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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
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GET CONNECTED - LINKED/FACEBOOKED?
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What to connect with other WSG members?
Linkedin WSG group:
http://www.linkedin.com/groupInvitation?groupID=54560&sharedKey=13D0DC45E3AF
Facebook WSG group:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2410228768
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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/2008/06/25/some-links-181/>
hAccessibility redux?
http://www.webstandards.org/2008/06/23/haccessibility-redux/
Removing Microformats from bbc.co.uk/programmes
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2008/06/removing_microformats_from_bbc.
shtml
The Touch Barrier - Accessibility and usability issues around touch
technologies
http://lifekludger.net/2008/06/14/the-touch-barrier-accessibility-and-usabil
ity-issues-around-touch-technologies/
On A Scale of 1 to 5
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/on-a-scale-of-1-to-5
CSS Editors Reviewed
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/06/19/css-editors-reviewed/
Breaking Out of the Box With CSS Layouts
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/breaking-out-of-the-box
Nifty Navigation Tricks Using CSS
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/navigation-using-css
The point of ³Open² in OpenID
http://simonwillison.net/2008/Jun/24/openid/
html vs css pt2/navigation lists
http://www.onderhond.com/blog/work/html-vs-css-pt2-navigation-lists
10 Measures for Continuous Website Maintenance
http://meiert.com/en/blog/20080624/continuous-website-maintenance/
Social Design Patterns for Reputation Systems: An Interview with Yahoo¹s
Bryce Glass (Part I)
http://bokardo.com/archives/social-design-patterns-for-reputation-systems-on
e/
A Semantic List-Based CSS Calendar
http://www.cssnewbie.com/list-based-css-calendar/
Interaction Design: It's All About the Subtleties
http://www.uie.com/articles/subtle_interaction_design/
We're all ops people now
http://times.usefulinc.com/2008/06/16-ops-now
Melpedia
http://www.melpedia.com.au/wiki/Main_Page
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WSG AND INDUSTRY EVENTS
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Ruby Melbourne Meetup
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Date: 26-Jun-08
City: Sydney (Australia)
Thoughtworks, Level 11, 155 Queen St, Melbourne 3000
Sydney PHP Group monthly meeting
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Date: 03-Jul-08
City: Sydney (Australia)
The Sydney PHP Group meets every first Thursday of the month, with the
exception of January (holidays).
sydphp.org
Garr Reynold's Presentation Zen
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Date: 04-Jul-08
City: Sydney (Australia)
Presentation Zen (www.presentationzen.com) is the legendary blog
on creating and delivering remarkable presentations. Garr Reynold's
recent book of the same name is now a best-seller, and is being
translated into seven languages. When we found out he was coming to Sydney
for a holiday, we talked him into giving a public presentation. This will be
on 4th of July, and will be the only chance to see him in action in
Australia. Read about the event on Slideshare:
http://www.slideshare.net/jamesr/presentation-zen-comes-to-sydney
Usability week 2008
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Date: 21-Jul-08 to 26-Jul-08
City: Melbourne (Australia)
http://www.nngroup.com/events/melbourne/agenda.html
Web Usability Training Workshop
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Date: 22-Jul-08
City: Sydney (Australia)
Description: 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.
URL: http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/web-usability.html
Usability Evaluation & Testing Training Workshop
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Date: 23-Jul-08 Sydney (Australia)
Description: 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.
URL: http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/evaluation-and-testing.html
Interaction Design Training Workshop
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Date: 29-May-08 Brisbane (Australia)
Date: 2-July-08 Canberra (Australia)
Date: 10-Sep-08 Melbourne (Australia)
Description: Human characteristics and theoretical principles for usable web
applications, intranet and internet sites. 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.
URL: http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/interaction-design.html
Web Application Design Training Workshop
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Date: 28-May-08 Brisbane (Australia)
Date: 1-July-08 Canberra (Australia)
Date: 9-Sep-08 Melbourne (Australia)
Processes and interface design fundamentals for designing usable web
applications. 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.
