Web Directions Podcast

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Date Title & Description Contributors
2011-11-06

  Tom Hughes-Croucher - Up and Running with Node.js

Learn how to build high performance Internet and web applications with Node.js. In is session Tom Hughes-Croucher will demonstrate how to quickly build a high performance chat server using Node.js. This live coding exercise will provide a real insight ...
  Tom Hughes-Croucher author
2011-11-06

  Christopher Giffard - HTML5 Video, Captioning, and Timed Metadata

HTML5 Video has been a hot topic for the last couple of years - but with new additions to the specification, we can now extend it beyond all recognition. In this session we’ll look at basic timed data, closed captioning and more - and as we adventure i...
  Christopher Giffard author
2011-11-06

  Julio Cesar Ody - CSS3 and Backbone.js for killer mobile apps

Learn how to build great looking and high performance mobile web applications leveraging CSS3 animations and Backbone.js, along with some cool use cases for geolocation and localStorage. This session will describe in length a boilerplate you can use f...
  Julio Cesar Ody author
2011-11-06

  Adam Bell& David Peterson - Bringing History Alive: Telling stories with Linked Data and open source tools

The Australian War Memorial is connecting and enriching online archives and collections toward building a platform for telling history. Through Drupal 7 and Linked Data, the Memorial intends to develop tools that designers, researchers and historians c...
  Adam Bell& David Peterson author
2011-11-06

  Gian Wild - WCAG2 accessibility: the hidden nuggets

WCAG2 is a long series of documents. Gian Wild knows this better than most: she spent six years on the W3C WCAG Working Group writing them. It’s a lot to ask that every developer and project manager read the complete guidelines, including informative c...
  Gian Wild author
2011-11-06

  Robert O’Callahan - The Open Web Platform in the mobile era

Mozilla is dedicated to ensuring that competition and innovation thrive on the Internet. In the last decade we rescued the Web from a near-monopoly and restored competition to the browser market. Now the standards-based Web platform is evolving rapidly...
  Robert O’Callahan author
2011-11-06

  Peter Mika - Making the Web searchable

The key idea of the Semantic Web is to make information on the Web easily consumable by machines. As machines start to understand web pages as sources of data that can be easily combined with other public data on the Web, the promise is that search on ...
  Peter Mika author
2011-11-05

  Rob Manson - Web standards based Augmented Reality

Augmented Reality lets you peel away the blinkers from your real world eyes to see the rich data and information that exists all around you. But up until now it has relied largely on proprietary tools and standards. Finally, we’re close to being able t...
  Rob Manson author
2011-11-05

  Michael Honey& Tim Riley - Web or native? Smart choices for smartphone apps

Computers are increasingly being held in the hand rather than sitting atop lap or desk. We now have to consider how our products will work underneath a finger instead of a mouse cursor. Increasingly, too, those products are being delivered as native ap...
  Michael Honey& Tim Riley author
2011-11-05

  Lisa Herrod - Accessibility for web teams: Recategorising WCAG 2 using a role-based approach

The application of web accessibility guidelines in a holistic manner across all roles of a web team continues to encounter resistance. This is often due to a lack of resources and knowledge, or no sense of relevancy in certain web roles. While there is...
  Lisa Herrod author