After the success of the first two Ignite events in Sydney, the first, highly focussed Ignite event is coming to Melbourne in April. Ignite events are now held round the world, and have a very distinctive feature – each presentation comprises 20, 15 second auto advanced slides for exactly 3 5 minutes of presentation per […]
The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that the widely criticised plan of the Australian Federal Government to have mandatory ISP level filtering of a secret black list of sites has been effectively scuttled following an independent senator’s decision to join the Greens and Opposition in blocking any legislation required to get the scheme started. Sadly […]
Amid the current economic uncertainty, one little positive point is that good quality jobs are continuing to be posted at our jobs site, currently at almost one a day. So, if you are looking to employ, or pick up a full time, part time of freelance gig, head over to Jobs.Webdirections and see what’s on […]
During Web Directions North last week, the tired old issue of tables for layout raised its head again, by way of a blog post at Ajaxian.org, referring to a recent rant about this very subject. Nicole Sullivan, who spoke at the conference last week, has posted her own rant on the subject, in the tradition […]
O’Rielly and Palm have just published the the first chapter of the upcoming “Developing Applications in JavaScript Using the Palm Mojo Framework“, with a high level overview of webOS and Mojo – the new framework for developing Palm based applications we talked a bit about here, predominantly because it uses web technologies like CSS, HTML5 […]
Last week in Denver, at Web Directions North, we had the great privilege not only of having a keynote by Ben Galbraith and Dion Almaer, founders of the Ajaxian blog, and now heading up a developer tools team at Mozilla, but they also demonstrated a brand new, in-browser developer environment, Bespin, which it must be […]
In 1519, Hernan Cortés (quite possibly one of the most murderous people in human history), arrived in the New World seeking fame, and more importantly fortune. Legend has it that after landing, but before setting off for the interior, he burnt all his ships – as proof to his men, and the indigenous south americans […]
Our good friends and long time media partners over at SitePoint have recently announced a very special offer of 5 of their PDF books for just $29.95 all up, with all proceeds going to the Red Cross Bushfire appeal. Great work SitePoint.
The devastating fires, and the continuing, unfolding tragedy in Victoria have surely left no one who has heard of these recent events untouched. At moments like these, our instincts are inevitably to do something, anything to help those suffering. There are many options, for donating blood, money, clothes, toys and more, outlined here at the […]
A few weeks back, we published the results of our first State of the Web survey, and over 1200 web designers, developers, and others in the web industry responded, giving some valuable, and unique insights into the technologies, philosophies and practices of today’s web professionals. Following on from this, next week at Web Directions North, […]
It’s clear from developments over the last few months, and even the last couple of days, that the current economic climate is one few of us, even those old enough to experienced the dot com bust of a few years ago have any great experience of. There’s certainly plenty of cause not to be optimistic. […]
The venerable “A List Apart” today publishes two articles on the state of education for web professionals, the first by Leslie Jensen-Inman, whose recently finished a Master’s thesis, where she interviewed thirty-two web design and development leaders. Each of them expressed interest in the formal education of the next generation of web professionals. Most emphasized […]
Just a quick reminder that the discount period for Web Directions North 2009 ends this Friday, the 17th. Sign up before then for just $895 (including all taxes for): 24 practical, inspiring sessions by world leading experts fully catered breaks and lunches opening night reception and legendary closing night Media Temple party Access to the […]
Palm has just announced their very interesting looking webOS, and Mojo web application framework. Unlike Apple, Palm are essentially making the way you develop for their devices the way you develop for the web. According to Palm, Mojo is: a new application framework based on the HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript standards … webOS applications are […]
There’s an article by me (John) in today’s A List Apart, on the direction that HTML5 is taking in regards to semantics. I have long thought the approach HTML5 takes to extended the semantics of HTML was problematic in several ways, being not backwards compatible with at the very least IE6, and not extensible, and […]
Web Directions South is the must-attend event of the year for anyone serious about web development
Phil Whitehouse General Manager, DT Sydney
