Now that Apple has made it possible to create Safari Extensions I’ve been looking for some useful ones. After searching the Web a bit and browsing Apple’s Safari Extensions Gallery, these are the ones I have installed:
AdBlock for Safari: Blocks ads (and prevents ad code from being downloaded)
Type-To-Navigate: Lets you highlight and follow links without taking your hands off the keyboard. Type any text that occurs inside a link and then hit return to follow the link.
BetterSource: View source (original or generated) with syntax highlighting and line numbers.
ClickToFlash: Replaces all Flash objects with a placeholder, letting you decide if and when to view Flash content.
Resizer: Lets you specify and quickly switch between a number of preset window sizes and their on-screen positions. Great for getting your preferred window size back after you’ve had to make your browser window wider to accommodate an over-wide site.
Safari Validator: Like the HTML Validator extension for Firefox, Safari Validator performs local HTML validation inside the browser. Note: I haven’t been able to get it to actually work, but it is so useful that I’m mentioning it anyway.
I caught a disease from social media and I don’t know if it’s “tweetable� by modern medicine. I am fully vested in all the important social sites; LinkedIn for business, Facebook for friends, old business coworkers and a few “must know� people registered for the big time waster. I even have a fan page. I have a couple of blogs, write for some blogs that aren’t mine, I tweet, I Plaxo, Spock and other social sites I’ve long since deleted the bookmarks. I was one of the first people to discover social media. Not a pat on the back – just a testament to my ability to keep my sanity.
In speaking to some design students, answering how I got started in the business, I told them I slept my way to the top. They didn’t fall for it but they stood silent for a good, long time. As I laughed and explained how I got started in the days before the internet, dodging velociraptors and flowing hot lava, I quickly realized they had no idea of traditional marketing techniques.
They weren’t tied to business sites as of yet, but in going over the wealth of free exposure one can easily use these days, it struck me about how I forked over thousands of dollars to source books and directories, waiting a year for them to be distributed to art directors and other practitioners during those dark days of the Inquisition. Sending postcard mailers was also the norm and art directors routinely threw away dozens each day, as opposed to now, when art directors call me and relay that I’m the only one who sends cards and they adorn their bulletin boards. How times have changed.
When I started sending e-advertisements in 1993, simple jpegs and animated gifs attached to regular e-mails, people went nuts! When I was asked what it cost, I would reply, “not a penny.� They were blown away at the possibilities. Shows you how far we have come in just a few years.
But, I always knew it was important to keep up with the cutting edge of technology and think I lost it when I got too comfortable with the ease and availability of the interface tools out there on social media sites. Drag and drop, point and click, drool a little less, etc. It’s like the guys on the bridge of the Enterprise (Star Trek) and their rapid-fire button pushing to program the computer to go forward. In reality, in the future, there will be a go and stop button with a simple joystick. Our machinery is getting smarter than we are. Just in time!
He/She Who Has the Most Friends Wins!
So, from my early days on the now ridiculous MySpace, being member number 46,384, fighting flame wars with others who suddenly had worldwide voice and safety behind the keyboard, to emailing my department at work to tell them of something called “LinkedIn,� and finding many old, dear friends on Facebook…then deleting them, I have seen my share of the joy and the horror. Social media is a jungle and this, is your commando training!
MySpace
Some people believe it is still relevant but who knows because the member counter doesn’t count people who have given up. There are 329 people active on MySpace.
Cost: free (they can’t give it away. At least Rupert Murdock lost or didn’t make billions on it). Dirty Secret: I was the one who started the web rumor that Tom was dead and his family was suing for the pain of being reminded of him every time there was a post from “Tom.�
Facebook
I can’t fault the ability to reconnect with people from my past, as well as filling my future with new friends. Sure, things got a little heated with posts during the 2008 election, but it will never happen again for another two years…less. Yay!
