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This is a one-way list for WSG Announcements
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This email covers:
- Links for light reading
- WSG and Industry events
- Industry related jobs
If you have an event, resource or relevant job you'd like posted
(from any country), please let me know - [email protected]
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LINKS FOR LIGHT READING
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This weeks "links for light reading" are also available here (for
those who click on the links below and find that they are broken):
<http://www.maxdesign.com.au/2009/05/27/some-links-230/>
10 Intelligent Ways of using [FORM] Elements
<http://www.noupe.com/css/10-intelligent-ways-of-using-form-
elements.html#more-12599>
CSS - Contents and compatibility - mobile
<http://quirksmode.org/m/css.html>
HTML5 Microdata - Over-cooked?
<http://fberriman.com/2009/05/24/html5-microdata-over-cooked/>
How to Override Inline CSS Styles
<http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/05/27/override-inline-css/>
Burnout
<http://www.alistapart.com/articles/burnout/>
CSS Quick-Question Edition
<http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/05/25/ask-sm-css-quick-question-
edition/>
Creating Intrinsic Ratios for Video
<http://www.alistapart.com/articles/creating-intrinsic-ratios-for-
video/>
The little manual of API design
<http://chaos.troll.no/~shausman/api-design/api-design.pdf>
Universal Internet Explorer 6 CSS
<http://forabeautifulweb.com/blog/about/
universal_internet_explorer_6_css/>
Dinky pocketbooks with WebKit transforms | Natalie Downe
<http://natbat.net/2009/May/21/pocketbooks/>
JS-Placemaker - geolocate texts in JavaScript
<http://icant.co.uk/jsplacemaker/>
djng
<http://github.com/simonw/djng/tree/master>
On trust and the path to embracing Web 2.0
<http://www.theappgap.com/on-trust-and-embracing-web20.html>
HTML5-scaffold
<http://github.com/cgriego/html5-scaffold/issues>
Introduction to Web Accessibility
<http://www.webaim.org/intro/>
The wisdom of crowdsourcing
<http://nett.com.au/marketing/quick-fix/the-wisdom-of-crowdsourcing/
11382.html>
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WSG AND INDUSTRY EVENTS
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SilverStripe
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Date: 27-May-09
City: London (UK)
SilverStripe staff are hitting the US East Coast and UK in May. We're
keen to meet developers and organisations interested in our software
and our business. You'll get to learn the story behind SilverStripe,
influence our upcoming decisions, ask pointed questions, and get a
preview of upcoming features! Events are free.
<http://www.silverstripe.org/meet-us-in-philadelphia-new-york-
washington-dc-london-may-2009/>
Port80 Sydney
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Saasu Offices
Level One, 111 Elizabeth St
Sydney NSW 2000
<http://www.milesburke.com.au/blog/2009/05/04/port80-may-2009-roadtrip/>
Max Design CSS and Accessibility workshop series - 2009
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Dates: 28-May-09 and 29 May-09
City: Brisbane (Australia)
A hands-on workshop with accessibility expert, Roger Hudson, and CSS
expert,
Russ Weakley:
Day 1: A practical guide to preparing WCAG 2 compliant websites
Day 2: Mastering CSS and XHTML - building elegant websites
<http://maxdesign.com.au/workshop2009/>
Remix 09
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Date: 11-Jun-09
City: Sydney (Australia)
Catch the cream of the Australian Web industry for a huge knowledge
download. 20 Industry Leaders plus dozens of real life examples of
rich digital experiences make REMIX09 the must-attend event for
designers, developers and Web professionals.
<http://www.microsoft.com/australia/remix/>
Brisbane Django - Python meet up
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Date: Tuesday 16-Jun-09
City: Brisbane (Australia)
Talk about Django, the topic for this meet up will be: "Application
side caching in Django, and development methods". And everything else
that people like to discuss.
<http://www.meetup.com/django-brisbane/>
UX London 2009
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Date: 15-Jun-09 to 17-Jun-09
City: London, England
UX London is Britain's first major user experience conference,
comprising two days of practical, hands-on workshops, and a day of
inspirational speakers. We have some of the industry's best people on
board, including Don Norman, Peter Merholz, Dan Saffer, LukeW and
Jared Spool, so it's abound to be an amazing event!
