The following posts will be in raw note form for now so as to allow me to keep up with the presentations while getting as much online as possible. When I get some more this evening I will come back and expand upon the points. Caution: falling character debris… [tags] wdo6, raw notes[/tags]
Dave Shea, Derek Featherstone, Maxine Sherrin and John Allsopp are proud to annouce Web Directions North 2007. Workshops, a two day conference featuring an amazing lineup of speakers, and two days of skiing and boarding (or just relaxing) at Blackcomb/Whistler. All the details are available right now at the Web Directions North site. Tickets will […]
Sitepoint, Melbourne based publishing company, and platinum sponsors of Web Directions South, are looking for a web design and development expert technical editor to join their team. Read on if you are interested. Technical Editor for Sitepoint Want to work with the team behind one of the most popular web sites in the world and […]
For a good while now, Cam “the man in blue” Adams, and Tim “toolman” Lucas have been toiling away on a a killer webapp to compliment web directions, “web connections“. To prove the adage “great minds think alike” only a couple of weeks ago d.Construct’s, Backnetwork app went live too. The aim of both the […]
We announced our “Web Direction’s design your own web 2.0 t shirt slogan and wear it to the conference” competition a few days ago. Sadly, because a trailing slash is sometimes important (well, the absence of it is), the link in that post was broken. So one more time, here is the story – start […]
The indefatigable Miles Burke, of Bam Creative, and one of the founders of the Web industry association Port80, along with a whole tribe of sandgropers (that’s folks from Western Australia for our non Australian audience) are once more heading east for Web Directions. Each year more of them come, and each year they seem to […]
Yesterday I was having a chat with someone from a large Australian site who do all kinds of interesting work. They’d have to be close to one of the largest Australian sites in terms of traffic, and do lots of innovative stuff. We were talking about how easy, or otherwise it is to find people […]
Last year the conference we were associated with, WE05, was almost fully podcast within hours of the close of play – one of the first, if not the first fully podcast conference we know of. Sadly earlier this year, the podcasts went AWOL, but as a means of digital preservation, we are bringing them back […]
The last couple of years, the number one request has been for conference tee shirts. So we are excited to announce the Web Directions Tee Shirts, featuring our new logo, designed by guru and web superstar, Dave “CSS Zen Garden” Shea, available online now. You can of course get a straightforward web directions tee shirt […]
Ben Barren of gnoos.com.au, recently launched aussie blog search engine, are looking for a developer. If you are keen, drop him a line. In fact, lots of people ask us for recommendations of freelance or potential in-house developers, and from what I can tell, demand far outstrips supply. So, if you are after a developer, […]
Last year, our impromptu closing night drinks at the Pumphouse Hotel Darling Harbour [1] was a great success. Tired but elated after three days of workshops and the conference, having packed up and left the venue, I walked down to the pub expecting to see a few people having a good time, and found a […]
I think to those coming to or interested in Web Directions, the W3C, or World Wide Web Consortium, founded by Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, will be very well known. We’ve had great presentations by Dean Jackson from the W3C the last two years, and this year he’s the coding judge for the McFarlane Prize. Recently, CSIRO […]
If you’ve got a lot of portable digital gear, laptops, cameras, ipods, game machines, tamagotchis, then you soon realize you need really good bags for keeping it in one piece while lugging it to and from the office, on places, in cars, where ever. A couple of years back, when I started traveling a lot, […]
Thanks so much to all who came along last night, but most of all thank you to Emily Boyd and Stephen Cox who went to a lot of trouble to prepare their presentations. More on those in a second. It really was great to see so many new faces last night among the familiar ones. […]
Web Directions South is the must-attend event of the year for anyone serious about web development
Phil Whitehouse General Manager, DT Sydney
