Category: webdirections

• Opening Titles for Web Directions South 2011 27 October 2011

  See the in-browser opening titles Another year and another great Web Directions. Of course, for me, Web Directions isn't complete without frantic late-night coding sessions in ...

• HTML5 + CSS3 Title Sequence for WDS10 18 October 2010

  See the WDS10 Title Sequence There's nothing that has quite the ability to sharpen one's creative process like a ridiculous deadline. In this case a 72-hour deadline to ...

• Web Directions & Australian Web Week 26 August 2009

  October's a big month for the 4,399,722 residents of Sydney. They're going to be hosting the fourth Web Directions South conference as well as the inaugural Australian Web Week . Web Directions is gradually ...

• Visible Tweets 30 April 2009

  Visible Tweets – A Twitter visualiser for rock concerts I'm not exactly a prolific Twitterer. In fact, I'm even behind Oprah in the updates count. But the beauty of Twitter ...

• JS-909: A drum machine in JavaScript 17 November 2008

  At the recent Web Directions JavaScript libraries panel , I was in charge of representing the hard-working non-library hacker. (Of which there exist approximately two in the wild.) And when it came to the final ...

• Dinosaur vs Banana t-shirt on RedBubble 14 October 2008

  By "popular" demand, my remix of the Web Directions 2008 Cloud vs Bird cartoon is now available as a t-shirt on RedBubble . So, if you've got a pile of cash to burn, why not ...

• Dinosaurs and remixes 10 October 2008

  I'm dropping in a little late, but I was a bit too frantic pre-Web Directions to get a remix done of Carla's cute cartoon . It's a Friday, so I thought I'd relax by drawing a ...

• Workshops and presentations, oh my! 09 October 2008

  Another Web Directions is in the can and – true to form – it was one of the best yet. I had a huge amount of fun giving grief to the other developers on the JavaScript ...

• An abundance of Web Directions news 08 April 2008

  There's so much Web Directions news, I don't know what to do with it all. Well, I'll get the most exciting tidbit off my chest first: I'm taking my Oscar-winning* workshops on the ...

• Future of Web Interfaces Slides 20 February 2008

  Here are the slides (PDF, 69MB) for the presentation I gave at Web Directions South 2007, and updated to present at Web Directions North 2008, minus my dry wit (and stuttering, perplexed forgetfulness). ...

• Hands on gets a thumbs up 26 November 2007

  Last week I did some JavaScript workshops in Perth, and I have to say: it was the most fun I've ever had inside a classroom. (As a teacher or a student.) The normal procedure for ...

• Web Directions South '07 13 October 2007

  Two weeks. I reckon that's enough time to make this the tardiest wrap-up post about Web Directions South '07. Boy, what a conference. I had fears ...

• Upcoming presentations and workshops 03 May 2006

  Just thought I'd let you know of a few speaking dates and workshops that I've got coming up over the next few months. If you're going to be around at any of them feel free to come up and hassle me, I won't bite too ...