<http://uxlondon.com/>
Usability Fundamentals Training Course
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Date: 18-Jun-09 – 19-Jun-09
City: Sydney (Australia)
The training course uses interactive materials and examples to
introduce key concepts of usability. Insight is provided to help you
understand how to convert website visitors into paying customers,
maximising income streams, minimise the likes of Call Centre costs,
and help avoid common design mistakes.
<http://www.usabilityone.com/services/usability-training.php>
Running in-house usability tests (Workshop)
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Date: 19-Jun-09
City: Sydney (Australia)
Empowering you and your staff to run usability tests is a cost
effective approach at gathering valuable insights into your users’
behaviour. Usability Testing is a crucial activity to ensure you
develop successful and usable interfaces. In this workshop you will
learn what is involved to set up and run a usability testing project
from start to finish.
<http://www.usabilityone.com/services/usability-testing-workshop.php>
Carson Workshops
The Whuffie Factor - Using the Power of Social Networks to Build Your
Business - Tara Hunt
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Date: 22-June-09
City: London (UK)
Everyone knows about blogs and social networks such as Facebook and
Twitter. And they've heard about someone who has used them to grow a
huge customer base. Everyone wants to be hands-on, grass roots and
interactive. But what does this mean? And more to the point, how do
you do it?
<http://carsonworkshops.com/2009/tarahunt/index.html>
WE Believe In Community
Date: 20-Aug-09 - 21-Aug-09
City: Sydney (Australia)
A web conference for people working in government and the public
sector. Brought to you by the Local Government Web Network. A full
day conference with a mix of split streams and some awesome plenary
sessions, and a second day of in-depth half day workshops - book
these dates in your diary now if you work on, with, or immerse
yourself in the web in the world of Government and the Public Sector.
Visit: http://conference09.lgwebnetwork.org
UX Australia 2009
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Dates: 25-Aug-09 to 27-Aug-09
City: Canvberra (Australia)
UX Australia 2009 is Australia's premier user experience design
conference, with inspiring and practical presentations, covering a
range of topics about how to design great experiences for people.
<http://www.uxaustralia.com.au/conference-2009>
Carson Workshops
Design Secrets of digg.com's User Interface - Daniel Burka
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Date: 08-Sept-09
City: London (UK)
Web 2.0 is focused on user participation, so how can you promote
interaction on your site? As designers and product people, our focus
is on developing wonderful user experiences where people can come
together to participate in meaningful and useful ways. With social
sites, this is doubly critical as our sites are fundamentally powered
by users interacting with one another. This workshop will focus on
design strategies for lowering the barriers to participation,
adapting to user behavior, promoting positive behaviors, managing
scale, and creating intuitive user experiences.
<http://carsonworkshops.com/2009/danielburka/index.html>
Web Application Design Training Workshop
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Date & city:
24th March – Melbourne (Australia)
7th April – Sydney (Australia)
5th May – Brisbane (Australia)
18th August – Adelaide (Australia)
20th Oct – Canberra (Australia)
Processes and interface design fundamentals for designing usable web
applications - one day course. From internet banking, online
learning, government transactional sites to employee phonebooks,
online projects increasingly include elements of web application
design. This course will explore the value and limitations of
building a web application and introduce a range of tools, approaches
and interface design principles to ensure that you understand your
audience and design intuitive and usable web applications. Includes
usability of Rich Internet Applications and AJAX.
<http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/web-applications.html>
WCAG 2.0 Training New Zealand
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City: Wellington (New Zealand)
Dates:
Thursday 7th May - WCAG v2.0 Priority 1 Checkpoints (Level A)
Thursday 14th May - WCAG v2.0 Priority 2 Checkpoints (Level AA)
Thursday 28th May - WCAG v2.0 Priority 3 Checkpoints (Level AAA)
Thursday 4th June - WCAG v2.0 Priority 1 Checkpoints (Level A)
Thursday 11th June - WCAG v2.0 Priority 2 Checkpoints (Level AA)
Thursday 18th June - WCAG v2.0 Priority 3 Checkpoints (Level AAA)
Version 2.0 of the New Zealand Government Web Standards was released
in March. A major change is adoption of the W3C's WCAG 2.0 standards.
Accessibility expert Bruce Aylward from W3A will run a series of
training courses for web professionals on complying with the WCAG 2.0
standards at a training lab in Wellington. Each course covers one of
the three WCAG 2.0 priority levels and are practical and hands-on. At
the end of each course participants should be able to design for and
determine compliance with the checkpoints of the relevant priority
level of the WCAG 2.0.
