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June, 2007 archive

FullCodePress selection panels

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

We’re are pleased to announce the three selection panel for FullCodePress:

New Zealand team selection panel
Australian team selection panel
Non-profit organisation selection panel

Looking forward to 18 August 2007!

Registration now closed for FullCodePress teams and organisations

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

Registration for the Australian and New Zealand FullCodePress teams has now closed. We’ve had over 100 registrations for both teams, and the quality of those applying has been great. It’s going to a hard choice for the selection panels to shortlist each position, before the final draw.
A short list of finalists for both teams will […]

Lachlan Hunt - leaving Sydney to work for Opera

Friday, June 29th, 2007

After much rumour and speculation, Sydney-based Lachlan Hunt is heading off to work for Opera in Oslo, as a Core Technology Tester. The word on the street is that Lachlan’s dance video won him the job. Congratulations Lachlan, and good luck!

Some links for light reading (26/6/07)

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

Behind the Scenes: What is the CSS Working Group doing?
Business case for Web standards Wiki
The State of Proxy Caching
Shifting back
Typography and Web Advertising: Making Every Opportunity Count
Testability Costs Too Much
Human-to-Human Design
E-shop accessibility: from theory to reality
Making the most of links
JavaScript Progressive Enhancement in Practice
Common Pitfalls of Building Social Web Applications and How to Avoid […]

Remix 2007 - Melbourne

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

I’ve just come back from Microsoft Remix 2007. I couldn’t attend much of the two day event due to other commitments, but it seemed to be very well run and there was a great deal of energy from the participants.
I presented “Modular CSS - A system that allows you to hide and show CSS rules […]

FullCodePress - three days to go!

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

A reminder that you can still register to take part in FullCodePress. Registrations close on 29/6/07 (only 3 days left!).
You can take part in the following ways:

Register for the Australian team
Register for the New Zealand team
Register your non-profit organisation
Volunteers needed!
Register as a Country organizer - outside Australia and New Zealand

Reno workshops over

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

Roger Hudson and I are back from Reno after running a series of Accessibility and CSS courses at the University of Nevada.
A huge thank you to George, Cathy and JJ from the Research & Educational Planning Center for inviting us over and showing us around Reno during the week.
Feedback from participants included:
This was the most […]

Google - premier sponsor of FullCodePress

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

FullCodePress is very pleased to be able to announce Google as the premier sponsor for the first FullCodePress event in August.
We’re absolutely delighted to have them on board, and know that Google’s support will help make FullCodePress as great as we’ve envisaged.
And as always, the real winner will be the organisation which gets a […]

Some links for light reading (20/6/07)

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

HTML5 differences from HTML4
A JavaScript Module Pattern
Web Accessibility Guidelines - an Interview with Gian Sampson-Wild
Frameworks for Designers
You Are Not a Robot
Ajax rain
The Best Online Research Apps/Sites You’ve Never Heard Of
Pre-release of the ECMAScript 4 reference implementation
How to Choose an eCommerce Package
Squiggles help find personas
Delay loading your print CSS
New Digital Signature Services (DSS) OASIS Standard […]

Off to University of Nevada, Reno

Saturday, June 16th, 2007

Roger Hudson and I are off to Reno for a week to run a series of Accessibility and CSS courses at the University of Nevada. It looks like we’ll be there just in time for the Reno Rodeo.