The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that the widely criticised plan of the Australian Federal Government to have mandatory ISP level filtering of a secret black list of sites has been effectively scuttled following an independent senator’s decision to join the Greens and Opposition in blocking any legislation required to get the scheme started. Sadly […]
Got ideas? Love hanging out with other people who have ideas? Got nothing to do on Saturday March 28? Then get yourself along to Trampoline – a brand new event in Melbourne, which is being organised by Pat Allen, Steve Hopkins and Melina Chan. Trampoline will be an informal day of sharing ideas… The goal […]
Just found this via Seb Chan at Fresh + New(er). Nexus is a little app that takes all your Facebook connections and their connections with each other, and creates a visualisation of this. Here are my constellations. That large galaxy, as you would expect, are people I know through work, then there are a couple […]
Web Directions Roadshow is sponsoring the next Canberra Web Standards Group meeting, on March 18. Get along to the meeting for your chance to win a copy of Indi Young – Mental Models Andy Clarke – Transcending CSS Luke Wroblewski – Web Form Design Dan Saffer – Designing for Interaction Dave Shea and Molly Holzschlag […]
If you’ve been thinking about coming to one of the workshops at the Web Directions Roadshow in April, now is the time to seize the day and get your registration in: John brought back a whole bunch of excellent web design and development books from Web Directions North, so we’re going to be giving them […]
Amid the current economic uncertainty, one little positive point is that good quality jobs are continuing to be posted at our jobs site, currently at almost one a day. So, if you are looking to employ, or pick up a full time, part time of freelance gig, head over to Jobs.Webdirections and see what’s on […]
We’re really happy – if a little overwhelmed! – with the number of suggestions, comments and votes our new Web Directions Forum has already generated in its first 24 hrs. As I said yesterday, the thing we really wanted to make happen with this was a bit of help with problem solving and brain storming, […]
As of today, we’re officially open to your suggestions about any aspect of the conference this year: please come in and take a look around at the brand new Web Directions forum. And the best part is, every month we’re going to be giving away a full ticket to the conference to the person who […]
During Web Directions North last week, the tired old issue of tables for layout raised its head again, by way of a blog post at Ajaxian.org, referring to a recent rant about this very subject. Nicole Sullivan, who spoke at the conference last week, has posted her own rant on the subject, in the tradition […]
O’Rielly and Palm have just published the the first chapter of the upcoming “Developing Applications in JavaScript Using the Palm Mojo Framework“, with a high level overview of webOS and Mojo – the new framework for developing Palm based applications we talked a bit about here, predominantly because it uses web technologies like CSS, HTML5 […]
Plans are well and truly afoot for the next issue of our magazine, Scroll, which we plan to release in time for the Web Directions Roadshow workshop series. If you’re thinking of coming along to one of the workshops, here’s another reason to do so: we’ll be giving out a copy of Scroll Number 2 […]
Last week in Denver, at Web Directions North, we had the great privilege not only of having a keynote by Ben Galbraith and Dion Almaer, founders of the Ajaxian blog, and now heading up a developer tools team at Mozilla, but they also demonstrated a brand new, in-browser developer environment, Bespin, which it must be […]
In 1519, Hernan Cortés (quite possibly one of the most murderous people in human history), arrived in the New World seeking fame, and more importantly fortune. Legend has it that after landing, but before setting off for the interior, he burnt all his ships – as proof to his men, and the indigenous south americans […]
Brian Fling is going to be presenting his Creating Mobile 2.0 Web Apps workshop as part of the Web Directions Roadshow. Andrea Hill attended Brian’s workshop when he gave it in Denver last week, and came away with these 5 salient points you need to consider when deciding between an iPhone native application and a […]
Our good friends and long time media partners over at SitePoint have recently announced a very special offer of 5 of their PDF books for just $29.95 all up, with all proceeds going to the Red Cross Bushfire appeal. Great work SitePoint.
Web Directions South is the must-attend event of the year for anyone serious about web development
Phil Whitehouse General Manager, DT Sydney
