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Facebook acquires Oculus Rift — The Tweets

• In: Blog
• By: Maxine
• March 26, 2014

If you work in tech the news of the day isn’t the reintroduction of dames and knights here in Australia, though that is certainly good for a quick giggle. No, words on everyone’s lips this morning have been “Oculus Rift” and “Facebook” and “end of the world as we know … Read more »

Can this web we love be sustainable too?

• In: Blog
• By: Maxine
• March 18, 2014

It was lovely to receive an email from an old “friend of Web Directions” the other day, Donal O Duibhir. If you’ve been to our events you may remember Donal as that guy who was absolutely passionate about networks of all kinds, and in particular about the wifi network … Read more »

The Web at 25

• In: Blog
• By: John
• March 13, 2014

As you have almost certainly seen, (not least in Maxine’s post yesterday) in a sense the Web turns 25 today (though it’s really more the anniversary of its conception rather than birth). 25 years ago today, Tim (now Sir Tim) Berners-​​Lee presented his then boss at Cern … Read more »

Does the web need a bill of rights?

• In: Blog
• By: Maxine
• March 12, 2014

Sir Tim Berners-​​Lee says yes, we do, if we are going to protect and enshrine the independence of the medium he created. He spoke of his concerns in a recent Guardian interview:

Unless … Read more »

The Road to a Code of Conduct

• In: Blog
• By: Maxine
• March 6, 2014

After months of hand wringing, today Web Directions cut the Gordian knot and published a code of conduct for our events. You can check it out here.

Seems like a good idea, you say, why all the hand wringing?

Well, it’s a … Read more »

What Do *You* Know?

• In: Blog
• By: John
• March 4, 2014

tl;dr

What do you Know is an evening of fun, fast presentations on all things Web, drink or two from our sponsors Silverstripe, and a room full of your Web professional peers. And we’re always looking for speakers, so if you want to take the next step with your presentations, … Read more »

Web Directions Code 2013: responding to your feedback

• In: Blog
• By: Maxine
• February 26, 2014

For some years now John and I have included working through the anonymous feedback as part of our “retro” after an event. Painful as it can sometimes be (we have feelings too, and no one likes to hear that their baby is ugly! :), there are always a number of … Read more »

Offscreen Magazine: in the house at Web Directions Code

• In: Blog
• By: Maxine
• February 24, 2014

Web Directions has been an Offscreen Magazine subscriber from the get-​​go, coveting our well thumbed collection here at the office, and, I’m not ashamed to admit, I believe we do in fact have an extra full set … Read more »

A round up of Web animation resources

• In: Blog
• By: John
• February 20, 2014

Well, things are hotting up in the Web animation world, with a pair of articles at A List Apart, on UI Animation and UX, and Web animation at work but if you’ve followed us for a while, you’ll likely know we’ve been big on Web animation since before … Read more »

Web Directions Code — what’s that all about?

• In: Blog
• By: Maxine
• February 19, 2014

A few years ago, after years of making Sydney the home of Web Directions South, we decided that Melbourne really deserved a bit of love as well. Especially as over the years we had seen so many people make the trip up to Sydney, it really was only fair that … Read more »

A Responsive New Year to You All!

• In: Blog
• By: Maxine
• January 8, 2014

You know, I think we might be approaching a time when what we have been calling “Responsive Web Design” simply becomes “Web Design”. But this doesn’t mean we’ll all reach a point any time soon where we know everything there is to know about the subject. Just as it always … Read more »

Announcing Respond, the Responsive Web Design Festival

• In: Blog
• By: John
• December 19, 2013

When Brand Marketing blogs are writing about the importance of Responsive web sites, you know it’s mainstream. But here at Web Directions we very much believe we’re only beginning to understand the challenges, opportunities, and practices for the long promised multi-​​screen Web.

So, to help designers and developers … Read more »

Happy 17th Birthday CSS

• In: Blog
• By: John
• December 18, 2013

CSS1 became a W3C Recommendation (one of the very earliest) on this day (if you’re on the appropriate side of the international dateline) back in 1996. 17 years, which is quite a long time in the technology world (it actually predates the W3C’s first HTML specification, HTML 3.2 by about … Read more »

Web Directions South 2013 Trailer

• In: Blog, Video
• By: John
• December 5, 2013

Want to know what it's like to attend a Web Directions event? Get a taste with the Web Directions South 2013 trailer.

The (other) Web we lost

• In: Blog
• By: John
• December 3, 2013

TL;DR; In the aftermath of the Browser Wars, the W3C and developer groups like the Web Standards Project worked long and hard to rebuild a unified, un-fragmented Web. But these last few years, we developers have gone and re-fragmented it all over again all by ourselves. Maybe we should ... Read more »

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