Regular Web Directions attendee Priscilla Brice-Weller is the Online Campaigner for advocacy organisation, ANTaR (Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation). Priscilla also blogs about technology and activism at Solidariti. It being NAIDOC week, I thought this might be a good occasion to hear about the work Priscilla does at ANTaR, and how grassroots organisations the […]
Despite all the (justified) doom and gloom about data plans and pricing, one lucky person is still going to win an iPhone courtesy of Web Directions this Friday morning, even at the ridiculous gouge it will almost certainly be to get one without a plan from either Optus, Vodafone or Telstra. As we’ve always said […]
Welcome folks from round the interwebs – this article seems to be getting widely read. If you want to know a little more about what we do (run conferences for Web Professionals) take a look at our upcoming Sydney Conference. And please leave your thoughts on the issue of mobile data pricing plans in Australia. […]
Via our good friend Dan Cederholm (we’ll get him out to Australia to speak one day soon we promise!) here’s a whole section at Business Week, the venerable US business magazine, on Web Design. Aussie web super success story, Remember the Milk get a nice mention as well. Also featured are last year’s speaker Brian […]
Via Slashdot (described cruelly but amusingly as “women’s weekly for geeks” by one mart young developer I know), we find this article at CIO magazine – 9 Reasons Why Application Developers Think Their CIO Is Clueless. Having been the CIO and main developer most of the time at westciv, I can see both points of […]
BuilderAU has been a media partner, supporter since the first Web Directions conference, providing us with much appreciated publicity, and covering the conferences in no small detail – with audio, video and text based stories, interviews and more. You can find all their coverage of our past events here. While part of the CNET family, […]
We’ve just added another session to the dev track at the conference this year. Additional to sessions on Ajax Security, Javascript Libraries, Web App Frameworks, Oauth and OpenID and Web Vector Graphics, we now have Mike Smith of the W3C HTML Working Group, who will be presenting A Jungle Cruise through the Wild Regions of […]
Aussie Web 2.0 startup 99designs.com is looking for a front end specialist – this is a great opportunity for someone who really knows their stuff to work in a fast paced, fun environment with a highly motivated, switched on team. 99designs.com is the latest project from the SitePoint guys – a group of people who […]
Web Directions South is the must-attend event of the year for anyone serious about web development
Phil Whitehouse General Manager, DT Sydney