<http://www.w3a.co.nz/contact.htm>
Interaction Design Training Workshop
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Date & city:
25th March – Melbourne (Australia)
8th April – Sydney (Australia)
6th May – Brisbane (Australia)
20th May – Perth (Australia)
19th August – Adelaide (Australia)
21st Oct – Canberra (Australia)
Human characteristics and theoretical principles for usable web
applications, intranet and internet sites - one day course. Ever
wonder why users don't behave how you expect? Ever done usability
testing or found usability issues but didn't know how to fix them?
This course will provide an insight into human characteristics and
online behaviour based on latest research and hundreds of usability
tests with users, including video footage of usability test sessions.
We will also cover the theory and principles of interaction design.
<http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/interaction-design.html>
Web Usability Training Course
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Date & city:
10th March –Sydney (Australia)
1st April – Brisbane (Australia)
19th May – Perth (Australia)
16th June – Melbourne (Australia)
28th July – Adelaide (Australia)
1st Dec – Canberra (Australia)
Introduction to User Centred Design tools and techniques. As a result
of attending this one day course, participants will have a good
understanding of the value and importance of user centred design and
have the basic skills, knowledge and tools to apply the user centred
design approach to developing usable Internet sites, Intranet sites
or web applications within their own organisation.
<http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/web-usability.html>
Usability Evaluation & Testing Training Workshop
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Date & city:
11th March – Sydney (Australia)
2nd April – Brisbane (Australia)
21st May – Perth (Australia)
17th June – Melbourne (Australia)
29th July – Adelaide (Australia)
2nd Dec – Canberra (Australia)
Discount evaluation techniques and how to conduct usability tests. In
this one day interactive workshop, learn valuable usability
evaluation and testing methods that you can use to evaluate your
organisation's Internet and Intranet site, web applications and
software. This course will explore the difference between expert
reviews and usability testing and which is better to use and when. We
will cover when to usability test, what to test and how to test.
<http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/evaluation-and-testing.html>
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JOBS
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Job 1
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Freelance -Contract-PHP Programmers -Parramatta - Must have
experience and have portfolio of recent high class work
work from home or our office- extra cash from your day job.
PHP Programmers in Parramatta-PHP website developers Share your
passion with like minded individuals in an energetic and inspiring
office located in Parramatta. see you working within a large team
environment working on large scale and smaller projects.
You will need skills in the following areas:
PHP Programmer required,Lots of work ongoing.
Good rate - parramatta area,No trainees-primadonnas- Must have more
than 2 years experience
- good knowledge of general php
- knowledge of php5 : oriented object
- knowledge of zend framework or other MVC framework
- good knowledge of Javascript
- knowledge of prototyping
- knowledge of scriptaculous
- knowledge of ajax
- HTML - DHTML
- database design
- MySQL
Please send your application to [email protected]
Location Parramatta, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Job 2
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iPhone Application Developer required for savvy web & mobile company;
Windsor location; great team! Must have experience with developing
apps for iphone!
- Small company with big ideas!
- Windsor/Prahran location
- Up to $60K + Super
If you haven’t heard of the Apple iPhone before, you must have been
living under a stone and this is probably not the role for you… BUT,
if you have, and you love them, then read on!
An ambitious plan has been hatched by one of my clients to expand his
iPhone App Development division. My Client has developed two of the
leading Sports Applications for iPhone in Australia and is looking
for a great iPhone App Developer to join their team full time.
You will be able to demonstrate knowledge and experience in the
following:
- Knowledge and experience with the full iPhone SDK
- The iPhone API
- C++
- Objective-C
- PHP and other OO Languages
- Cocoa and other Object-Oriented Application Program environments
- OpenGL
- 2D and 3D Graphics and 3D Programming
- SQL or other Relational Databases
In return you will have:
- A busy working environment with professional, talented Developers
and designers
- Opportunity to work on some of the most exciting large scale mobile
apps in Australia
- Strong leadership and genuine management
Would you like more information? Please contact Georgie directly on
03 8060 9280 or send your resume to [email protected].
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Did I miss an event, resource or job in your city? If you have an
event, resource or relevant job you'd like posted (from any country),
please let me know - [email protected]
Thanks
Russ
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