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Code Leaders, Melbourne, 2 August 2017

That was quite a day! I reckon very few of the 140 or so of us at this first Code Leaders conference in Melbourne had a clear idea of how the day would pan out. It’s probably fair to say that no-one except John Allsopp, the event’s creator and the heart and soul of Web […]

Code 16: Does Your Web App Speak Schadenfreude? Greg Rewis

Localisation (or localization) is one of those things that seem simple at first glance, but the further you go into it, the more of a rabbit warren you realise it is. Fortunately, once you’ve worked out what’s needed, it can become a largely automated or at least controlled process and, as Greg Rewis’ talk at […]

Code 17 Conference Update

A quick update on our Web Directions Code 17 conference  taking place in Melbourne on 3-4 August. The response so far has been incredible, our thanks to those who’ve already registered. Please do note that we are limited in how many tickets we can sell by the size of the venue – so it is possible we […]

Code 16: Taking Back Control over Third Party Content – Yoav Weiss

Performance is one of those areas that web developers simply have to be aware of, understand and take responsibility for. And as with other overarching and underpinning principles that developers must take into account – security and accessibility are other good examples – there are, in fact, very specific ways in which devs can improve […]

Calling All Speakers for Web Directions Code 2017

Last week, we opened registrations for the latest Web Directions Code conference, taking place in Melbourne on 3-4 August. We’ve announced just two international keynote speakers (so far) and that’s partly because we’ve deliberately left room for some presentations by up and coming local speakers. That could be you. At Web Directions, a core mission is to […]

Video of the Week: The State of Front-End Testing – Alicia Sedlock

Continuing this week’s broad theme of maintaining your code and making sure it does what it’s supposed to do – preferably neither more nor less, our Video of the Week also comes from Code 16. Alicia Sedlock took us into the world of code testing: unit testing, acceptance testing, code linting, visual regression testing – […]

Registrations Open for Code 17, First Speakers Announced

We have just opened registrations for Web Directions Code 17! For those new to it, and to remind those who know it well, Code has evolved to be the premier conference in Australia focusing on JavaScript, front end HTML/CSS, devops, engineering, web-facing programming, security, performance … in short, code. The last time we held Code solely […]

The Big 2017 Events Reset

I want to share with you our updated plans for the rest of 2017, and into 2018. Why are we changing the schedule? Well, as you may know, my sister Rosemary (who runs Web Directions with me) and I are dealing with some serious family health problems that require us to rethink how best we can deliver on […]

Code as a Signal of Quality

For closer to 20 than 10 years, I’ve made the argument that the quality of the code of a website (which is relatively easy to assess, compared to any sort of binary application, where code is almost impossible to assess in any meaningful way) – whether it validates, its approach to accessibility, its adoption of […]

Plan Your Professional Development for 2017

Those of us who work in Web and the digital arena don’t have to be reminded that our fields are constantly updating. Whether it’s underlying technologies, or broad strategic practices, what was cutting edge last year is often common practice this year, and out of date the next. Both in terms of our own professional […]

Rachel Nabors–The State of the Animation

At Web Directions, we’ve long been excited about animation on the Web, particularly animated user interfaces and experiences. We’ve featured a significant number of presentations on the topic, including two stellar ones in 2015, at Web Directions Code and at Web Directions itself. Today we feature one of those, by the awesome Rachel Nabors, ‘The […]

Alex Mackey – Harden Up Your Ajax

Some solutions for dealing with common Ajax related issues such as timeouts & loss of connectivity. And if this floats your boat, you need to get along to the Engineering Track at Web Directions 2014.

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