URL: http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/web-applications.html
dConstruct 2008 (Brighton, UK)
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Date: 5-Sep-08
City: Brighton (UK)
The hottest ticket in the web design calendar is back for it's fourth
instalment. This year dConstruct will see speakers such as Steven
Johnson, Daniel Burka, Joshua Porter and Jeremy Keith talk about
"Designing the Social Web." Tickets go on sale at 11am BST on the
24th June and usually sell out within a day, so stick a note in your
diary today.
http://2008.dconstruct.org/
Web Directions South 2008
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Date: 25-Sep-08 to 26-Sep-08
City: Sydney (Australia)
This year in over 30 sessions across 3 tracks and 2 days, plus another 2
days of workshops, we cover off front and back end design and development,
mobile design and development, information architecture, user experience and
interaction design, social media and networks, accessibility, Ajax and
Javascript, semantic web, RIAs, web application security, marketing and
advertising online and so much more. With speakers including:
* Jeffrey Veen - renowned UX expert from Wired, Adaptive Path, Google
* Derek Featherstone - leading accessibility expert
* Daniel Burka - interaction designer for Digg
* Jina Bolton - The Art and Science of CSS
* Douglas Crockford - Ajax security expert at Yahoo!, and the world's
leading JavaScript authority
* Jeff Croft - web design and typography guru
* Lynne D Johnson - Senior Editor and Community Director at FastCompany
http://south08.webdirections.org/
Singularity Web Conference
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Date: 24-Oct-08 to 26-Oct-08
City: everywhere
Singularity is the first large-scale online web conference in the world.
On October 24-26, join 100 of the world¹s top web visionaries, developers,
designers, thought leaders, and celebrities for three days of talks at this
seminal web event.
Attend from home or from a real-world local conference hub near you. Catch
up with old friends (you can find them from your existing social networks)
and meet new ones. And you don¹t even have to take time off work.
http://singularity08.com/
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JOBS
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Job 1
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HTML/CSS Developer Freelance
1 2 week contract starting early July
- Convenient Surry Hills location
- Attractive hourly rate
Reactive Media (www.reactive.com) is one of Australia¹s leading Web design
and development firms currently celebrating our tenth year of business.
We¹re looking for a freelance HTML/CSS developer to work on a 1 2 week
contract.
The role would suit someone who enjoys working in a team environment, is a
great multi-tasker, loves creating compliant, tableless CSS and is a
stickler for accessibility and best practice user interaction.
We¹re looking for someone with:
- excellent HTML skills
- excellent standards based XHTML
- excellent Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) skills
- mobile cross browser development
- familiar with creation of unit tests for code components
- familiar with use of Patterns & Practices¹ assets
- basic or advanced ASP.NET skills
- basic or advanced C# skills
For further information please contact Carl Panczak on (02) 9339 1001 or
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Job 2
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WANTED: Front-end ninja!
99designs is growing fast. We are currently hunting down a front-end
ninja to swiftly craft slick user interfaces for 99designs.com. If you
live for XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript and are passionate about the visual
side of web development we want to hear from you.
Salary commensurate with ³wow factor². This job is based out of
Melbourne Australia, but we will consider you if you can relocate at a
moments notice and your work knocks our socks off
To apply for this job search for ³99designs² on seek.com.au, or click
here: http://tinyurl.com/5ms2or
Job 3
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A leading financial institution requires a Guru Front End Web Developer to
write HTML/CSS/JavaScript/AJAX frameworks and build web interfaces on the
bank¹s Finest Online project. The Finest Online project will pull together
all of the bank¹s enterprise web sites, so the web traffic will be enormous.
You must be an absolute guru in web technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript and
AJAX techniques and worked on some of the most well known websites in the
country.
Please contact Debbie Sztor at Sirius Technology on
[EMAIL PROTECTED] for further information.
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Thanks
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