Web Directions - Part 18

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Inside Web Directions North — YDN Theater

• By: John
• March 6, 2009

The excellent folks at Yahoo Developer Network were out in force at Web Directions North, and among other things, Christian Heilmann (who’ll be running Ajax and JavaScript workshops for us in Sydney and Melbourne in April) interviewed various people in attendance, asking them about how the current economic climate will … Read more »

Web Directions Forum — Got some comments on some session ideas?

• By: Maxine
• March 4, 2009

Lots of activity over at the Web Directions forum.

There’s a few discussions going on that it would be nice to get a bit more detailed input on — comments are where the real gems of information come out! What we’d really like some … Read more »

Announcing Ignite Web in Melbourne April 1st — brought to you by Web Directions

• By: John
• March 2, 2009

After the success of the first two Ignite events in Sydney, the first, highly focussed Ignite event is coming to Melbourne in April.

Ignite events are now held round the world, and have a very distinctive feature — each presentation comprises 20, 15 second auto advanced slides for exactly … Read more »

Australian “web censorship” scheme “effectively scuttled”

• By: John
• February 27, 2009

The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that the widely criticised plan of the Australian Federal Government to have mandatory ISP level filtering of a secret black list of sites has been effectively scuttled

following an independent senator’s decision to join the Greens and Opposition in blocking any legislation required to … Read more »

Announcing Trampoline — Exciting Melbourne Event

• By: Maxine
• February 26, 2009

Got ideas? Love hanging out with other people who have ideas? Got nothing to do on Saturday March 28? Then get yourself along to Trampoline — a brand new event in Melbourne, which is being organised by Pat Allen, Steve Hopkins and … Read more »

Lovely Facebook data visualisation

• By: Maxine
• February 25, 2009

Just found this via Seb Chan at Fresh + New(er). Nexus is a little app that takes all your Facebook connections and their connections with each other, and creates a visualisation of this.

Here are my constellations.

That large galaxy, as … Read more »

Canberra Web Standards Group Meeting — More free books

• By: Maxine
• February 24, 2009

Web Directions Roadshow is sponsoring the next Canberra Web Standards Group meeting, on March 18. Get along to the meeting for your chance to win a copy of

• Indi Young — Mental Models
• Andy Clarke — Transcending CSS
• Luke Wroblewski … Read more »

  The great roadshow book give away

  • By: Maxine
  • February 24, 2009

  If you’ve been thinking about coming to one of the workshops at the Web Directions Roadshow in April, now is the time to seize the day and get your registration in: John brought back a whole bunch of excellent web design and development books from … Read more »

  Web Developer Jobs — they are out there

  • By: John
  • February 20, 2009

  Amid the current economic uncertainty, one little positive point is that good quality jobs are continuing to be posted at our jobs site, currently at almost one a day. So, if you are looking to employ, or pick up a full time, part time of freelance gig, head over to … Read more »

  Web Directions Forum — The First 24 Hours

  • By: Maxine
  • February 18, 2009

  We’re really happy — if a little overwhelmed! — with the number of suggestions, comments and votes our new Web Directions Forum has already generated in its first 24 hrs.

  As I said yesterday, … Read more »

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