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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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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/2008/01/22/some-links-159/>
A CSS layout that does not rely on DIV, FLOAT, CLEAR nor structural HACK!
http://tjkdesign.com/articles/float-less_css_layouts.asp
CSS Gradient Text Effect
http://www.webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/css-gradient-text-effect/
What makes a good form?
http://formulate.com.au/articles/what-makes-a-good-form/
iTunes Player Hits a High Note, Passes RealPlayer
http://www.websiteoptimization.com/bw/0801/
.aspx considered harmful
http://blog.jonudell.net/2008/01/17/aspx-considered-harmful/
W3C adds a touch of Sparql to Web 2.0
http://www.builderau.com.au/news/soa/W3C-adds-a-touch-of-Sparql-to-Web-2-0-/
0,339028227,339285259,00.htm#
The best Web 2 jQuery javascript plugins
http://www.wiliam.com.au/wiliam-blog/the-best-web-2-jquery-javascript-plugin
s
Cultivate Teens By Catching Their Eyes, New MMC Report Recommends
http://www.mediamanagementcenter.org/blogs/mike/2008/01/cultivate-teens-by-c
atching-their-eyes.html
Revisiting the top 60 Web 2.0 applications in Australia for 2007
http://www.rossdawsonblog.com/top60web2appsinoz.html
NVDA - a free and open source screen reader for Windows
http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/?p=23
Qik
http://qik.com/
Tell the CSS WG what you want from CSS3
http://www.webstandards.org/2008/01/18/tell-the-css-wg-what-you-want-from-cs
s3/
Overcoming blankcanvasphobia
http://cameronmoll.com/archives/2008/01/overcoming_blankcanvasphobia/
Advancing Advanced Search
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/advancing-advanced
Killing Some Bad Layout Conventions
http://www.andyrutledge.com/bad-layout-conventions.php#fragment-3
Personas and the Advantage of Designing for Yourself
http://bokardo.com/archives/personas-and-the-advantage-of-designing-for-your
self/
Beyond DOCTYPE: Web Standards, Forward Compatibility, and IE8
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/beyonddoctype
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WSG AND INDUSTRY EVENTS
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CSS Mastery Workshop
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Date: Thursday, January 24th, 2008
City: Brighton, England
Description: Based on the best selling book of the same name, this
day-long course will provide the essential skills required to take
your CSS to the next level. You will start by learning expert tips to
manage and structure your CSS. Next there will be a quick recap on
the CSS box model and positioning model, covering such hot topics as
margin collapsing and advanced float behaviour. The core of the day
will be spent learning the latest CSS layout techniques, before
moving on to cover the most common browser bugs and their fixes.
URL: http://www.clearleft.com/training/css/20080124/
Bulletproof Ajax Workshop
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Date: Friday, January 25th, 2008
City: Brighton, England
Description: Through a series of lectures and practical examples you
will learn the power of the XMLHttpRequest object and how it can be
used to add advanced interactivity to your website. Using the “Hijax”
concept, you will learn how to create highly flexible applications
using the principle of progressive enhancement.
URL: http://www.clearleft.com/training/ajax/20080125/
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/
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
Canberra WSG meeting
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Date: 31-Jan-08
City: Canberra (Australia)
First speaker: Geoff Dibley, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and
Forestry.
Topic 1: They came, they search, they leave - improving internal site search
for users
Second speaker: Paul Hagon, National Library of Australia
Topic 2: Users aren't as clever as you think they are - search analysis of
Picture Australia
http://webstandardsgroup.org/meetings/index.cfm?event_id=146
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
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
Designing for Web 2.0
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Date: 07-02-08
City: Melbourne (Aus)
Ignore the marketing buzz word in the title, this talk is all about what do
recent changes online REALLY mean for the practicing designer. In
particular, I outline a few important trends then explain their impact on
the visual/interaction design of Web services/products. Namely, the trend
from locomotion to manipulation and conversation (how to deal with crowded
shelf space and purely digital services); the trend from sites to content
experiences (how do we design when search, content aggregators, and display
surfaces rule the Web)...
http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?520
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
A practical introduction to website accessibility
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Date: 20-Feb-08
City: London (UK)
A practical fast track introduction to web accessibility the key issues
and legal and business cases.
http://www.abilitynet.org.uk/webintroaccessibility
Sydney Web Standards Group meeting
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Date: 21-Feb-08
City: Sydney (AUS)
Presentation 1: Damian Hickey - Online Video: A standard document format for
business.
