Nicole Sullivan – CSS Power Tools
In this session, you’ll learn about good tools that can make CSS development faster and maintenance easier.
Tag: production
Michael Honey & Tim Riley – Web or native? Smart choices for smartphone apps
In this session, Michael Honey and Tim Riley answer the question “web or native?” from business, product design and development perspectives.
Lisa Herrod – Accessibility for web teams: Recategorising WCAG 2 using a role-based approach
This method enables practitioners to apply skills specific to their role to a narrow range of accessibility guidelines particular to their area of expertise.
Natalie Downe & Simon Willison – Lanyrd: From side project to startup
This talk will tell the story of Lanyrd, from a two-week proof of concept to a full-fledged startup via three intensive months of Y Combinator in Silicon Valley. They’ll share the trials, tribulations and lessons they learned along the way. This is the talk they wish they’d heard before they got started!
Scott Bryant & Simon Wright – Designing for change and disruption
Change is never a smooth process. How do know when disruption is useful and how do you cope with the feedback on it?
Ryan Seddon – Remote debugging landscape
How do we test the vast array of devices out there? And what tools can help us make this a painless experience?
Jeremy Ashkenas – A Cup of CoffeeScript
After a lost decade in the wilderness, JavaScript is starting to change and evolve. We’ll look at CoffeeScript, a little language that compiles into JavaScript, providing concise ways to to write many common JavaScript patterns.
Addy Osmani – Tools for jQuery Application Architecture
In this talk, JavaScript developer and jQuery Core Bug Triage & Docs team member Addy Osmani discusses tools that can simplify your development process significantly.
Ross Boucher – Quality Control: Testing and debugging your apps
Developers have long been able to use an array of debugging, profiling and other testing tools to ensure application quality and performance. More recently, web developers have started to rely on increasingly sophisticated tools to help test their web sites and applications. But particularly in the mobile space, when developing sophisticated applications with web technologies, testing presents significant challenges.
Esther Derby – Agile meets UI
Esther will share strategies for evolving UI design as the software grows, keeping UI designers in the loop and helping everyone on the team be a better designer (cause they think already are).
Juliette Melton – Remote research: Running effective remote studies
In this workshop-style talk, Juliette Melton will cover recruiting sources, technology tools, and caveats you might not have thought of, including managing time zones and participant distraction. We will also address pros and cons of increasingly popular non-scripted research services.
Tatham Oddie – Practicing Web Standards in the Large
Web standards might be second nature to all of us here, but they don’t always fly so easily in the enterprise. Obscure browsers and CIOs watching their bottom line can often leave a passionate development team feeling stifled. In this session we’ll look at how a number of large scale websites successfully adopted new standards and opened their content to more audiences and devices than ever before.
Donna Spencer – Keeping your content alive from cradle to grave
By now we all know that the web is not a publication – that it’s a living, evolving thing. But a lot of content I see still appears to be ‘published’ once and then left alone. This talk is about what happens after content is published.
Matt Webb – Opening keynote: Escalante
Web Directions South 2009, Sydney Convention Centre, October 8 9.10am.
The long run to the turn of the millennium got us preoccupied with conclusions. The Internet is finally taken for granted. The iPhone is finally ubiquitous computing come true. Let’s think not of ends, but dawns: it’s not that we’re on the home straight of ubicomp, but the beginning of a century of smart matter. It’s not about fixing the Web, but making a springboard for new economies, new ways of creating, and new cultures.
The 21st century is a participatory culture, not a consumerist one. What does it mean when small teams can be responsible for world-size effects, on the same playing field as major corporations and government? We can look at the Web – breaking down publishing and consuming from day zero – for where we might be heading in a world bigger than we can really see, and we can look at design – playful and rational all at once – to help us figure out what to do when we get there.
Andrew Fisher – Cloud computing
Cloud services change the way a business or campaign can operate, increasing flexibility, taking less time to deploy and introducing superb cost efficiencies so that we can redirect finances to where they’ll really pay for us – in innovation, experimentation and planning ahead. With these opportunities, however, come challenges around data and platform security, change management and who “owns” the platform and data you are using.