If I’m invited to join someone’s mob or hear about their farm one more time, I’m burying their mob on the farm and then burning it to the ground. Watch the clubs, games, and other third party applications and set your privacy to “friends.� There’s no “just psychos� option except for choosing “public.�
Facebook, like all sites have odd rules on privacy, which often has FB in the news. The ownership of work uploaded is something every creative must consider. Otherwise, I was sucked in and my fan page is doing well, so I have few complaints outside an election year.
Cost: despite tons of threatening spam and the morons who quickly panic and post it on their profiles, it is – FREE! They make their money in the slave and drug trade.
Dirty secret: despite the constant announcements that you have the option of privacy, FB keeps spewing your personal information all over the net while using pictures of your significant other for sleazy dating site ads… and that’s the GOOD part! Every time you give a third party permission to access your account and that of your friends, a flood of addresses, phone numbers and emails get sucked into cyber space. Kim Jong Il may be trying to date your girlfriend online and he has her cell number!
LinkedIn
The number one business network on the net with rules drafted by Evita Peron and Orwellian compliance by Big Brother. There are many twists and turns with this site. Another great site for finding long lost friends and colleagues, making new friends and finding the worst characters the business world has yet to scrape from the bottom of its digital shoe.
There is a function on LI where you can ask a question on anything business and answer other people’s questions. Experts say that joining groups and the discussions on those groups, or answering questions is good for visibility. I have visibility and want to get rid of it.
For a while, I listed myself as a “LION� (LinkedIn Open Networker). By the rules, I was bound to accept every invitation I received. My connection list grew, as did my spam via LI. It was fairly easy to edit my LION status out and weed out the spammers but the visibility on groups and answers brought weekly “opportunities� that involved me doing free work with logic such as:
1. “There will be lots of money later, when the company is successful.�
2. “This is an opportunity to get in on a great company� and will, “be the ‘main guy’ when the company’s rolling.�
3. I “should be helping a fellow LinkedIn member� because “we are all here for business and to help each other.�
4.  They “don’t have much money.�
5.  They will “get an art student to do it if (I) turn down the great opportunity (they) are handing (me).�
6.  Could I “suggest someone on LinkedIn who would do the work?”
7.  I’m “not being helpful.�
8.  They never received the emails discussing fees but why aren’t I finished?
9.  “It’ll be exposure for (my) work.” I point them to my profile and they agree it was my global experience that caught their attention.
10. Â They are related to me.
Being out there has its drawbacks and visibility is one of them.
One of my pet peeves on LinkedIn is the default invitation.
Speider,
I’d like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.
If we were at a networking event and you threw a card at me while you walked by and yelled, “HERE!� chances are I would let it bounce off me and fall to the ground or pretend I was wiping my ass with it so people would laugh as you walked away. Seriously, even online, professional is professional. Manners are of the utmost importance.
Cost: Free but can pay to upgrade to a level that allows you to message other members and loosely see who’s viewed your profile, so it’s really worth nothing at all.
Dirty secret: they are complete tyrants about other people turning you in for the odd rules infractions and the kill button on each and every post and line in your profile. It’s a great way to turn in your neighbor anonymously and get them banned until they can convince customer service to unfreeze your account, not that any human would lie and be vicious. It takes forever unless you are on it right away and become persistent. It works faster if you are a paying member.
Twitter
Be on it so you don’t seem lame but only post a maximum of once a day and try to make it something of interest. Beyond that, anything under 90,000 followers is just bottom feeding.
Cost: free. Sure…try charging to do pointless posting. Dirty secret: it has so many. Where to start?
WordPress, Blogger, Ning and the Rest of Blogdom.
Thanks to free blogs, every nutcase in the universe has the ability to discredit any politician, law, and disaster or put up the cutest kitten picture you have ever seen! Beyond that, the 32 million Star Wars fan blogs must be destroyed.
Cost: your immortal soul. Dirty secret: they are the tool of demonic phishers and spammers.
