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Day 2 was for me, not as enjoyable as Day 1, but none the less, was still quite informative and because I had to leave early, much more rushed. Michal Migurski’s – @migurskikeynote was very cool and was good to see another infographic/visualisation geek like me, but this guy runs rings around me. I alsoContinue reading “Web Directions South – Day 2”

Came across this cool thing whilst on my lunch break the other day. Its called App Inventor. You can build just about any app you can imagine with App Inventor. Often people begin by building games like WhackAMole or games that let you draw funny pictures on your friend’s faces. You can even make useContinue reading “App Inventor”

I’ve been messing around with this Flash CS5 30 day trial at work and thus far it will be a fantastic upgrade when I eventually buy it. Not because of new features or the “Adobe interface” (which honestly is just Adobe tabs wrapping old Macromedia UI elements), but because Flash CS5 is a Universal BinaryContinue reading “Flash CS5 Embedding issues”

After watching this show on ABC the other day, “Worst Jobs in History with Tony Robinson” made me wonder, some people have some very sad jobs. Everyone, please note, you do not always have to commit themselves to a desk job in a stifling cubicle to feel vocationally fulfilled. Following their passions and a senseContinue reading “Weird and wacky jobs”

var campbell = { full_name: “Campbell Douglas Thomas Craig”, title: “Training Support Officer”, employer: “University of Melbourne – Web Services (Training and Documentation Team)” current_home_location: “Narre Warren, Victoria” education: { undergraduate: { location: “Swinburne University of Technology – Hawthorn Campus”, degree: “B.Multimedia (Media Studies, Telecommunications and Software Engineering)”, completion_date: “04-06-1999” }, postgraduate: { honors: “HumanContinue reading “Funny Profile”

Its been a while that I would like to work on a few cool projects of mine, but been putting it off. So, I thought about it some more and decided, I should action some of them. It starts with a vision of the final outcome. Achieve that vision by creating a strategy to get you there. Execute theContinue reading “Project Philosophy”

Lately I was reading there was some noise surrounding HTML5 and the myth of WAI-ARIA redundance. It surprises me how quickly finding the actual problem here is dismissed as “who knows.” It almost seems as if some part of the accessibility community has shifted from promoting the writing of clean markup, to promoting write whatever theContinue reading “HTML5 and WAI-ARIA Drama Llamas”

been to a place for the first time and it seems really familiar? What about if you go to that place and feel more at ease there than just about anywhere else? What if that’s not even in the same country you live in? A long time ago when I was a kid I heardContinue reading “Have you ever…”

I’ve just been asked this question by many a client and I’m not so sure my answer was right. I said, ‘A good business card identifies a person with a product, brand (and/or) company and gives the contact details for that person.’ I didn’t mention creativity or design. Should I have done? I know itContinue reading “What makes a good business card?”

Yup, it is the most common conversation I have with people these days concerns the process of turning ideas into iPhone applications. Sure, I love talking with entrepreneurs and people passionate about their ideas. It’s one of the things I look forward to most in my job. Unfortunately, we are at a phase in theContinue reading “iPhone Apps”