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On Monday this week, IBM flew me to the Australian Open for a day at the tennis and a behind the scenes view of the technology they provide to this and other events in their role as the key technology provider. It was all done under the aegis of my being [...]

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The (un)organisers of BarCamp Sydney have let me know that they are preparing for yet another festival of creativity to engage and excite the Australian tech and innovation community. Details below.
Date: 15 November 2008
Venue: UNSW Roundhouse
Time: 9:00AM-5:00PMpm (registration starts at 8:30AM)
Register: Do it yourself on the wiki
If you’ve never been to a BarCamp before, I [...]

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Yay, Dutch lawmakers!
While this post over at Quirksmode notes that a new Dutch law requires websites to be accessible (which isn’t new news in many jurisdictions including the USA and Australia), what it does do that is new is stipulate what it takes for that accessibility to be met:

valid HTML 4.01 or XHTML 1.0
CSS and [...]

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README – Getting Real

November 1, 2006

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Serendipity is a curious thing… I picked up the PDF version of 37signals‘ Getting Real over the weekend, after I did some investigation of their hosted apps (Basecamp, Backpack, etc.) for acidlabs. At almost the same time, Lifehack and then LifeClever published links to the free, online version of the book.

If you’re a software [...]

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The Web Developer’s Handbook. Too much information… Brain full… Augh!

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A week or so ago (?) there was a post on digg, or Slashdot, or mezzoblue, or somewhere discussing the best tools for web developers. The post focussed on a key set of Firefox extensions, but if I recall correctly, also branched out into some desktop apps as well. They may have all [...]

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Why web standards DON’T suck

April 10, 2006

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While this story is far from new, nearly three years old as I write, in fact, if this can’t convince you – or your clients, perhaps more importantly – that web (re)development using recognised and proven web standards is a worthwhile, then there’s no way you’ll ever be convinced. Even today, I find significant [...]

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It’s all in the numbers

December 8, 2005

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This year has been about the numbers. Really. There are some fascinating places out there on the Web whose very existence revolves around the numbers they have in their names. Here are my “four of the best”:

9rules – more or less an aggregator of quality blog content on a huge range of [...]

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Sweet Color Schemer

November 21, 2005

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If, like me, you have no concept of web design, nor of how to come up with a decent color scheme for your site (let alone the design, which is a whole other story…), this little wonder will save your ass very nicely! And it’ll export your color scheme as a Adobe Photoshop .act, [...]

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