Our latest events include State of Play, the business and technology of HTML5 games, in Sydney May 28, and Code, Australia's HTML5 and JavaScript developer conference.
The McFarlane Prize for Australian web design — nominations now open
Nominations for the McFarlane Prize for excellence in Australian web design have just opened. So, if you’re responsible for a web site launched or significantly updated since September 20 2009 which you think deserves recognition for its adherence to web … Read more »
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 »
Sitepoint are looking for a web app developer
Want to work with some of the best developers in Australia? Looking to develop world-class websites using the latest web technologies? Keen to be part of an organisation that is a great supporter of the Aussie web industry?
SitePoint are in need of a talented PHP developer — … 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 »
More Web Directions @media podcasts and slides come online
Thanks to a lot of hard work from Guy Leech, a whole bunch of the podcasts and slides from Web Directions @media are now online. It’s always great to give back by making these available, and we’d like to particularly thank our speakers for their generosity.
Help us make it all … Read more »
Three must-see presentations which came out of Web Directions @media
After any conference we always do our best to share the love by creating a podcast and resource page for each presentation from the event. Apologies that it has taken a bit of time to get these out there this time — we’ve had the small matter of … 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 »
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