Web Directions - Part 16

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Christian Heilmann at Yahoo! in Sydney

• By: John
• April 18, 2009

Christian Heilmann, JavaScript and web dev guru who we are bringing out for the roadshow next week in Melbourne and Sydney, is also speaking at Yahoo’s offices in Sydney next Wednesday. So if you are keen to hear him, simply RSVP.

On the road part II

• By: John
• April 15, 2009

For those of our readers in Japan, Web Directions Express, along with HTML5 and CSS3 workshops by me, John Allsopp, will be on in Tokyo, Osaka and Kyoto, in mid May. The workshops and evening events are in English, translated into Japanese. Details can be found at our Web … Read more »

On the Road again

• By: John
• April 15, 2009

This year’s Web Directions Roadshow, featuring fantastic full day workshops from local and international experts

• Andy Clarke (Web Design)
• Brian Fling (Mobile web design and development)
• Grant Young (Social Media Strategy)
• Indi Young (Information Architecture)
• Christian Heilmann (JavaScript and Ajax)
• Lisa Herrod (User Testing)

in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra. If you’ve not yet booked, we’ve … Read more »

Know anyone who might be interested in presenting on cloud computing at Web Directions South this year?

• By: Maxine
• April 14, 2009

John and I are keen to do a “briefing” on cloud computing in the Business track at Web Directions this year — see below for a description of the way we’d see this session going. We’d like to find someone who could present this session without necessarily emphasizing any of … Read more »

WaSP’s amazing new education project and curriculum

• By: John
• April 14, 2009

With far less fanfare than it merits, the Web Standards Project recently launched their truly amazing “Interact” web education project, and first stage of their detailed curriculum for educating web professionals.

Frankly, it’s impossible to convey the amount and quality of work that the team has put into it. … Read more »

Ask the browser makers — PEte LePage from the Internet Explorer team

• By: John
• April 13, 2009

In the first of what we hope will be a new, occasional series at Web Directions, we speak with PEte LePage Product Manager, Internet Explorer, Developer Division about their goals with IE8, compatibility mode, with IE7 emulation in IE8 is identical to IE7 and more about the browser. Thanks … Read more »

The perfect is the enemy of the good

• By: Maxine
• April 8, 2009

The perfect is the enemy of the good

Nice quote from Mark Pesce, who has an op ed piece in this morning’s Sydney Morning Herald about the world full of surprises which will open up with the government’s very hi-​​speed broadband network.

Update: I … Read more »

Ignite Web — a great Melburnian night

• By: Maxine
• April 2, 2009

Thanks to everyone who came along to Ignite Web last night at The Apartment in Melbourne, with particular thanks to the presenters for putting so much work into entertaining us all, Steve and Glo and the guys from … Read more »

Sub Cutaneous Human Interaction Technology at WDS09

• By: John
• April 1, 2009

Web Directions continues to push the envelop of technology use at our conferences. From our own social networking applications like web connections, to unique visualizations of twitter and flickr traffic, bluetooth video messages from speakers and attendees and much more, we are at the forefront of innovation.

So, Web Directions South … Read more »

Wanted: Someone to help us with podcasts

• By: Maxine
• March 30, 2009

We’ve got a whole bunch of amazing audio content that came out of Web Directions North — all the presentations were recorded — that we’re really keen to turn into podcasts and get out there. Would anyone be able to spare us a couple of days to help us out … Read more »

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