Presentation 2: Ben Buchanan - W3C Standards Are Not Enough
http://webstandardsgroup.org/meetings/index.cfm?event_id=147
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/
Rich media and latest trends in accessibility
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Date: 27-Feb-08
City: London (UK)
An introduction to the key concepts and solutions in making rich media
accessible, including Flash and captioning. A special guest speaker will
give an introduction to AJAX.
http://www.abilitynet.org.uk/webrichmedia
Hidden barriers to web accessibility workshop
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Date: Friday, February 27th, 2008
City: London, England
Description An eye-opening half-day course, to teach website designers,
developers and programmers how to identify and cure some of the most
serious, most common, but least obvious accessibility problems on their
web sites.
URL:
http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/PublicWebsite/publ
ic_hiddenbarriersworkshop.hcsp
Transitioning from WCAG 1.0 to 2.0 workshop
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Date: Friday, February 27th, 2008
City: London, England
Description A half-day course, introducing the forthcoming guidelines
for web accessibility, the Web Accessibility Content Guidelines 2.0
(WCAG 2.0). It includes useful references to key parts of the WCAG 2.0
guideline documentation, explains how these relate to one another and
suggests a workable strategy for progressively incorporating the new
guidelines into your web sites.
URL:
http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/PublicWebsite/publ
ic_transitioning.hcsp
A very practical guide to testing against WCAG1.0 and 2.0
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Date: 05-Mar-08
City: London (UK)
A guide to an effective audit process, covering WCAG 1.0, 2.0 and other key
areas of accessibility.
http://www.abilitynet.org.uk/webpracticaltesting
Intranet masterclass
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City: London
Date: 7-Mar-08
Managing the evolution of intranets, Intranet innovation -- critical success
factors, Establishing effective collaboration, Improving intranet search
http://www.steptwo.com.au/columntwo/archives/002711.html
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/
IA Summit
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Date: 10-Apr-08 to 14-Apr-08
City: Miami, Florida (USA)
The Information Architecture Summit is the premier gathering place for those
interested in information architecture. The 2007 IA Summit attracted over
570 attendees, including beginners, experienced IAs, and people from a range
of related fields.
http://www.iasummit.org/2008/
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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IT Developer/Support - Melbourne
Experienced developer/support person required for a company on a full time
basis. Applicant must have experience with back-end and front-end internet
technologies, specifically PHP, MySQL, Linux and Apache, plus a good
knowledge of XHTML, CSS and W3C compliance.
The work involves maintenance, support, enhancements and development to
purpose-built e-commerce sites, databases and functionality.
Work from home as an independent contractor. Time is flexible though a high
degree of availability is required.
You must be a good communicator, able to work independently, work to 'best
practice', and trouble-shoot.
Send a CV and cover letter to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Job 2
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Work for Atlassian, Australia’s fastest growing software company
Code in comfort on an Aeron chair
What’s your computer preference? A mac or a PC?
24” monitors
No suits or ties required!
RESPONSIBLE FOR:
The design and implementation of software, specializing in the
user-interface of the product.
MAIN ACTIVITIES:
Including but not limited to:
* Collaborate with the usability and design team to define the UI mockups
* Implement page designs in standards-compliant dynamic HTML and CSS
* Implement functionality in JavaScript, Java/JSP and using AJAX
* Work closely with back-end developers
* Writing automated functional tests for the UI
KEY SKILLS:
* Extensive knowledge and experience in HTML, JavaScript, CSS
* Some experience in Java web development
* Experience using AJAX and AJAX toolkits, e.g. YUI, Prototype, etc.
