Those of you who use Opera likely know about their very cool, open source development and debugging tool Dragonfly. It’s in many ways similar to Firebug, IE’s developer toolbar, and Safari’s Web Inspector. The folks at Opera are running a short survey to help get a better understanding of what developers like (and don’t like) […]
We’re gearing up for our first @media filling the huge shoes left by founder Patrick Griffiths, and things are shaping up really well. But @media’s not the only thing on next week. The excellent folks at London Web Standards are holding HTML5 and Flash, where are they now?, yet another fine free event from the […]
Our fine friends, and long time supporters SitePoint have been doing a number of interviews with @media speakers in the lead up to the event next week. Craig Buckler speaks with Jonathan Stark, on building native mobile apps using web technologies, and Tom Hughes-Croucher on Server Side JavaScript (SSJS). Tom and Jonathan will also be […]
Our traditional early year timeframe for Web Directions North has come and gone, so you might have been wondering what’s been happening with Web Directions in North America. We’re really excited to be able to say behind the scenes a lot has been going on, and we’re excited to be able to announce our next […]
We’re late to our own party here, but earlier this week we released the results of our second State of Web Development survey (last year it was the state of the web survey, but we changed the name to more closely match the aim of the report). You can download the complete (anonymized) set of […]
Update: Sensis Developer Centre is now the right place to head for for all you need to now about their APIs. In a move that hopefully points to where Sensis is heading with their data, Australia’s White Pages are looking for beta testers for their new API. So if you’ve got an application that could […]
jQuery comes up all the time in our conferences (we’re particularly privileged to have jQuery founder John Resig speaking at @media in London in June). So, it makes more than a little sense to point out that the next jQuery conference is on in San Francisco this coming weekend. A veritable who’s who of not […]
A decade ago, I wrote an article “A Dao of Web Design” that the then youngish A List Apart published apparently exactly 10 years ago today. At the time, I practiced a lot of Tai Chi (which is closely associated with the philosophy of Daoism) (sadly, I do so much less now), and the Tao […]
When Apple finally revealed the world’s second worst kept secret (Ricky Martin today revealed the other one – good for you Ricky), I publicly and privately expressed, along with many others, my initial, if not disappointment, at least state of being underwhelmed. Whatever it was, it wasn’t revolutionary (and let’s face it, we’ve come to […]
Today at MIX, Microsoft announced the first developer preview version of IE9, a far from finished, but usable look at where IE is headed. Microsoft will update this preview very couple of months or so. There’s a great deal new, and much for us in the web design and development community to be encouraged by, […]
Jeopardy champion, fantastic comedian, author, inventor, television writer (credits include CSI and Bones) and much more, Bob Harris came into my life in a way unimaginable only a handful of years ago. My wife was well over due with our first child, and far from contented. She read an article by Bob, I think in […]
A quick note for those web designers and developers out there who’ve not yet taken this year’s “State of the Web” survey – it closes today, so if you have a few minutes, please head along and take it. The survey, follows up on last years and aims to get a snapshot of the technologies […]
A quick note for those thinking about attending @media – we’ve (as has become something of a tradition) extended the super early bird discount of £100 off until March 7th. So, if you’d thought you’d missed out, you’ve got a few more days to register at this pretty amazing price. And (free) places at the […]
Web Directions is very proud to be hosting a really special and fun event on the Friday morning of @media: the Boagworld Big Breakfast. Boagworld is the longest running web design podcast with a passionate and dedicated community from all backgrounds. The show offers something for everyone from the hard core developer to inexperienced website […]
That’s right, someone we’ve been trying for literally years to get to come and speak at one of our events, John Resig, father of JQuery, is speaking on JavaScript testing at @media in London in June. As web applications mature, the need to test systematically and thoroughly is becoming increasingly important, and few people are […]
Web Directions South is the must-attend event of the year for anyone serious about web development
Phil Whitehouse General Manager, DT Sydney
