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- Links for light reading
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LINKS FOR LIGHT READING
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This weeks "links for light reading" are also available here:
<http://www.maxdesign.com.au/2007/12/19/some-links-155/>
The future of web standards
http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2007/dec/17/standards/
identifying classes / classifying ids
http://www.onderhond.com/blog/work/ids-and-classes
CSS Doc
http://cssdoc.net/
CSS for Accessibility
http://24ways.org/2007/css-for-accessibility
Matrix: HTML 4 Elements and CSS 2 Properties (Beta)
http://meiert.com/en/blog/20071208/html-css-matrix/
Enhance Your AJAX Applications with Visual Cues
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1086215
Implementing Contextual Feedback and Help to Improve the Usability of Web
Applications
http://sitening.com/blog/2007/12/12/implementing-contextual-feedback-and-hel
p-to-improve-the-usability-of-web-applications/
CSS Unworking Group
http://www.stuffandnonsense.co.uk/malarkey/more/css_unworking_group/
Overdoing accessibility
http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200712/overdoing_accessibility/
The state of functional programming in PHP
http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/12/15/the-state-of-functional-programmin
g-in-php/
Consumer Apps: 2007 Year in Review
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/consumer_apps_2007_year_in_review.php
Subdomains and Google
http://www.standardzilla.com/2007/12/12/subdomains-and-google/
Will it fly? how to evaluate a new product idea
http://evhead.com/2007/12/how-to-evaluate-new-product-idea.asp
Understanding CSS Colour modes
http://kilianvalkhof.com/2007/design/understanding-css-colour-modes/
ID Your Body For Greater CSS Control and Specificity
http://css-tricks.com/id-your-body-for-greater-css-control-and-specificity/
A1 Website Download
http://www.micro-sys.dk/products/website-download/
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WSG AND INDUSTRY EVENTS
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Web Direction North '08
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Dates: 28-Jan-08 to 2-Feb-08
City: Vancouver (Canada)
Following great success in 2007, Web Directions North returns in January
2008 for another year of enlightenment, inspiration, networking, and of
course snowboarding.
http://north08.webdirections.org/
Techshare India 2008
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Date: 4-Feb-08 to 5-Feb-08
City: New Delhi (India)
Breaking the Barriers is the first ever accessibility
conference-exhibition bringing the entire ecosystem; the government, the
corporates, the NGOs, the disabled, the product companies, and the education
providers under one roof.
http://www.barrierbreak.com/techshareindia.php
Linux.conf.au
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Dates: 28-Jan-08 to 2-Feb-08
City: Melbourne (Australia)
Next year from January 28th - February 2nd, Melbourne will host one of the
world's best FOSS conferences: Linux.conf.au. On the last day, Saturday
February 2nd we will be running an Open Day for the general public to
showcase open source. The 2007 open day had a fantastic line-up of
Displays.
http://www.linux.org.au/conf/2007/OpenDay.html
Dojo Toolkit Training
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Date: 6-Feb-08 to 8-Feb-08
Location: Sydney (Australia)
Dojo hit 1.0 a couple of weeks ago. It is a great toolkit for building
rich AJAX web apps. Topics Covered: Dojo Base and Dojo Core, Dijit, DojoX,
Dojo Utilities APIs and development issues discussed include: Ajax, Events,
DOM, query, and behavior, Effects, Data providers and Wire, RPC and JSONP,
Custom Dijit Development, dojo.declare and other advanced JavaScript
language constructs and more! Course runs 3 days, it is $2500USD, you need
intermediate or expert javascript skills and you will need to BYOL (bring
your own laptop)
http://www.sitepen.com/training.php?eventId=27
Webstock 08
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Dates: 11-Feb-08 to 15-Feb-08
City: Wellington (New Zealand)
5 full-on days. 9 hands-on workshops. 19 kick-ass speakers. 24 must-see
presentations. Truckloads of design, development, user experience, web
standards, content, community, innovation & inspiration.
http://www.webstock.org.nz
HotMobile 2008
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Dates: 25-Feb-08 to 26-Feb-08
City: Napa Valley (USA)
The Ninth Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile)
continues the series of highly selective, interactive workshops focused on
mobile applications, systems, and environments, as well as their underlying
state-of-the-art technologies. HotMobile's small workshop format makes it
ideal for presenting and discussing new directions or controversial
approaches.
http://prisms.cs.umass.edu/hotmobile2008/
South By South West
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Dates: 7-Mar-08 to 11-Mar-08
City: Austin, Texas (USA)
The SXSW Interactive Festival features five days of exciting panel content
and amazing parties. Attracting digital creatives as well as visionary
technology entrepreneurs, the event celebrates the best minds and the
brightest personalities of emerging technology.
http://2008.sxsw.com/interactive/
Ausweb 08
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Dates: 5-Apr-08 to 9-Apr-08
City: Ballina (Australia)
In April 2008 (5th-9th) the 14th Australasian World Wide Web Conference,
AusWeb08, will again be held at the Ballina Beach Resort.
http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/
CHI 2008
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Date: 5-Apr-08 to 10-Apr-08
City: Florence (Italy)
CHI 2008 focuses on the balance between art and science, design and
research, practical motivation and the process that leads the way to
innovative excellence. It is about balance in our rapidly evolving field,
the balance between individuals and groups, collocated and remote,
stationary and mobile, in both our local and global communities.
http://www.chi2008.org/
webDU 2008
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Dates: 7-May-08 to 9-May-08
City: Sydney (Australia)
And so it begins -- the sixth Asia-Pacific web developers conference, web
DownUnder 2008!
http://www.webdu.com.au/go/call-for-papers
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JOBS
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Job 1
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MySpace Designer/Front End Developer
3 - 6 month contract
Surry Hills Office.
This is your big opportunity
MySpace, leader in social networking is looking for the hottest talent to
develop cutting edge web content and promotions. Our users use MySpace to
meet friends, find and listen to new bands/music, blog, plan events, play
games, and participate in user forums and groups. MySpace is seeking an
outstanding web developer with design skills. The designer will work closely
with producers, designers and developers to develop cutting-edge web content
and promotional materials. You must be creative. You must be a problem
solver. You must be intuitive. You must be positive, likable and able to get
things done. You must be ready to have fun and be passionate about this
opportunity. We want the best.
THE THINGS YOU HAVE TO HAVE:
- Expert Photoshop, proficiency in Illustrator
- HTML/DHTML/XML (Dreamweaver or by hand)
- Javascript
- Advanced CSS
- Standards based coding
- SEO
- Flash animation and basic AS (advanced ActionScript a big ++)
- 3+ years experience in HTML/CSS/Design for consumer-oriented websites
Please send your resume and a sample of your work through to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Thanks
Russ
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