\n\tThe Web Directions South (WDS) conference has kicked off for another year, where participants will discuss HTML 5, JavaScript, CSS and many other web technologies. Coupled with all that will be memes, geekiness and raging against old Internet Explorer versions and mobile browsers.
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\n\tIn this image, Addy Osmani is discussing scalable JavaScript design patterns and his in development Aura framework.
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\n\tDr Anne Galloway of Victoria University of Wellington opened the day by discussing an internet of cows, cyborg beetles and distilling Facebook games down to their purest form.
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\n\tThroughout the conference centre are exhibits from students in the Sydney Design Lab — this piece is made of a large touchscreen and OpenGL.
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\n\tVision Australia provided free accessibility audits for websites, and also had a number of glasses to simulate various visual conditions.
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\n\tMeet the facetweetbox. When the conference is liked on Facebook, or someone tweeted with the conference’s hashtag, the logo would quickly light up.
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\n\tNo conference today would be complete without at least one reference to rainbows and unicorns.
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\n\tHere, John Allsopp is revisiting his Dao of Web Design article from 2000.
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\n\tIt’s not hard to guess which country is in the middle of a banana shortage.
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\n\tMore than one stand in the vendor expo decided that Guitar Hero was the way to draw attention to themselves. In this stand, punters would win a free domain registration if they could best the company representative.
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\n\tThe complimentary coffee was a big hit at morning tea.
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Some would say that it is a long way from software engineering to journalism, others would correctly argue that it is a mere 10 metres according to the floor plan. During his first five years with CBS Interactive, Chris started his journalistic adventure in 2006 as the Editor of Builder AU after originally joining the company as a programmer. Leaving CBS Interactive in 2010 to follow his deep desire to study the snowdrifts and culinary delights of Canada, Chris based himself in Vancouver and paid for his new snowboarding and poutine cravings as a programmer for a lifestyle gaming startup. Chris returns to CBS in 2011 as the Editor of TechRepublic Australia determined to meld together his programming and journalistic tendencies once and for all.
