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CSS3 Linear Gradients

• In: Blog, developer
• By: John
• July 1, 2011

It’s been a while since we posted anything particularly technical to the Web Directions blog, but that’s something we plan on changing. Here’s the first in a series of technical articles on CSS3 features (along with tools to help you lean and use them).

We’re starting with linear gradients. We’ll take … Read more »

Jack Draws anything at @media

• In: Blog
• By: John
• June 11, 2011

I’d not heard of Jack Draws anything, a wonderful initiative by the 6 year old Jack Henderson who will draw whatever you want, for a donation that goes to the Sick Kids Foundation. So far he’s raised £20,000!

Bruce Lawson, one of the great presenters at @media asked Jack to … Read more »

Make the world a little better place at RHoK, Melbourne, June 4 and 5

• In: Blog
• By: John
• May 23, 2011

What:

Random Hacks of Kindness

Where:

Swinburne University of Technology, Advanced Technologies Centre

When:

Sat June 4 and Sun June 5 2011

Who:

Designers, developers, IxD and UX experts, students and professionals

How Much:

Free! But please RSVP

You’ve got the skills, and they pay the bills. But, wouldn’t it be great to … Read more »

Unplugged closing keynote streaming live

• In: Blog
• By: John
• May 14, 2011

Toda’s closing keynote session by Jason Grigsby will be streamed live, courtesy of our excellent friends at pinch/​zoom.

So pop by at 4pm Pacific Time (midnight GMT, 9am Australian east coast, 8am Tokyo) for what will be a fantastic session.

Come Hack the NSW State Library with us tomorrow

• In: Blog
• By: John
• May 6, 2011

If you’ve missed the twitter and other announcements, tomorrow, Web Directions is running an event with the NSW State Library, Mashup the Mitchell, as part of the month-​​long LibraryHack event run by the state libraries, plus Australian and NZ National Libraries.

Now, in this always on world, Libraries don’t … Read more »

State of (Mobile) Web Development Report

• In: Blog
• By: John
• May 5, 2011

We’ve just published the first “State of (Mobile) Web Development” Report, analysing the results of our recent survey of over 1,300 developers.

In previous years, we’ve published a single report covering the entire survey, but this year, with the rise in interest in HTML5 and mobile development, we’re also publishing … Read more »

3rd Annual State of Web Development Survey

• In: Blog
• By: John
• March 10, 2011

We’ve just launched our third State of Web Development Survey, where we ask web practitioners, designers and developers, what technologies and practices they currently use.

This year, the survey has undergone quite an overhaul, with an additonal focus on HTML5 and application development, alongside our focus on web page … Read more »

iPads? HTML5? Hot, or not?

• In: Blog
• By: Maxine
• March 8, 2011

We did a quick survey of Web Directions conference attendees reactions, observations, opinions, rants and praises on the latest tech tools: HTML 5 and iPad … so is it Hot or Not? Check out how your peers rate them!

Craig Mod interviewed at Web Directions South

• In: Blog
• By: Maxine
• February 23, 2011

Following on from last week’s James Bridle interview, this week we continue the books theme as Danielle interviews Craig Mod. Craig is a writer, designer, publisher and … Read more »

apps4nsw Wrap up

• In: Blog
• By: John
• February 22, 2011

On Saturday, we had the privilege of running apps4nsw, for the DSTA, the NSW Department of Services, Technology and Administration, at the Powerhouse Museum. Over 150 developers, designers and others turned up from 8am for 12 hours of brainstorming, app building, presentations, and prizes. More than 40 projects were entered … Read more »

James Bridle — Web Directions South 2010 interview

• In: Blog
• By: Maxine
• February 14, 2011

Over the next couple of weeks we shall tackle the hot issue of e-​​book and e-​​publishing. We begin with interviewing Web Directions South 2010 British speaker James Bridle, following it up next week with San Franciso based Craig Mod’s slightly different take on this very intriguing topic…

Title: E-​​Books

By: … Read more »

Our latest event, Unplugged: Building awesome native & web apps with open web technologies

• In: Blog
• By: John
• February 10, 2011

For years now, the web has been evolving from a web of pages and documents, to being more application oriented. We’ve long seen “webapps” of the likes of Flickr, and Gmail, but with HTML5, particularly on iOS, Android, webOS, and other emerging platforms we are seeing open web technologies becoming … Read more »

Apps4NSW — In the tradition of Amped and GovHack

• In: Blog
• By: John
• February 3, 2011

Back in late 2009, we were privileged to be asked by the Australian Government 2.0 Taskforce to run an event encouraging developers, designers and others to build great applications with open government data. The success (and downright plain fun of GovHack) got us here at Web Directions wondering … Read more »

Scott Thomas: Video interview from Web Directions South 2010

• In: Blog
• By: Maxine
• February 1, 2011

Last year at Web Directions South Danielle Szetho had a great time interviewing a bunch of our speakers. Today, thanks to the people at Hunting with Pixels, we’re going to start publishing the videos of these … Read more »

Help a (bobsledding) brother out?

• In: Blog
• By: Maxine
• January 31, 2011

Joe Clark, who did us the honour of speaking at the very first conference we ever produced, Web Essentials (way back in 2004), got in touch the other month with a project he’s hoping to get a bit of help for. It’s definitely not your run-​​of-​​the-​​mill affair, but it’s something … Read more »

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