The last 2 months have been incredibly hectic for us here at Web Directions. In the space of a bit over 3 weeks, we ran our first Web Directions USA in Atlanta, the first ever Amped, in Atlanta, then backed up 2 weeks later in Sydney for Web Directions South, and Amped South. 10 days […]
John Gruber, well known and highly successful opinionista, is perhaps the highest profile carrier of the “native” apps are intrinsically better than web apps meme (let’s call it Native is better Syndrome, or NIBS). I think it’s time for some vaccination. Let’s take a look at the most recent outbreak of NIBS. In response to […]
In 2006, we instituted the McFarlane Prize, in memory of Nigel McFarlane, to promote excellence in Australian web design and development, and highlight the Australian Web industry. We’re proud to announce this year’s shortlist, with the winner to be announced on Thursday at Web Directions. A huge thanks to our Jury this year – Kai […]
The second Australian Web Week kicks off today, with a load of return events from last year, as well as plenty of new events as well. A huge thanks to all those who are putting on events – many of which are free. Today the week kicked off with the latest instalment of Australia’s IA […]
Next week sees Web Directions USA head to Atlanta for the first time. We’re really looking forward to what is shaping up as a great event in a town I’ve really grown to like (not least because of the fantastic web folks here). We’re also really proud to be working with great Atlanta based groups […]
One of our favourite Australian digital/web folks, Seb Chan, has this to say about Web Directions today Web Directions South is an event we always try to send team members along to to expand their technical and conceptual knowledge of where the web is heading. Paula’s going to be covering a broad range of Powerhouse […]
We know that the Agile approach to development is very popular among many of you in web development, and Australia’s Agile methodology conference, Agile Australia, is coming up September 15 and 16 in Melbourne. Lots of excellent speakers and practical content on the menu – so make sure if Agile’s your thing (or you think […]
When you hear about the latest web technologies and techniques do you ever think “damn, I wish I could play with these right now”? Enter Amped – the Hackday, reloaded. We’ve taken the traditional hack day, pulled it apart, thought long and hard about what’s great, what’s not so great, and how as many different […]
Hot on the heels of my recent HTML5 course with SitePoint, is our new CSS3 Live course, starting today, August 16. It features screencasts, exercises, articles, and live streamed FAQs, and runs for 3 weeks. We cover selectors, properties, media queries, and more in real depth – so if you’re comfortable with CSS, and want […]
Tech23, in its second year now, is a great event in Sydney focussing on commercial technology innovation. Featuring a combination of insights from leaders in the tech industry, and a shootout for some serious prizes by 23 early stage technology companies, and all wrapping up with a great awards night, it’s no doubt an event […]
A quick note to all that with SitePoint, a fantastic community for web designers and developers, and publisher of many excellent design and development books, I’ll be running a two week course, online starting next Monday on HTML5. And best of all, it’s only $US9.95 (yep, less than a tenner!) Here’s how it works. Each […]
We’re really excited to take the wraps off Web Directions South for 2010. This has been a big year for Web Directions, with our first ever @media just wrapping up in London, and the recently announced Web Directions US in Atlanta. But our home will always be Sydney, and we’re pretty sure we’ve lined up […]
Just a quick update on our “No Bit, Sherlock” competition, where you can win some great prizes like XBoxes, Mindstorms and a SONY Vaio just for building an SVG button, or progress control. There’s plenty of great examples you can learn from (remember, “view source” is not a sin, it’s how we all learned everything […]
We’ve just wrapped up the first @media event run by Web Directions here in London, and if we say so ourselves, it’s been a huge hit. An incredible array of speakers, covering a wide range of breaking topics including CSS3, HTML5, mobile web app development, geolocation, but much much more as well. We’ll have most […]
To date, SVG has been rather the Cinderella of web standards (people forget that Cinderella was the beautiful, but overlooked sibling before the whole glass slipper business). But since the handsome Prince (Internet Explorer 9) showed interest in her, things have been looking up. OK, so I’ve pushed the metaphor far too hard, but the […]
Web Directions South is the must-attend event of the year for anyone serious about web development
Phil Whitehouse General Manager, DT Sydney
