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Patrick Lee — One paper clip, a box of matches, and some JavaScript

A pre­sen­ta­tion given at at Web Directions Government, Old Parliament House, Canberra, May 19 2008.

Patrick Lee PortraitWhoever you are, if you’re writ­ing JavaScript, there’s some aspect of your devel­op­ment that you would love to change if you had the chance. But the real­ity is you’ll never find your­self work­ing in this ideal envi­ron­ment: deal­ing with legacy browsers, plat­forms and con­tent man­age­ment sys­tems will be your con­stant as a devel­oper. Patrick Lee is going to show you some tools and tech­niques that will help you make your peace with this fact.

This ses­sion will explore how you can find ways to do the cool stuff you really want to do with JavaScript whilst work­ing in the real world. And you won’t even have to sell your soul in the process.

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Aaron Gustafson — Learning to love forms

A pre­sen­ta­tion given at Web Directions South, Sydney Australia, September 28 2007.

Aaron Gustafson PortraitForms. We all have to make ‘em, but few of us love ‘em. Aaron Gustafson believes that this is because we don’t under­stand them. In this ses­sion, we will explore forms from top to bot­tom, exam­in­ing how they work and how their com­po­nents can be incor­po­rated with other ele­ments to max­i­mize acces­si­bil­ity, improve seman­tics, and allow for more flex­i­ble styling. You’ll get to see the com­plete pic­ture with forms, includ­ing error, warn­ing and for­mat­ting mes­sages, styling and its impli­ca­tions, as well as best prac­tices for manip­u­la­tion with Javascript and Ajax.

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