In our other lives, Maxine and I run westciv – and have done for 15 years or more. Westciv develops tools like Style Master, training courses, and a heap of other things to help web designers and developers. We’ve just released a number of free web based tools to help people explore some of the […]
For fans of BarCamp (and indeed folks who’ve never even heard of them), Sydney’s 5th BarCamp is coming up on June 27th at the Australian Technology Park (a great venue!) So, mark it in your diaries and get ready to participate.
In an encouraging sign given the largely poor economic news we’ve been hearing of late, this week has seen several high profile new jobs posted to our jobs site. News Digital Media/TrueLocal and looking for a Senior Front-end Developer Gruden are looking for an Online Project Manager / Producer Different Solutions are looking for an […]
As far too few people know, Google Maps started life here in Australia, and Google continue to have a large Australian engineering presence. Now, Lars and Jens Rasmussen, two of the founders of what became Google Maps have announced Google Wave – built here in Australia by all indications. What exactly is Google Wave? Well, […]
Regular readers will know of my near fixation with embeddable/downloadable fonts on the web, as now supported in Safari, Firefox 3.5 and Opera 10, and long supported (in a somewhat incompatible way with these other browsers) in Internet Explorer. But the technology has never taken off. Foundries and many type designers have been wary of […]
Anyone who’s been to one of the Web Directions South conferences will have seen Mark Pesce, inventor of VRML, judge on the ABC’s New Inventors, big thinker, and all round guru, speak. While he gracefully retired from our final keynote role after (in fact during) last year’s keynote (like John Farnham I’m sure he’ll be […]
I’m not sure how many Australians will be familiar with DailyKos, an enormously influential and highly trafficked politically liberal online community in the US. DailyKos, frequently singled out by right wing commentators in the mainstream media for vitriolic abuse (which seems to only benefit DK), is an example of an extraordinary online community that has […]
Techworld has a detailed summary of Google’s high performance guru Steve Souder’s recent Tech Ed presentation on web site performance, where he singles out JavaScript as a particular culprit in slowing down sites. With Amazon reporting that a 10th of a second slow down in overall page loading reduced sales by 1%, this is no […]
News from Autoweek, that BMW will now offer full internet access in the dashboard, well. provided your car is travelling at less than 5 kph. One wonders whether the kind of folks with a BMW budget won’t already have a web enabled phone, and whether dedicated in car web access will ever really take off? […]
Announced a few weeks ago, via Stephen Collins we learn that America’s service to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. has been launched. To me, a hugely important step in the transformation of the concept of government to greater transparency and accountability. Remember, […]
(As astute, more likely female readers might guess, Sound of Music is now the new favourite movie at chez Allsopp for the 3 year old) We might forget it, but once IE6 represented a great leap forward for the web. At the time, its support for CSS was really as good as it got. Then, […]
As regular readers and Web Directions attendees will know, we are big big fans of Adrian Holovaty here at WD! Adrian’s latest short post summarizes I think much of why we are such big fans. Highly relevant to the current widespread debate about the future of news and journalism, and whether the internets are killing […]
Each year in March, Microsoft hold MIX, their web focussed conference. For the last three years, Microsoft Australia has been holding REMIX, a one day event bringing focussing on the web, from Microsoft’s perspective. This year’s event is a few weeks off, in Sydney June 11. Clearly Microsoft, and their technologies, play a significant role […]
Thanks to all those who have already registered – WDS09 is off to a great start! We’re also very happy to announce our first exhibitors for 2009 – long time supporters of Web Directions, Campaign Monitor, and XERO, providers of a very popular web based accountancy system. XERO were supporters last year, and this year […]
One can barely move in IT and web circles these days without hearing reference to “the cloud” (in downtown San Francisco late last year I saw billboard and bus ads all over talking about the clouds!). But just what the dickens is it? There’s a nicely title article at Google’s Enterprise blog (referencing a classic […]
Web Directions South is the must-attend event of the year for anyone serious about web development
Phil Whitehouse General Manager, DT Sydney
