Meeting
September’s meet is in Birmingham on Saturday 13th, starting at 2pm in the Old Joint Stock.
Topics for discussion this meeting include Google Chrome, tales from dConstruct and whether you want to upgrade your iPod to this year’s model. Plus all the standard talk of, well, standards, design and development.
Read more about this meeting on Upcoming.
Does Birmingham Need a Creative Director?
Stef gave a great presentation at Creative Republic about how creativity and culture in Birmingham is mostly invisible to the potential visitor. As an experiment he arrived at a city carpark and then attempted to only follow the signs. Read Stef’s post entitled “A Creative Director for Birmingham”.
Bearflakes?
The guys at One Black Bear are working on a new not-so-secret project - Cloudflakes - an integrated host/development/deployment solution. Apparently their PHPWax framework is due for a full release in the near future too…
What to ask?
Si has been busy looking for a new minion, and asked the ‘pack to suggest some good interview questions for a web developer.
dConstruct Rundown
Matt went to dConstruct 2008, a conference on designing for the social web, you can read about the event’s highs and lows at his blog in a post titled “dConstruct 2008 - Designing the Social Web”.
Browsing Guides?
The UK Government put out a draft of its browser guidelines for public sector websites. They’re a bit shit. Fortunately they’ve asked for feedback, which ‘pack member Bruce Lawson responded and has written on the Web Standards Project website.
UX London
UX London is a new event for 2009 from those whacky folk at Clearleft. Lots of big names from the usability and user experience world like Don Norman and Jared Spool will be speaking.