Category Archives: web standards

Ideas4 - Done and Dusted

Feb
5
2008

Well a little over a week ago AWIA pulled off another event miracle, Ideas4. It organised an evening seminar for the local web industry in little under 2 weeks. As usual it all came together nicely on the night with over 100 people attending and even a special blow-in guest from the US, who just happened to be in town.

Jordan Brock kindly videoed the two talks presented by Lisa and Rachel, encoded and uploaded them to Vimeo.

Rachel Cook, despite being 8 month pregnant, amused us all with tales of Silicon Valley and web 2.0 startups.

Round One - We Blinked and the Corporate Sector Won

Jan
24
2008

Sewage Pump

It’s been a few days now since the release by Chris Wilson on the official Internet Explorer Blog and the subsequent follow up by Eric Meyer and Aaron Gustafson (as requested) showing support for and explaining in detail the introduction of the X-UA-Compatible Meta switch. Now the post to read here is the Microsoft one. That is primary to the whole deal, it explains somewhat why this was done.

Ideas 4 - Accessibility, Usability and Web Startups

Jan
19
2008

ideas4

Way back when there was Ideas 1, 2 and 3. Well this year to kick of 2008 the WA chapter of the Australian Web Industry Association is presenting Ideas 4.Stepping up at Ideas 4 will be two leading Australian speakers Lisa Herrod, (Sydney sider) webjam organiser web usability and accessibility guru and Rachel Cook, (local Perthite) Founder of Minti and serial entrepreneur (hmm that sounds dangerous).

There is also a bit of a rumour that maybe just maybe there maybe an special international guest as well, you’ll just have to come along to find out won’t you.

Why are we Working in the Web Industry?

Dec
27
2007

Getting off the Endless Carnival Ride

At this time of year we all get a few days to get off endless carnival ride of our industry, this allows us time to reflect. Or simply unwind and contemplate the old navel lint. It’s at times like this you ask yourself why you really got into the Web Industry in the first place.

Now I’m not talking about because you need to provide or earn a little cash for yourself and your nearest and dearest.  No I’m going beyond the material domain. We all have to earn a living in one shape or another, so let’s just put that aside.