Web Directions - Part 9

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McFarlane Prize: nominations are now open

• By: Maxine
• August 3, 2009

Nominations for the McFarlane Prize for excellence in Australian web design opened over the weekend, on Saturday August 1. If you’ve been involved in the development of a site over the last 12 months that you think deserves recognition for … Read more »

McFarlane Prize 2009

• By: John
• July 27, 2009

A quick note to let you know that the McFarlane Prize for Excellence in Australian Web Design for 2009 will be open for nominations from August the 1st for one month.

The Prize is free to enter, and is open to any Australian individual or team for a site … Read more »

Looking for an Illustrator

• By: John
• July 27, 2009

I’m currently working on what hopefully will be a high profile book for web developers from a very well known publisher. A major problem is I’m a terrible illustrator, and would love these illustrations to be top notch. The illustrations themselves are nothing too complex — for the most part … Read more »

Threaded JavaScript with Web Workers

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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”

• 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

• 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 »

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