Plaxo, Spock and other “business sites.”
Forget them. If there’s a specific site for your profession you might want to join it but what will you do aside from do that fake Hollywood Oscars kissing up or fight with other people. It’s worse than art school.
Cost: free but who cares. Some cost, but nobody joins. Dirty secret: they are just taking up precious bandwidth.
Google
Where do I start? It’s like a street gang. You’re going to get sucked in and keep spending money on drugs…apps…drugs and you can never escape.
Cost: Oh, you bet and once you’re hooked, they just keep raising the cost of the drugs… service. Dirty secret: the bodies will be found one day. Until then, Google employees, enjoy the pool and ping-pong and gourmet coffee and chip implants and the halfwit clones of you that are growing in the basement and will one day replace you for 10¢ on the dollar.
Like an Internet Dating Site, People Are Not Who They Say They Are
People list themselves as Vice President of a company and you find out they were fired six years ago. So much for trying to cozy up to them for some work thrown your way. Your date is 40 years older than her photo…and she’s a guy. Your new Facebook friend is a registered sex offender.
The web moves fast and our brains cannot process the information quickly or thoroughly. We are pulled into an unnatural multitasking and inability to focus on peripheral tasks. Matt Richtel writes in a New York Times article,
“scientists are discovering that even after the multitasking ends, fractured thinking and lack of focus persist. In other words, this is also your brain off computers.�
If I had any advice, I would say to be everywhere you can keep up with updating the information so nothing gets stale. Caveat emptor where work and money are concerned, watch your connections for odd offers of requests and don’t forget that clients and friends are real and sometimes they need a real birthday card or letter or a call or even a heartfelt message. We are so driven to put our lives out to those faceless people in cyber space, we tend to forget those around is in our lives. And don’t forget to tie your cell phone into every social media outlet because that’s just smart business.
At the end of last year, we published a comprehensive list of web design and development conferences that might be of interest to Smashing Magazine’s diverse readership. Many readers commented and added links to other conferences and events that weren’t listed, some of which were added to the post. Using the contents of that list along with some other sources, we’ve compiled a list of web design and development-related conferences and events that will be taking place in the next six to eight months.
As always, there is no way for us to be able to include every possible event here, but we’ll be glad to update the list if you provide a comment to an upcoming event that you feel would be of interest to graphic designers or web developers.
While the previous roundup was organized by category, this one lists the events in chronological order starting with the earliest. Jump to an appropriate month using the links below:
FITC Mobile 2010 FITC Mobile covers all aspects of mobile content development — with presentations, demonstrations, and panel discussions. Covering iPhone/iPad, Android, Flash 10.1, Windows Mobile, HTML5, Unity, Marketing, Usability, and other relevant topics in the mobile world.
When: September 16-18, 2010 Where: Toronto, ON, Canada at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre
An Event Apart D.C. “From the makers of A List Apart, An Event Apart is an intensely educational two-day conference for passionate practitioners of standards-based web design. If you care about code as well as content, usability as well as design, An Event Apart is the conference you’ve been waiting for.”
When: September 16-18, 2010 Where: Washington, D.C., USA at the Washington Hilton
London Design Festival “The London Design Festival is a nine-day celebration of design in the world’s creative capital. The Festival is a platform for the widest spectrum of design disciplines, brought together as a unique and accessible programme.”
When: September 18-26, 2010 Where: London, UK at a number of different venues across the city
MOBILE 2.0 “The MOBILE 2.0 Conference is a two-day event focusing on new Mobile Applications and Services, Mobile Ecosystems, and Disruptive Mobile Innovation presented by the Mobile 2.0 Organizing Committee. For Mobile Developers we have designed an entire day for you to hear about the latest developer tools and monetization techniques.”
