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Designing User-Centric Web Sites by Chris Messina
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In the third of our series of articles in the lead-up to The Future of Web Apps in London, Chris Messina looks at how we should make sites more user-centric, using forward-facing technologies that are available now.
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The Future Of Web Apps In An Integrated World by Rufus Evison
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In the second of our series of articles in the run-up to The Future of Web Apps in London, speaker Rufus Evison speculates on what an integrated future, where the cellphone does everything, might look like.
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How To Solve A Problem Like The Browser by Jeremy Baines
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In the leadup to The Future of Web Apps Expo in London, I asked some of the speakers to give me their idea of what the future might hold. In the first article of this series, Jeremy Baines discusses moving web apps from the browser.
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Accessibility In Suit And Tie by Bruce Lawson
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The life of the corporate web worker who cares about standards and accessibility can be a frustrating one; hampered by office politics and archaic content management systems. In this article, Bruce looks at what you can do to make sure your projects are as accessible for your users as possible.
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Easy Automated Web Application Testing with Hudson and Selenium by Ben Rometsch
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Developing web applications is getting more complex - it's easy to accidentally break functionality as changes are made. In this article, Ben describes the setup his team uses to test their apps as changes are committed; automatically notifying the developers of any problems.
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Om Malik has noted that Chrome usage has dropped back somewhat now that the initial excitement has died down. Google has removed the "download" link from its homepage - maybe Google is scaling back promotion for now. Looking at Vitamin's stats, Chrome is still hovering around 4%, which is pretty impressive. Opera, for example, only has 2.5%.
Simon Mackie October 6, 2008
After releasing some more tickets on the weekend, we still have a few 2-day passes to The Future of Web Apps Expo in London this week. For those that are going, I'll see you there!
Simon Mackie October 6, 2008
The open-source Photoshop alternative GIMP has been updated. Check out the release notes.
Simon Mackie October 2, 2008
Flickr have launched a new version of their mobile site especially optimized for the iPhone (only if you are using Mobile Safari). Great job guys, it's lovely.
Simon Mackie October 2, 2008
The first lot of FOWA Miami tickets sold out in only two hours! So we're releasing some more tomorrow: 100 conference passes at $200 each (normal price: $395), 20 workshops + conference passes at $300 each (normal price: $695), 10 student passes at $45 each. They go on sale tomorrow (Friday) at 1pm Miami time and they'll sell out quick.
Simon Mackie October 2, 2008
YUI 2.6 has been released. It includes the brand new Carousel Control, makes the Paginator Control available for general use, and contains a host of fixes.
Simon Mackie October 2, 2008
The Future of Web Apps is coming to Miami in February. We'll have some fantastic speakers, including Michael Arrington, Jason Fried, and Joel Spolsky. There are 100 early seats available for a great price (just $100) so get in quick!
Simon Mackie October 1, 2008
Apple has (at last!) dropped the iPhone Developer NDA which has been stopping developers talking when their apps are rejected by the App Store.
Simon Mackie October 1, 2008
