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Nodebots Sydney 2013 (and the NICTA ED1) 29 Jul 2013 | 05:40 pm
Much as I know the technology is simple, I still think there is something compelling and slightly magical about bridging the digital and physical worlds. So on saturday I joined a crew of slightly bl...
zen and the art of checking it's plugged in 2 Jun 2013 | 05:45 pm
Sometimes bugfixing is a near-zen demonstration of your mad l33t skillz. You stare at the problem for a few seconds, nod sagely and deliver a short flurry of keystrokes. The bug is squashed and the cr...
ARIA (sydjs lightning talk) 24 Mar 2013 | 02:24 pm
Last week I did a five-minute lightning talk about ARIA, at Sydjs. The main point was to illustrate a secondary benefit to using ARIA, beyond the primary purpose of accessibility: taking advantage of ...
wds12, the big stonking post™ 23 Oct 2012 | 04:40 pm
The speaking is done, the blankets packed away to save us from the freezing aircon again next year, drinks consumed and planes have returned our friends to various corners of the globe. (photo by web...
WDS11, the big stonking post™ 17 Oct 2011 | 01:30 am
Welcome to the Web Directions South 2011 Big Stonking Post™, my rough notes hammered out on a laptop (to aid my own recall) and posted here for your enjoyment. The usual notes: These are very raw not...
one script, seven ways 15 Jun 2011 | 12:52 am
It's one thing to write code from scratch, but quite another to edit and improve existing code. It's also quite something to have your code dissected in front of a crowd... Refactoring In its purest...
a website build in thirty seconds 9 Jun 2011 | 12:24 am
Sometimes a simple demo can bring a dry process to life. So what's the story? Back in 2007, I was on the NDM team that rebuilt The Australian and Aus IT websites. As part of the project we did a pr...
the html5 switch 23 Apr 2011 | 01:19 am
Depending on who you talk to, you should have been using HTML5 months, nay years ago; or it's something you might be using in 2022. As usual the truth is somewhere between the glib extremes. There's ...
wds10, the big stonking post™ 5 Nov 2010 | 09:42 am
Roll up roll up roll up, for my Web Directions South 2010 Big Stonking Post™. A yearly wander through my impressions of WDS, hammered into an EEEpc and posted here for your enjoyment. The usual notes...
design pixels aren't frontend pixels 1 Sep 2010 | 03:23 am
Something I've observed is frontenders and designers often sound like they're talking about the same thing, while actually talking about different things. That wouldn't matter so much if the two role...