When: September 20-21, 2010 Where: Silicon Valley, CA, USA at the Grand Hyatt & the Microsoft Silicon Valley Conference Center
Design For Mobile 2010 “Design For Mobile (D4M) is a multi-faceted conference aimed at engaging the mobile community in a shared discussion about the future of mobile and ‘the mobile now.’ This is a conference focused on strategy and tactics for user research, product definition, usability testing, interaction and design. D4M is comprised of both preliminary and advanced workshops that flank three full days of speakers and interactive sessions.”
When: September 20-24, 2010 Where: Evanston, IL, U.S.A at The Hilton Orrington
Web Directions USA “CSS3, HTML5, Geolocation, mobile web — we’re seeing an explosion of innovation in design and development unlike at almost any other time in the web’s history. To keep you ahead of the curve, Web Directions USA features leading web practitioners, bringing you the freshest technologies, techniques and know-how.”
When: September 21-25, 2010 Where: Atlanta, Georgia, USA at the Loews Atlanta Hotel
National Association of Government Webmasters Conference “The NAGW National Conference is the premier conference that focuses on local, state and regional government web professionals. Local, regional, state and federal government web professionals join their peers at the conference for two and a half days of education, training and networking in a relaxed professional environment.”
When: September 22-24, 2010 Where: St. Louis, MO, USA at the Millennium Hotel
European Information Architecture Summit “A summit for anyone concerned with the design of navigation, organization, labeling, and search systems that help people find and manage information more successfully.”
When: September 23-25, 2010 Where: Paris, France at Les Salons de l’Aveyron
Flash on the Beach “Don’t think that Flash on the Beach is only about Flash. Sure appearing at FOTB in the past we have had the usual suspects — Flash, Flex, AIR, and then some. Open Frameworks, Processing, AJAX, Photoshop, After Effects, Art, Design, Illustration, Animation, Sound and many more. Whether you are a tech-head or a creative, if you are a decision maker or a team manager, if you are in need of a fix of creative inspiration, or want to know the latest how-to’s, Flash on the Beach is where you’ll get it.”
When: September 26-29, 2010 Where: Brighton, UK at the Brighton Dome
BlackBerry® Developer Conference “The BlackBerry® Developer Conference is a premier showcase for what can be done with BlackBerry apps, attended by thousands of the world’s most enthusiastic developers, BlackBerry experts, and Research In Motion® (RIM®) partners. It’s the place to get technical, code-driven information that can be applied to projects; the place where new tools and technologies can be experienced for the first time; the place for getting your questions answered, or finding the inspiration to go further with mobile applications than you ever imagined possible.”
When: September 27-30, 2010 Where: San Francisco, CA, USA at the Marriot Marquis
The ExpressionEngine and CodeIgniter Conference “At the ExpressionEngine & CodeIgniter Conference you can meet the experts, be inspired and break new boundaries! This event brings you presentations and workshops from your favorite EE & CI speakers. Both beginners and experienced users will benefit from a variety of topics and sessions: discover how your favourite content management system and PHP framework can bend even further!”
When: September 29 – October 1, 2010 Where: Leiden, The Netherleands at De Stadsgehoorzaal theatre
Forward – Phoenix Design Week 2010 “The beauty of Phoenix Design Week is that it enables us to put Phoenix design on a pedestal. Throughout Design Week, there are many ways this is being executed, but one of the coolest ways we manifest this goal is by giving you options to showcase your own creative prowess.”
When: September 29 – October 3, 2010 Where: Phoenix, AZ, USA at the Phoenix Convention Center plus other locations
IDEA Conference “IDEA2010 is a design conference tailored for you. This year’s unique mix of traditional presentations with structured activity time assures that you’ll get high-level concepts from big thinkers, and the space to apply them with peers.”
When: September 30 – October 2, 2010 Where: Philadelphia, PA, USA at the Independence Seaport Museum
October 2010 Events
A Better World by Design Conference “A Better World by Design is a three-day internationally acclaimed conference in Providence, RI that connects students, professionals, and individuals from a variety of disciplines in order to build a global community of socially conscious and passionate innovators. Presenters share engaging stories, workshops teach creative skills, and discussions reframe perspectives.”
