WDS08: Workshop Day One - Django-a-gogo!

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Well, my day one workshop is over and my head is well and truly full after attending Jeff Croft's Building a CMS with Django.

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Web Directions Preparations

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I've been to Web Directions for the last couple of years and every time I walk away with not only new ideas, but renewed enthusiasm to get stuff done and innovate. (That's not to say that stuff will actually get done, but it feels great!)

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Browser Action! Go!

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In browser news, we've recently seen the release of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, as well as the surprising (for me anyway) Google Chrome.

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In a world no longer.

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In a world... ah, who am I kidding. Nobody can do Don LaFontaine quite like Don LaFontaine, who sadly died on Monday at the age of 68. Movie trailers will never be the same again. The Washington Post has a touching tribute.


Google Street View hits Shepparton

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After spotting the Google Street View car in Shepparton about 7 months ago, the surprisingly-complete photos of our local streets are now online.

I'm not quite sure when this happened. Australia may have been all switched on at the same time to coincide with Google Maps UI's recent redesign or it may have been a gradual thing implemented over the past few months, but I think it's all kinds of cool.

Privacy issues aside, I think this is a great tool as well as an awesome toy. I wonder how often Google plan on updating the street photography.


It's funny because it's rude...

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Not only does this article have one of the greatest main-stream-media headlines I've ever seen, but the actual article (and accompanying YouTube video) is just as funny.


Michael Bay's "The Dark Knight"

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Michael Bay's proposed script for The Dark Knight is one of the funniest things I've read in a while.


CSS variables are go!

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In a post I wrote almost a year ago (and in the ensuing comments), I pondered the possibility of someday being able to define variables natively in a CSS document without the use of server-side scripting.

Well it seems that in their most recent nightly build, WebKit has added support for this.

@variables {
    CorporateLogoBGColor: #fe8d12;
}
div.logoContainer {
    background-color: var(CorporateLogoBGColor);
}

I'm not sure if this is based on any particular official CSS3 recommendation or if its something that WebKit has just grabbed and ran with in the hope of it going mainstream, but its certainly a step in the right direction.


Wow... that was quick... IE8 beta 1 hits the web.

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A nice surprise just hit my feed reader. Microsoft has just released the Windows Internet Explorer 8 Readiness Toolkit, a micro-site containing download links for IE8 beta 1 as well as useful information for web developers.

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Microsoft does the right thing. Web developers' heads explode in surprise.

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For those who haven't been following the recent drama regarding the proposed web standards behaviour in IE8, here's a re-cap.

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