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Threaded JavaScript with Web Workers

• In: Blog
• By: John
• July 23, 2009

JavaScript guru (developer of JQuery among many other things) John Resig, goes into detail about “Web Workers”, a new WHATWG and W3C specification for running background JavaScript in a browser, much like the concept of threading found in many programming languages. Currently supported in Safari 4 and Firefox … Read more »

Cameron Adams on Designing Google Wave

• In: Blog
• By: Maxine
• July 21, 2009

We were really excited to announce that Cameron Adams will be speaking at Web Directions South this year on his experiences working as part of the Google Wave team. For an extensive preview of Cameron’s presentation, check out this … Read more »

Win a ticket to Web Directions South 2009

• In: Blog
• By: Maxine
• July 20, 2009

Want to come to Web Directions South 2009 for free? One of our media partners for this year, SitePoint, is running a quiz, testing your knowledge of the conference, that gives you a chance to win a full free ticket to the conference on October 8 and 9…. Read more »

Graduate Web Designer position at Network Ten

• In: Blog
• By: John
• July 19, 2009

Fresh into our jobs site, a position for a graduate to start as a Junior Web Designer in the Digital Media department at Network Ten. Read more at jobs.webdirections.

Win an iPod Shuffle

• In: Blog
• By: Maxine
• July 14, 2009

With early bird pricing only just over, conference registrations have been coming in thick and fast, putting us on track to go way beyond previous years in fact - it’s exciting!

This next fortnight we’re doing a bit of a push then on that great series of … Read more »

ChromeOS, another step in the direction of “the web, everywhere”

• In: Blog
• By: John
• July 10, 2009

There’s probably little to be added to the gigabytes of responses to Google’s announcement a couple of days back of their “ChromeOS”.

As with the Palm Pre, if not more so, as the announcement says “For application developers, the web is the platform”.

I said a few days ago, have … Read more »

$200 early bird discount ends tonight

• In: Blog
• By: John
• July 10, 2009

As we mentioned earlier in the week, our $200 early bird discount ends tonight at the stroke on midnight (AEST).

So, to come to Web Directions for the very very reasonable price of just $795 (inc GST) just sign up before midnight.

Note, you don’t have to actually pay right now … Read more »

Civility and the great (XHTM(5)2) debate (now in comic form)

• In: Blog
• By: John
• July 10, 2009

Those following recent developments with HTML5 and XHTML2 might have noticed some concerns about the lack of civility, and adult communications by a number of folks associated with this whole currently rather heated issue. Kyle Weems, CSS Squirrel, and web cartoonist has succinctly captured the issue in the nicest possible … Read more »

CSS3 Reloaded - John Allsopp at Melbourne WSG meetup - July 20

• In: Blog
• By: Maxine
• July 9, 2009

If you’re in Melbourne this July 20 there’s a whole bunch of really good reasons to go along to the WSG meeting at Loop Bar at 6.30pm.

Firstly, along with SitePoint, Web Directions is sponsoring, so, drinks and food are on us.

Secondly, … Read more »

Zero to hero with jQuery workshop - only one space left

• In: Blog
• By: Maxine
• July 7, 2009

Just as they have with the main conference, numbers have also crept up fast with the workshops this year. So much so that Earle Castledine’s Zero to hero with jQuery workshop is about to sell out. There’s only one place left, so, if you’ve … Read more »

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