When: October 1-3, 2010 Where: Providence, RI, U.S.A at Brown University & RISD Campuses
Future of Web Apps “The Future of Web Apps is a conference for web developers and entrepreneurs. You’ll learn about cutting-edge tech and exciting new ideas.”
When: October 4-6, 2010 Where: London, UK at The Brewery
Fronteers “Founded in 2007, Fronteers is the non-profit trade organization of Dutch front-end developers. Its goals include the professionalisation of our trade, (improved) recognition of the front-end discipline, and improving the position of Dutch front-end developers in their company and the web design/development world in general.”
DesignPhiladelphia “Through its events and programming, DesignPhiladelphia showcases the role that design has played historically in Philadelphia, and celebrates the city’s contemporary significance as a center for creative advancement. Through the breadth of our events, DesignPhiladelphia unites the creative disciplines – from architecture to interior design, fashion to product design, multi-media to graphic design.”
When: October 7-17, 2010 Where: Philadelphia, PA, USA at various locations
5D|10 The Future of Immersive Design Conference “5D | The Future of Immersive Design is the visionary, international conference for all designers, practitioners and students working in the fields of narrative media.”
When: October 8-9, 2010 Where: Long Beach, CA, USA at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center
International PHP Conference “With its mixture of topics the International PHP Conference provides an ideal resource for all professionals and their successful daily routine within the whole PHP spectrum. Insights into current Web 2.0 technologies, Security, Best Practices for tools and components, Enterprise know-how, databases, architectures and more are presented at the International PHP Conference 2009.”
When: October 11-13, 2010 Where: Mainz, Germany at the Rheingoldhalle
Web Directions South “Featuring leading web practitioners from across the world, bringing you the freshest technologies, techniques and know-how in web design and development, along with numerous networking and social opportunities. If you work on the web, Web Directions South is the industry event of the year.”
When: October 12-16, 2010 Where: Sydney, Australia at the Sydney Convention and Exhi bition Centre
AIGA Gain “The premier biennial event for business and design leaders. Attendees will learn how industry leaders addressed business challenges through design—and how they reinvented their businesses, their strategies and even themselves. We’ll hear business, design and thought leaders share their innovative approaches to generating greater return on investment, fostering emotional connections and providing positive brand experiences for customers.”
When: October 14-16, 2010 Where: New York City, NY, USA at The Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers
Voices That Matter iPhone Developers Conference “You’ll acquire skills for mastering iOS development from leading authors and experts during a weekend of strong educational sessions. Our speakers are eager to share their knowledge, answer your questions and address your application needs. You’ll participate in interactive discussions that provide the perfect environment for an unbiased and effective learning experience. This engaging two-day conference features how-to sessions covering the latest, most intriguing news in application development for the iPhone and iPad.”
When: October 16-17, 2010 Where: Philadelphia, PA, USA at The Hub Cira Centre
jQuery Conference “The annual conference of jQuery users and developers. There will be talks on jQuery, jQuery UI, plugins, complex application development, and more — all from the top jQuery developers. Speakers include John Resig, Paul Irish, Karl Swedberg, Doug Neiner, and more.”
When: October 16-17, 2010 Where: Boston, MA, U.S.A at the Hilton at Boston Logan Airport
Web Design World “These are interesting times: a combination of technical innovation, audience growth, and crummy economy. As a web designer, you can’t escape any of the three. But you can learn how to keep up with the innovation, take advantage of the growth, and survive the downturn. That’s where we come in. We take our mantra — provide practical, no-fluff, how-to — very seriously. If you’ve joined us before, you know that. If you haven’t, please check us out.”
