Web Directions - Part 19

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Announcing the Web Directions South Forum

• By: Maxine
• February 17, 2009

As of today, we’re officially open to your suggestions about any aspect of the conference this year: please come in and take a look around at the brand new Web Directions forum.

And the best part is, every month we’re going to be giving … Read more »

CSS doesn’t suck

• By: John
• February 16, 2009

During Web Directions North last week, the tired old issue of tables for layout raised its head again, by way of a blog post at Ajaxian​.org, referring to a recent rant about this very subject. Nicole Sullivan, who spoke at the conference last week, has posted her own rant … Read more »

webOS — a high level overview

• By: John
• February 16, 2009

O’Rielly and Palm have just published the the first chapter of the upcoming “Developing Applications in JavaScript Using the Palm Mojo Framework”, with a high level overview of webOS and Mojo — the new framework for developing Palm based applications we talked a bit about here, predominantly because … Read more »

Scroll Number 2 — Free copy for roadshow attendees

• By: Maxine
• February 16, 2009

Plans are well and truly afoot for the next issue of our magazine, Scroll, which we plan to release in time for the Web Directions Roadshow workshop series.

If you’re thinking of coming along to one of the workshops, here’s another reason to … Read more »

Bespin, from Mozilla Labs

• By: John
• February 14, 2009

Last week in Denver, at Web Directions North, we had the great privilege not only of having a keynote by Ben Galbraith and Dion Almaer, founders of the Ajaxian blog, and now heading up a developer tools team at Mozilla, but they also demonstrated a brand new, … Read more »

Burning ships — Palm abandons PalmOS, stakes all on webOS

• By: John
• February 13, 2009

In 1519, Hernan Cortés (quite possibly one of the most murderous people in human history), arrived in the New World seeking fame, and more importantly fortune. Legend has it that after landing, but before setting off for the interior, he burnt all his ships — as proof to his men, … Read more »

5 difference between iPhone native and mobile-​​web apps

• By: Maxine
• February 11, 2009

Brian Fling is going to be presenting his Creating Mobile 2.0 Web Apps workshop as part of the Web Directions Roadshow. Andrea Hill attended Brian’s workshop when he gave it in Denver last week, and came away with … Read more »

SitePoint’s great book offer in aid of Bushfire victims

• By: John
• February 11, 2009

Our good friends and long time media partners over at SitePoint have recently announced a very special offer of 5 of their PDF books for just $29.95 all up, with all proceeds going to the Red Cross Bushfire appeal.

Great work SitePoint.

Valentine’s day and Victoria

• By: John
• February 9, 2009

The devastating fires, and the continuing, unfolding tragedy in Victoria have surely left no one who has heard of these recent events untouched. At moments like these, our instincts are inevitably to do something, anything to help those suffering.

There are many options, for donating blood, money, clothes, toys and more, … Read more »

Dan Saffer — Tap is the New Click

• By: Maxine
• February 9, 2009

Way back in 2006, when he’d just published what was to go on to become his very successful book, Designing for Interaction, Dan Saffer came out to Sydney for Web Directions South 06 and presented a much loved workshop of the same name. Since then Dan … Read more »

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