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2008 November | Web Directions

News from November 2008

Memories and articles from back in the day

Now officially very angry with Facebook

• In: Blog
• By: John
• November 21st, 2008

After yesterday’s saga with Facebook, I had hoped the rude message I’d received was the extent of the problems I’d face. Wrong.

Today, responding to a birthday greeting for tomorrow on my wall, from a friend, I received the following

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Focus on education at Web Directions North

• In: Blog
• By: John
• November 21st, 2008

A significant focus for us at Web Directions North will be educating the next generation of web professionals. It’s clear from many conversations we’ve had with those in the industry, recent graduates, employers, and others, that on the whole, the education systems world wide simply aren’t preparing people for the … Read more »

Australian Film Industry emulates last centuries failed business models - suing ISPs

• In: Blog
• By: John
• November 20th, 2008

Well, at least (for now) it’s not users, but news today via the Sydney Morning Herald that Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT), the histrionically named consortium of Australian Film and Television companies such as Village Roadshow, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, 20th Century Fox, … Read more »

How not to communicate

• In: Blog
• By: John
• November 20th, 2008

Yes, like all of you out there, I use Facebook. But so many of the things it does annoys me (and worse).

Here’s a perfect example.

I’ve been using Facebook to message a small number of folks I’ve messaged in the past about various professional matters. Sadly, the send mechanism simply wasn’t … Read more »

JS-909 - Cameron Adams’ Drum Machine in JavaScript

• In: Blog
• By: Maxine
• November 20th, 2008

If you went to Craig Sharkie’s JavaScript Libraries Panel at Web Directions South this year, you will no doubt be familiar with this latest work of that obsessive genius, Cameron Adams. Craig charged Cameron with … Read more »

HTML5 Markup Language first draft published

• In: Blog
• By: John
• November 14th, 2008

HTML5 is big. It contains multitudes. It’s very much a work in progress. One important milestone in that process occurred today, with the publication of the first draft of the HTML5 Language first draft, titled, perhaps a little confusingly “HTML: The Markup Language”

This specification describes the fifth major version … Read more »

Time picker

• In: Blog
• By: John
• November 12th, 2008

Via John Resig, a brand new control concept (and implementation using JQuery), for picking the time. At first glance, it seems far more efficient than popup menus for hours and minutes, and more adapted to a mouse driven interface than the iPhones nifty time chooser. Is a new UI … Read more »

Oomph Developers interviewed at Delicate Genius

• In: Blog
• By: John
• November 9th, 2008

Following up the last post on Microsoft’s Oomph and microformats toolkit, Michael “Delicate Genius” Kordahi has a video interview with the brains behind Oomph. Check it out.

Web Directions East in Tokyo - a great success

• In: Blog
• By: John
• November 9th, 2008

We’re just wrapping up the workshops at our first ever Web Directions in Tokyo, and a great event it has been.

Events like Web Directions aren’t at all common here, and despite I think some skepticism, turnout was fantastic, and the response by those involved who I’ve spoken with has … Read more »

Print’s not dead

• In: Blog
• By: Maxine
• November 7th, 2008

Its purpose has just changed.

This blog post from Khoi Vinh got me thinking.

Interesting that Khoi chose to publish the photo in black and white. Maybe he always does this to fit in with the style of his blog, but, for me it emphasises a broader point as well. A … Read more »

WDS08 speakers - SitePoint interviews

• In: Blog
• By: Maxine
• November 5th, 2008

One of our media partners, SitePoint, did a whole bunch of interviews while they were covering the event this year, all of which are now online. So, if you enjoyed what you heard from the people below while you were at the conference, be sure to check out the following … Read more »

Lessons learned while developing an iPhone site

• In: Blog
• By: Maxine
• November 4th, 2008

Got a client who wants you to build an iPhone site? There’s a growing body of resources out there that will help you learn from the hard won experience of those who have gone before you. Check out this one from the Flickr team. And closer to home, here’s … Read more »