Our series of interviews with conference speakers for Scroll Magazine has proven very popular, both for the insights each has given into that particular speaker but also how they compare to each other. This week, we profile Greg Rewis, speaker at Code 16. For another perspective, later in the week you can also see the […]
At Direction 16, coming up in he middle of November, we’re really fortunate to have a number of our most popular speakers from the last decade returning to help us set a course for the next. So in the coming weeks we’ll be reprising some of the most engaging presentations from recent years, including many […]
It’s great to be back with a new round of “A Dao of the Web” interviews. If you missed some of the earlier ones, I recently chatted with several of the speakers from our Respond conference, including Ethan Marcotte, Karen McGrane, Sara Soueidan, Russ Weakley, Jen Simmons, Rachel Simpson. This week we start with a […]
With digital products, the saying “you never get a second chance at a first impression” is a cold hard fact. There are many hurdles that prevent a potential user from becoming a passionate user and the way that you onboard them to your product can make or break it. Cameron Adams, who has spoken many […]
One of the things I’ve appreciated most with Scroll Magazine, has been the opportunity to get to know some of our speakers better, particularly some of the things you might not necessarily know about them. This week we’re featuring an interview with Stephanie Rewis, a long time contributor through books, blog posts, workshops and presentations […]
Ten years ago, Maxine and I put on our first Web Directions event (having twice helped organise Web Essentials, one of the very earliest conferences of the Web industry anywhere in the world). Ten years is a long time in a person’s life, let alone in a career, and it’s nearly half of the life […]
With our Code conference starting in Sydney in just a few days and in Melbourne next week, our Idea of the Week this week comes from the conference’s Scroll magazine and its editor, Ricky Onsman. As he explains, you should definitely see what your Sydney and Melbourne code-focused meetups are up to this week and […]
The Code conference is upon us this week! Monday Profile is again with one of our international speakers, Yoav Weiss. Yoav is a Web performance and browser internals specialist, whose talk at Code focuses on third party content on websites, mitigating its impact on performance and security, and its longer term implications. This interview is […]
At Respond this year, Jen Simmons gave a very well received session on the current state of CSS layout. A great deal is now possible that never has been before with flexbox, and even more is in the pipeline with Grid layouts. We finally have the tools necessary to create amazing page designs on the […]
With this conversation with Rachel Simpson we reach the end of the first round of conversations we recorded around our Respond Conference. If you’ve missed my other conversations to date, why not take a bit of time to listen to conversations with Ethan Marcotte Karen McGrane Sara Soueidan Russ Weakley Rachel and I spoke about […]
Modals and pop-ups can be a really useful tool for displaying additional information or getting users to enter information in a way that doesn’t clutter up your screen. However as yet (one coming soon) there is no official HTML element that lets us display modals in a consistent way. As a result screen readers, such […]
Bruno Škvorc is a coder from Croatia, the editor of SitePoint’s PHP channel and a developer evangelist for Diffbot.com. He also has a keen interest in developers’ health, including his own, and has set up an initiative for web professionals to pay a bit more attention to their physical well-being. The Walking Dev is the […]
Monday Profile today again shares an interview we conducted with a Code conference speaker. You’ll find all these interviews (and a lot more!) in the second issue of our Scroll Magazine. This week, it’s with Rachel Andrew, whose talk and workshop on CSS Grid Layouts should be a conference highlight. Rachel Andrew: In Person Q […]
You’ve done what you need to do to create a functioning, responsive, good-looking site that works blazingly fast in your development environment. How sure are you, however, that it performs well for your users? Does it render quickly? Does it respond well to user input? Where are the bottlenecks of your site? More importantly, can […]
For some years now, mostly out of sight, a set of inter-related Web technologies have been brewing away. Technologies that address the sort of shortcomings the Web has been considered to have in comparison with native technologies–the ability to integrate more seamlessly with the user’s device and operating system, the ability to work offline, and […]
Web Directions South is the must-attend event of the year for anyone serious about web development
Phil Whitehouse General Manager, DT Sydney
