I should explain some of the references in that last post.
WIPA is the Web Industry Professional Association, “an organisation that brings Australian Web professionals together to exchange ideas, participate in debate, advance education and promote ethical practice”.
More information will be made available shortly (ie as soon as I write the next newsletter) about WIPA’s upcoming national workshop tour, but I can tell you now that we have secured the services of Bruce Lawson and Steve Faulkner to hold masterclasses in HTML5 and WAI-ARIA with Australian developers and designers according to the following schedule:
- November 23: Sydney
- November 24: Canberra
- November 26: Melbourne
- November 29: Perth (co-hosted by AWIA)
- December 1: Brisbane
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Posted in: developing the web, education, peer to peer.
This is a particularly timely book for me.
It’s quite a different kettle of code to Jeremy Keith’s HTML5 for Web Designers. That book explained how I could confidently starting using HTML5 with my existing and planned web projects.
This book, Introducing HTML5 by Bruce Lawson and Remy Sharp, goes into much greater detail about how much more I can do with HTML5.
Bruce Lawson is a UK web developer who works for Opera, with an impressive understanding of, and commitment to, the open web, standards and accessibility. Bruce is coming to Australia in November to hold a series of workshops on ARIA-HTML5 for WIPA, of which I am the newly elected President (did someone say ‘Steven Bradbury’?).
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Posted in: developing the web, turn the page.
It must be a year ago that I stayed overnight with my brother in Melbourne, and he told me about this book. He made it sound fascinating, and I said I’d make sure to look it up. Naturally, I forgot all about it.
Until a month ago, when @vanderwal mentioned it in a tweet. I follow Thomas Vander Wal on Twitter because he knows more about how information of all kinds is exchanged between people using internet technologies than just about anyone I know. That he’s from a Dutch background is a bonus.
The name of the book rang a bell, I looked it up and ordered a copy from Amazon the same day, 10 days into the World Cup.
It arrived just after the Netherlands beat Slovakia 2-1 to set up a quarter final against Brazil.
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Posted in: ephemera, sport'n'life, turn the page.
