Mozilla (1.0)
Via Wired, today (US time) is the 7th anniversary of the release of Mozilla 1.0.
While Firefox was still a couple of years off, the release of version 1.0 of the Mozilla browser was a big milestone for open source software, and the web.
The future of development? Palm’s web technology grounded Pre launches next week
We’ve mentioned Palm’s Pre a couple of times here since it was announced in January this year.
Our interest is simple — the way you develop for the Pre and its new webOS is to use CSS, HTML and JavaScript. Now, this was the way Apple … Read more »
Adobe BrowserLab — in the footsteps of BrowserCam and BrowserShots
For years, developers who needed to ensure their sites worked in a broad range of browsers had a couple of choices.
First was to run numerous browsers (and likely operating systems) for testing. Far from fun.
Some year ago, BrowserCam started making life much more pleasant, by offering this service over … Read more »
Opera 10 beta released
Opera Software has today released beta 1 of Opera 10. Opera’s support of CSS 3 in alphas of 10 has been excellent (most selectors, text-shadow, opacity and more), and this beta now sports a new interface by Jon Hicks.
Shaping up as a huge year for browsers — with … Read more »
Announcing Style Master 5 for the Mac, from the folks at Web Directions
The reason for the existence of Web Directions is more or less CSS. But the story starts a long long time before Web Directions was ever dreamt of. And a big part of that story is Style Master, the Mac and Windows CSS development software Maxine and I have … Read more »
Exploring CSS 3
In our other lives, Maxine and I run westciv — and have done for 15 years or more.
Westciv develops tools like Style Master, training courses, and a heap of other things to help web designers and developers.
We’ve just released a number of free web based tools … Read more »
BarCamp Sydney #5 coming late June
For fans of BarCamp (and indeed folks who’ve never even heard of them), Sydney’s 5th BarCamp is coming up on June 27th at the Australian Technology Park (a great venue!)
So, mark it in your diaries and get ready to participate.
New Jobs at Web Directions Jobs
In an encouraging sign given the largely poor economic news we’ve been hearing of late, this week has seen several high profile new jobs posted to our jobs site.
News Digital Media/TrueLocal and looking for a Senior Front-end Developer
Gruden are looking for an Online Project Manager / Producer
Different … Read more »
Google Wave — the next big Aussie success story at Google?
As far too few people know, Google Maps started life here in Australia, and Google continue to have a large Australian engineering presence. Now, Lars and Jens Rasmussen, two of the founders of what became Google Maps have announced Google Wave — built here in Australia by all indications.
What … Read more »
The dawning of real fonts on the web?
Regular readers will know of my near fixation with embeddable/downloadable fonts on the web, as now supported in Safari, Firefox 3.5 and Opera 10, and long supported (in a somewhat incompatible way with these other browsers) in Internet Explorer.
But the technology has never taken off. Foundries and many type … Read more »
Mark Pesce kicks of the first ever “What’s the Big Idea”
Anyone who’s been to one of the Web Directions South conferences will have seen Mark Pesce, inventor of VRML, judge on the ABC’s New Inventors, big thinker, and all round guru, speak.
While he gracefully retired from our final keynote role after (in fact during) last year’s keynote (like John Farnham … Read more »
Happy anniversary DailyKos
I’m not sure how many Australians will be familiar with DailyKos, an enormously influential and highly trafficked politically liberal online community in the US.
DailyKos, frequently singled out by right wing commentators in the mainstream media for vitriolic abuse (which seems to only benefit DK), is an example of an … Read more »
JavaScript and Website performance
Techworld has a detailed summary of Google’s high performance guru Steve Souder’s recent Tech Ed presentation on web site performance, where he singles out JavaScript as a particular culprit in slowing down sites.
With Amazon reporting that a 10th of a second slow down in overall page loading reduced sales … Read more »
Great moments in User Experience?
News from Autoweek, that BMW will now offer full internet access in the dashboard, well. provided your car is travelling at less than 5 kph.
One wonders whether the kind of folks with a BMW budget won’t already have a web enabled phone, and whether dedicated in car web access … Read more »
Data.gov
Announced a few weeks ago, via Stephen Collins we learn that America’s service to
increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.
has been launched.
To me, a hugely important step in the transformation of the concept of government to greater … Read more »
How do you solve a problem like IE6?
(As astute, more likely female readers might guess, Sound of Music is now the new favourite movie at chez Allsopp for the 3 year old)
We might forget it, but once IE6 represented a great leap forward for the web. At the time, its support for CSS was really as good … Read more »
We ❤ Adrian Holovaty
As regular readers and Web Directions attendees will know, we are big big fans of Adrian Holovaty here at WD!
Adrian’s latest short post summarizes I think much of why we are such big fans. Highly relevant to the current widespread debate about the future of news and journalism, … Read more »
Microsoft REMIX coming in June
Each year in March, Microsoft hold MIX, their web focussed conference. For the last three years, Microsoft Australia has been holding REMIX, a one day event bringing focussing on the web, from Microsoft’s perspective. This year’s event is a few weeks off, in Sydney June 11.
Clearly Microsoft, and their … Read more »
WDS09 — off to a great start
Thanks to all those who have already registered — WDS09 is off to a great start!
We’re also very happy to announce our first exhibitors for 2009 — long time supporters of Web Directions, Campaign Monitor, and XERO, providers of a very popular web based accountancy system. XERO … Read more »
WTF is “the cloud” anyways?
One can barely move in IT and web circles these days without hearing reference to “the cloud” (in downtown San Francisco late last year I saw billboard and bus ads all over talking about the clouds!). But just what the dickens is it?
There’s a nicely title article at Google’s … Read more »
Opera turns 15
A big congratulations to long time Web Directions supporters, browser developers Opera. 15 years old today. (if you youngsters want a taste of the web in early 1994, or we old timers want to relive the glory days of animated gifs and more (sadly no evidence of the blink tag)) … Read more »
Web Directions speaker Dmitry Baranovskiy hits the big time
Many in the Australian Web industry (and beyond), particularly Web Directions attendees will know of Dmitry Baranovskiy, and in particular his fantastic Raphaël JavaScript Graphics Library. Via the excellent Ajaxian site, it’s exciting to learn that Blackberry is using Raphaël for a new, highly interactive and … Read more »