October 23, 2005
by Kay
This is a question that comes up quite regularly for me – when do you code a custom application and when do you use an existing solution, be it an off-the-shelf product or code from an open source project? I’m … Continue reading
October 22, 2005
by Kay
It’s Festival time again… in two weeks, the 2006 Perth International Arts Festival web site will be launched. So right now we’re making (mostly minor) modifications to the system and finishing off the new functionality. And madly trying to finish … Continue reading
October 22, 2005
by Kay
But not necessarily together, as you might assume from the title! An interesting observation from Rob Rohan on the Macromedia MAX conference held last week: There are women at the conference. Almost every developer conference I’ve ever been to has … Continue reading
October 18, 2005
by Kay
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I’m surprised that Jakob Nielsen’s Top Ten Design Mistakes for Web Logs hasn’t stirred much comment in blog circles I frequent. Maybe I frequent the wrong circles! Most of the mistakes are pretty obvious and not very contentious. Most of … Continue reading
October 13, 2005
by Kay
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It struck me that having web standards group meetings is all very well, but really, you are preaching to the converted. Web standards group people are there because they believe in standards and want to learn as much as possible … Continue reading
October 12, 2005
by Kay
Just got back from the ColdFusion User Group WA meeting. This month, we had a real, honest-to-goodness speaker – John Rangi from Industry & Resources here in Perth gave a talk on XPath and demo’d some tools for us. It … Continue reading
October 11, 2005
by Kay
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Like every other geek these days, I just love flickr. And like the old parable about the fax machine, the more people you know who use it, the cooler it becomes. Pre WE05, I had a handful of photos online … Continue reading
October 11, 2005
by Kay
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As well as pulling off a great event that ran smoothly and was thoroughly enjoyed by both attendees and speakers alike, the Web Essentials team have done something special: raised the bar for web conferences forever. Peter, Russ, John & … Continue reading