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@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 »