When: October 18-20, 2010 Where: Las Vegas, NV, USA at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino
Do-It-Yourself Usability Testing: The Workshop “The workshop will include: A complete explanation of how I recommend doing testing (Hint: very simple, very fast, and very cheap); Two live usability tests on attendees’ sites, so you can see the whole process in detail; A chance to practice conducting a test on your own site; Advice on how to interpret your findings and decide what changes to make; Plenty of time to answer your questions about testing or any other aspect of usability.”
When: October 20, 2010 Where: Washington, DC, U.S.A
Front-Trends Conference “This is a gathering for front-end lovers and professionals to discover the current trends and tools to build a professional career out of innovative front-end development.”
When: October 21-22, 2010 Where: Warsaw, Poland at the Centrum konferencyjno – kongresowe
Brooklyn Beta “Brooklyn Beta is a collaboration between Analog and Fictive Kin. Our goal for the conference is to inspire you to ‘make your own stuff.’ We’d love to see what the Web would be like if all you talented web people started using your magical abilities to bring your own ideas to life. To help, we’ve put together a conference aimed at turning inspiration into action with talented folks from every web field attending. We want to get all the people who can turn an idea into reality in one place and see what happens.”
When: October 21-22, 2010 Where: Brooklyn, NY, USA at the Invisible Dog
ExpressionEngineCamp “ExpressionEngine Camp is a collaborative all-day workshop about ExpressionEngine on October 22nd. Learn best practices or share tips about creating web sites with EE.”
When: October 22, 2010 Where: Denver, Colorado, Casselman’s Event Venue
Adobe MAX 2010 “MAX 2010 is an amazing opportunity to learn new skills, explore emerging technologies, and connect with thousands of other industry leaders, Adobe products users, and Adobe teams. The conference offers hundreds of informative sessions and hands-on labs for designers, developers, and decision-makers, and there are countless networking opportunities, from organized events to casual conversations in hallways between sessions.”
When: October 23-27, 2010 Where: Los Angeles, CA, USA at the Los Angeles Convention Center & the Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE
FITC Unconference @ MAX 2010 “FITC brings together thousands of forward-thinking designers, developers, and business decision makers that are shaping the future of our industry. The Unconference is a way for attendees to convene in a casual setting to share ideas as well as host their own discussion groups. This year FITC has once again been chosen as one of the organizations to run one of the Unconference areas.”
When: October 25-27, 2010 Where: Los Angeles, CA, USA at the Los Angeles Convention Center
View Conference 2010 “VIEW Conference is the premiere international event in Italy on Computer Graphics, Interactive Techniques, Digital Cinema, 3D Animation, Gaming and VFX. VIEW 2010 will continue to focus on exploring the increasingly fluid boundary between real and digital worlds. Through lectures, meetings, tributes, exhibits, screenings and demo presentations VIEW will reveal the new digital frontier sweeping from cinema to architecture, from automotive design to advertisement, from medicine to videogames.”
When: October 26-29, 2010 Where: Turin, Italy, at the Conference center Torino Incontra
Web Developers Conference “The goal of the Web Developers Conference was to get students engaged with the world of the web and what this beautiful industry offers as well as meeting professionals and making important contacts that could lead to placements and even graduate positions.”
When: October 27, 2010 Where: Bristol, U.K at the UWE Exhibition & Conference Centre.
Microsoft PDC10 “The PDC isn’t just about content and sessions — it’s an opportunity for you to get hands-on access to the latest technologies, have your questions answered by the people who conceived and built the technologies and plan the features and architecture to support your business goals. If you’re a developer, architect or technology leader involved in making strategic technology decisions for your company or organization, you can’t afford to miss the PDC.”
When: October 28-29, 2010 Where: Seattle, WA, USA at the Microsoft Campus
Usability Week 2010 “Many conferences offer cavernous exhibit halls, brief seminars on second-hand discoveries, and a sense of anonymity that can be truly alienating. Usability Week takes a different approach. In place of scattered, shallow talks, Usability Week offers up to 6 days of deep learning as international experts lead full-day tutorials on topics such as: Fundamental guidelines for Web usability; Applying information architecture (IA) principles; Writing for the Web; Application design; Integrating social features on mainstream websites; The human mind (how your users think).”