* Proficiency with design tools, such as Photoshop, Illustrator or Fireworks
* Excellent communication skills
Contributing to the broader growth and company culture of Atlassian - we
want you to become part of the team, not 'just another employee'.
If you believe you have what we’re looking for, send an email to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject "About - Jobs - User Interface Developer
(SYD) and attach your resume and cover letter.
For more information on life at Atlassian, please visit our website:
http://www.atlassian.com
Job 2
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Programmer jobs .Net and Php in Sydney “ Much appreciated Geoff & Mike
- .NET Programmers jobs in Sydney
- PHP programmers in Sydney also wanted
- must be experienced in either PHP or .NET
We are an online digital firm who provides creative online IT solutions to
our clients. We are looking for an experienced .NET developer and web
designers to join our On-line Services Team with:
- Strong technical knowledge and experience programming in MSSQLand .NET
technologies or PHP
- Experience and ability to take ownership of tasks and see them through to
completion
- attention to detail with a high regard to deliver quality end products to
customers
The Candidate will be tertiary educated in a related IT stream and will have
the following skill-set/experience:
- At least 3 years .NET (C#.NET,ADO.net, VB.NET, ASP.NET) software
development experience for the online industry
- At least 4 years MySQL and MSSQL DBMS skills
- Solid experience with XHTML, CSS, XSLT and XML
- AJAX model design experience for at least 1 year
Experience with: .NET Applications and MSSQL Databases
- Strong problem solving skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Sound knowledge of programming language logic
- Sound knowledge of the SDLC
- Previous experience within the online web development industry
Responsibilities will include:
- Developing and programming technical solutions for clients,
and delivering these on-time.
- Writing functional and technical specification
- .NET and other Web Development work
- Database design
- Deployment
- Testing / QA
This is a great opportunity to join a great team in a winning environment.
If you feel you are the right candidate for the position please submit your
resume and covering letter. Applications will ONLY be accepted via this link
http://www.sydneyweb.com.au/74,career.html
*** No recruitment agencies please***
Job 3
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News Digital Media is a division of News Limited, developing, supporting and
maintaining a whole suite of sites including, News.com.au, The Australian,
CareerOne, carsguide, TrueLocal, Moshtix and Vogue (For a full list see
<http://www.newsdigitalmedia.com.au/> )
We are looking for 1-to-2 people interested in contract positions as
Experience Architects working alongside our full-time team. The role(s)
are Sydney-based.
Applicants should have the following skills:
- Demonstrated experience of designing major web and other digital
interfaces, with experience in creating and delivering site maps, process
flows, wireframes, interaction specifications and other information
architecture documentation.
- Strong prior experience in working effectively within multidisciplinary
teams.
- Demonstrated experience of designing and conducting different types of
user research studies, including lab-based usability studies, field studies,
and usability inspections (heuristic evaluations or cognitive walkthroughs).
- Excellent analytical ability, especially with regard to observation of
user behaviour.
- Excellent information and interaction design skills.
- Strong oral and written communication skills; can present findings
concisely and effectively.
- Ability to work independently, and effectively prioritize time between
multiple projects.
- Knowledge of or experience with the following:
- Early-stage user research methods such as contextual inquiry, paper
prototyping, card sorting, personas.
- Best practice information architecture principles.
- Working with product teams to ensure that user research findings are
tracked and acted on.
- Design and analysis of experiments or surveys.
- International user research or remote user studies.
- Accessibility and universal design.
- Analysis of web server log data.
- Knowledge of Web design / HTML.
-Eye-tracking
Due to recent immigration changes we are unable to consider
non-Australian residents as candidates for contract positions. If you are
interested can you please send your CV and an idea of your
contract rates 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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