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State of Web Development 2010

• By: John
• April 30, 2010

We’re late to our own party here, but ear­lier this week we released the results of our sec­ond State of Web Development sur­vey (last year it was the state of the web sur­vey, but we changed the name to more closely match the aim of the report).

You can … Read more »

White Pages Australia new API — beta testers wanted

• By: John
• April 21, 2010

In a move that hope­fully points to where Sensis is head­ing with their data, Australia’s White Pages are look­ing for beta testers for their new API. So if you’ve got an appli­ca­tion that could ben­e­fit from all that data on busi­ness, gov­ern­ment and per­sonal con­tacts, get in touch … Read more »

jQuery conference in San Francisco next week

• By: John
• April 19, 2010

jQuery comes up all the time in our con­fer­ences (we’re par­tic­u­larly priv­i­leged to have jQuery founder John Resig speak­ing at @media in London in June).

So, it makes more than a lit­tle sense to point out that the next jQuery con­fer­ence is on in San Francisco this com­ing week­end. … Read more »

A dao of web design turns 10

• By: John
• April 8, 2010

A decade ago, I wrote an arti­cle “A Dao of Web Design” that the then youngish A List Apart pub­lished appar­ently exactly 10 years ago today.

At the time, I prac­ticed a lot of Tai Chi (which is closely asso­ci­ated with the phi­los­o­phy of Daoism) (sadly, I do so much … Read more »

iPad, Work Discipline and Post Industrial Capitalism

• By: John
• March 30, 2010

When Apple finally revealed the world’s sec­ond worst kept secret (Ricky Martin today revealed the other one — good for you Ricky), I pub­licly and pri­vately expressed, along with many oth­ers, my ini­tial, if not dis­ap­point­ment, at least state of being under­whelmed. Whatever it was, it wasn’t rev­o­lu­tion­ary (and … Read more »

McFarlane Prize 2009 — The Book

• By: Maxine
• March 30, 2010

At Web Directions South last year we announced that we would be com­mem­o­rat­ing the 2009 McFarlane Prize by pro­duc­ing a beau­ti­ful high qual­ity hard cover book con­tain­ing all 48 of the short­listed entires. Thanks to a lot of hard work … Read more »

Introducing #wdx

• By: Maxine
• March 18, 2010

There have been words out and about regard­ing the name of our London event for this year, Web Directions @media. To explain a lit­tle where that name has come from, the con­fer­ence this time around is a hybrid as we take over the reins of the highly … Read more »

SVG and IE9

• By: John
• March 17, 2010

Today at MIX, Microsoft announced the first devel­oper pre­view ver­sion of IE9, a far from fin­ished, but usable look at where IE is headed. Microsoft will update this pre­view very cou­ple of months or so.

There’s a great deal new, and much for us in the web design and devel­op­ment … Read more »

The Myths of Innovation — Remixed and Remastered

• By: Maxine
• March 11, 2010

A few years back, Scott Berkun gave one of the most highly regarded pre­sen­ta­tions we have ever had at a Web Directions event. It was called the Myths of Innovation, and peo­ple still but­ton­hole me to say how great it was, or to bemoan the fact that their life­time regret … Read more »

Bob Harris’s closing Keynote at Web Directions North 09

• By: John
• March 4, 2010

Jeopardy cham­pion, fan­tas­tic come­dian, author, inven­tor, tele­vi­sion writer (cred­its include CSI and Bones) and much more, Bob Harris came into my life in a way unimag­in­able only a hand­ful of years ago. My wife was well over due with our first child, and far from con­tented. She … Read more »

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