When: Various dates in October and December. Where: San Francisco, U.S.A; Copenhagen, Denmark; Edinburgh, UK; Las Vegas, USA
November – December 2010 Events
An Event Apart San Diego “From the makers of A List Apart, An Event Apart is an intensely educational two-day conference for passionate practitioners of standards-based web design. If you care about code as well as content, usability as well as design, An Event Apart is the conference you’ve been waiting for.”
When: November 1-2, 2010 Where: San Diego, CA, U.S.A at the Westin Gas Lamp Quarter
When: November 3-4, 2010 Where: Bucharest, Romania at Hotel Intercontinental
FITC Edmonton 2010 “Back for its second year, FITC Edmonton promises to be jam-packed with presentations, demonstrations, and panel discussions. With some of the most interesting and engaging presenters from around the world, FITC Edmonton will be two days and nights that will leave you inspired, energized and awed!”
When: November 6-7, 2010 Where: Edmonton, AB, Canada at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology
edUi Conference “A learning opportunity for web professionals serving institutions of learning. Through a rare speaker lineup, including top innovators and industry peers, we provide inspiration, tools, and techniques to help web professionals serving colleges, universities, museums, libraries, and other institutions of learning address the challenges they share improving the experience of their users online. edUi 2010 offers something for every member of your web team, with sessions on usability, design, programming, rich media, strategy, social media, and more.”
When: November 8-9, 2010 Where: Charlottesville, VA, USA at the Omni Hotel
User Interface Conference “UI15 is an intense, inspiring 3-day event, masterfully crafted to bring out the best in today’s UX professionals. We’ve assembled an all-star team of design experts to share their latest techniques in interaction design, content strategy, design thinking, and visual communication.”
When: November 8-10, 2010 Where: Boston, MA, U.S.A at the Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel
Build Conference “The hand-crafted web design conference. Build is a small, yet perfectly formed, boutique design conference where interesting, talented web practitioners from all over the world come to share ideas, techniques and inspiration. Some are on stage; some are in the audience. For the second year running, we’ve created the conference we really want to go to. We think you might like it.”
When: November 8-12, 2010 Where: Belfast, Ireland at Waterfront Studio
RubyConf 2010 “RubyConf is the official International Ruby Conference. Founded in 2001, RubyConf has provided an annual venue for the ever-growing Ruby community to meet face to face to share, collaborate, and socialize.”
When: November 11-13, 2010 Where: New Orleans, LA, USA at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside
Full Frontal JavaScript Conference “Full Frontal is a conference held in Brighton UK, for the front end developers with JavaScript skills ranging from beginner to advanced. If you’ve dabbled with JavaScript in the past and wanted to learn more about how the language works and what makes it tick, then this conference is for you.”
When: November 12, 2010 Where: Brighton, UK at the historic Duke of York’s Picturehouse
Future of Web Design “The Future of Web Design is coming back to New York in 2010. The newly revitalised event has evolved into a beautiful three full days of essential web learning. A full day conference followed by 2 solid days of in depth workshops, all taught by the best in the industry.”
When: November 15-17, 2010 Where: New York City, NY, USA at New World Stages
Semantic Web Summit East “How can you create value that will put you ahead of the competition? The Semantic Web Summit, formerly the Web 3.0 Conference, features innovators across industries examining the potential of the semantic web, and how it can transform the way you do business. This won’t be a day and a half of technical jargon — this event is about improving efficiencies in marketing and information management for a positive bottom line effect.”
When: November 16-17, 2010 Where: Boston, MA, USA at the Hynes Convention Center
Design City Graphic Design Expo “Stay on top of your industry! Visit Design City and see the latest graphic design tools, services, and products from the world’s largest vendors. You’ll see and test software that you’ve been wanting to try, you’ll meet the people that you talk to on the phone every day, and you’ll be wowed by some of the latest technology created for your profession.”
