Category: "Front End Web Development"

Standards.Next HTML5
Jun 27th
Review: Standards.Next HTML5 at Bricklayer's Arms, 31 Gresse Street, London, W1T 1QY 13:00 to 17:30
This was a free event with several speakers covering several aspects of the draft HTML5 standard. It wasn't an ideal venue for presentations as there… more »

Adventures in Web 3.0: Part 1 - HTML 5
Jan 18th
Last week I was reading about the Event Apart re-design which uses HTML5. I have remained peripherally aware of HTML 5 (I'm on the mailing list) but mostly I've just been following the ongoing debate about adding RDFa to the spec (which has seemed, at b… more »

Mozilla Ubiquity
Sep 1st
Mozilla announced a new labs project, Ubiquity, last week. It's intended to be a keyboard driven interface to advanced functionality in the web browser, similar to Gnome Do, which I've been using a lot recently, and the Mac application Quicksilver.
I… more »

London Geek Nights: Ajax
Jun 17th
Review: London Geek Nights: Ajax at London offices of ThoughtWorks UK. 18:30 to 20:30
First up was a talk by Remy Sharp on jQuery. I got the impression there were a fair few folk there who didn't have much experience with Javascript so it was quite in… more »

In The Brain of Peter Elst: The evolution of the Flash Platform & ActionScript 3.0
Jun 1st
Review: The evolution of the Flash Platform & ActionScript 3.0 at Skills Matter, Sekforde Street, London 18:30 to 20:00
This was my final London Web Week event, my curiosity for Flash had been piqued somewhat by my attendance at the onAIR London ev… more »

WSG London Findability Meetup
May 29th
Review: Web Standards Group London Meetup at Westminster University, New Cavendish Street campus, London 19:00 to 21:00
Concepts of Findability (Cyril Doussin) - This was a whirlwind tour of the subject of findability, mostly based on Peter Morville's A… more »

Microformats vEvent
May 28th
It's London Web Week, which means there are lots of events on. I plan to go to three of them myself, the first of which was last night's Microformats vEvent.
Review: Microformats vEvent at The Yorkshire Grey, Holborn, London 19:00 to 21:30
The venue w… more »