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BCS West Yorkshire Presentation, June 9th 2009 - "Web standards past, present and future"

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Here are the slides from my web standards talk in Leeds, UK, on June 9th 2009. Topics covered include Opera, Mobile web, SVG, CSS 3, HTML 5, debugging tools, web history and accessibility.

Download the slides using this link.

Swedish geek meet slides

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Sorry for taking so long to get these online. I will write more about the Geek Meet next week, but for now, here are the slides!

Thanks to everyone who turned up - Remy and I felt really well looked after, and we enjoyed your hospitality. You are wonderful, friendly people!

Stockholm_geekmeet_slides.zip (ZIP file, 4.4mb)

Unzip the file, then load up the HTML file in your favourite browser. If you are using Opera, you can turn it into a slide show by selecting View > Full Screen.

Go to Boxcrate airlines to check out the latest version of the code in action; you can download the code from the Boxcrate airlines repo.

Ukraine university tour, April 2009

Today was a unique day. No, not because I had to wake up at 3.30 am to get ready to go to the airport. That's happened a number of times, and it always feels far more crushing that I had guessed at the night before. No, today saw me jetting off to Ukraine, which I was excited about because it is the first time I've ever been to a CIS (ex-USSR) country.

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European Accessibility Forum Frankfurt

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It is always nice to head off to a conference, knowing that for once I won't be away from home for a week, and won't have to travel for an entire day to get there!

I'm currently in a functional-but-pleasent hotel room, getting ready for a great day at the European Accessibility Forum Frankfurt. I'll be speaking on a panel about web standards and accessibility in higher education, talking about what the problem is teaching these subjects at schools and universities, and what we are doing about it in the industry.

the speaker's dinner was great last night, and I had the chance to have some great conversations with some old friends (such as Martin Kliehm, Henny Swan, Chris Heilmann, Niqui Merret), and some new (Steve Faulkner, Marco Zehe, Saqib Shaikh).

So let's get on with the day! I've got a good feeing about this...

Download my conference slides - Opera Show format, created using HTML, CSS, and a little SVG. Download the zip, unzip, then double click the HTML file. If you are using Opera, select View > Full Screen to view the presentation in all it's multislide glory.

IceWeb 2008, 13-15 November, 2008

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So for my latest conference expedition, I headed over to the snowy shores of Iceland for the IceWeb conference, give some talks, chat to some geeks, and see some amazing sights. The conference was great fun, and it was lovely to meet so many really lovely, friendly, passionate people. Thanks to Brian, Einar, Thora, and the other organizers for looking after me and my family so well.

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BLOC Mobile workshop resources

Here are the resources for my BLOC mobile development workshop, December 4th 2008

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HighEdWeb 2008, Missouri, USA, October 5-8 2008

After years of going to great conferences created by web developers, for web developers, I decided to try something a little different. For those of you who don't know, HighEdWeb is the conference for web folk working at educational institutions. I read about it on the WaSP Edu TF mailing list, and decided to give it a try, thinking it would be ideal for promoting the web standards curriculum at, so I submitted a talk proposal and waited. Track co-organiser Stephanie Leary got back to me to say that my talk had been accepted, which was great, so I got prepared myself and got going!

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Fronteers 2008, Amsterdam

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Here is my report on the excellent Fronteers conference, which happened in Amsterdam in September 2008.

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d.Constructing d.Construct 2008

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d.Construct this year was fun; a lot of fun. Read this post to find more out about what I got up to at this great geek event.

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Web standards education presentations

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This post contains links to download the slides for all my presentations...

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