When: November 20-22, 2010 Where: Toronto, ON, Canada, at the Direct Energy Centre
The Rich Web Experience “RWX 2010 will cover the hot areas of interest in the web space today: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Ajax Libraries, Semantic Web, iPhone, Android, Flex, GWT, NodeJS, Security, and more. RWX 2010 will feature 6 parallel tracks with over 15 speakers and 60 plus technical sessions/workshops. At RWX 2010 you will interact with industry experts, project leads, authors, and top developers.”
When: November 30 – December 3, 2010 Where: Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA at The Westin Beach Resort
Early 2011 Events
New Adventures in Web Design Conference “This event will be sympathetic to existing and new challenges and opportunities faced by front-end web folks in their day-to-day work and beyond. That said, the content will be beneficial to a broad audience, and a number of attendees and guests represent agencies, organisations, and businesses across varied roles. Ultimately, this event is organised by designers, for designers.”
When: January 20, 2011 Where: Nottingham, UK at the Albert Hall
Interaction Eleven “The IxDA Interaction conference is the premiere annual event for interaction designers, with content and activities relevant to practitioners, managers, educators, and students. Now in its fourth year, the Interaction conference has hosted leading speakers from consultancies, agencies, corporations, and universities around the world.”
When: February 9-12, 2011 Where: Boulder, Colorado, USA
International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces “IUI 2011 is the annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community and serves as the principal international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces.”
When: February 13-16, 2011 Where: Palo Alto, CA, USA at the Sheraton Palo Alto with workshops at nearby Stanford University
Information Architecture Summit “The Information Architecture Summit is the premier gathering place for information architects and other user experience professionals. It’s grown from a special interest group’s efforts to define an emerging field, to a rich and expanding community of practice, shaping and informing multiple disciplines. You don’t have to be an information architect or user experience professional to enjoy the Summit. You simply have to love the art and science of structuring information.”
When: March 30 – April 3, 2011 Where: Denver, CO, USA
SXSW Interactive 2011 “SXSW Interactive features five days of presentations from professionals in emerging technology, networking events hosted by industry leaders, and a lineup of special programs showcasing new digital works, video games and innovative ideas the international community has to offer.”
When: March 11-15, 2010 Where: Austin, Texas, USA
Related Links
Conference Roundup Very useful web application inspired by the original roundup here on Smashing Magazine.
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The arrival of HTML5 and CSS3 has given web designers a major sense of excitement by offering a broader range of options, creative opportunities and shortcuts for designing a web page. We could talk about all of these new features endlessly, instead, to keep things simple, we have highlighted four web tutorials that make use of HTML5 and CSS3 perfectly and that demonstrate effectively the potential power of these fantastic technologies.
This tutorial starts with the Photoshop stage of the blog design process, and shows how the design and layout are created to form an initial concept from which the fully coded blog will be based on. Coding a Stylish Blog Design Layout in HTML & CSS
The aim of this tutorial is to create an elegant blog/portfolio for an efficient professional (graphic and web designer or photographer), coded through two new great technologies, HTML 5 and CSS3. Touch The Future: Create An Elegant Website With HTML 5 And CSS3
This month Authentic Jobs turns five years old. I’ve been a member and listing partner (look in the sidebar for job listings from Authentic Jobs if you’re reading this on 456bereastreet.com) since early 2007, so I haven’t been along for the entire ride, but long enough to have seen this job board evolve and grow plenty. I have also seen how hard Cameron Moll works to keep Authentic Jobs current and fresh.
Anyway, the fifth birthday is celebrated by a campaign to raise money – USD 20 000 of it is the goal – for charity:water, a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing clean water to millions of people in developing countries. Read more about that and what’s coming next in this three-part celebration on Authentic Jobs ~ Five-Year Anniversary.
