The Stylemaster folks at WestCiv have some online CSS tools that are useful. Make gradients, transforms, shadows and stroke text with these tools. Small icons on each tool show you which browsers currently support these CSS3 techniques. The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing for 2010 is themed “Collaborating Across Boundaries.” It’s set in [...]
Web Directions North has a new web site and an announced lineup for the Atlanta, GA, conference September 21–25. This group includes a lot of people interested in web education, InterACT, and OWEA. You don’t see it on the agenda, but there will be plenty of people there who want to engage in conversation about [...]
The InterACT Summit: Virtual Book Launch and Conference, June 11, 2010. Along with members of the Web Standards Project, we are proud to announce the launch of InterACT With Web Standards, a book that brings all aspects of web design together for teachers and students. To celebrate the release of the book, several of the [...]
This video is from the ’08 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. The ’09 conference is in progress now and I hope it is as successful as the ’08 event appeared to be. The Female Perspective of Computer Science is reporting on this year’s event. Here are posts from Oct. 1, from September 30, [...]
Thursday, September 17, 2009
The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing will be September 30 – October 3, 2209. Registration closes on September 25. Here’s what it’s about: The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing is a series of conferences designed to bring the research and career interests of women in computing to the forefront. Presenters are [...]
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Animators, motion graphics artists, title designers, visual effects artists, broadcast designers: Motion Conference 09 is for you. This year’s event is October 11 – 14 in Albuquerque, NM. The speaker’s list this year includes Chris & Trish Meyer, Mark Coleran, Mike Goedecke, Jamie Caliri, and more rock star names from the field. Here’s a look [...]
I have more photos of BlogHer09 on Flickr, but thought you might enjoy seeing the faces in a slideshow here. Sorry about the ad–I’m too cheap to pay for the ad-free version at Smilebox. There’s no music on this one, so you can peek at work. Make a Smilebox slideshow
Something significant for web education is happening in Chattanooga from August 5-8. The event is dubbed the Web Education Rocks Summit. The event is a meeting of the newly formed Open Web Education Alliance. Members are meeting to create a structure for OWEA that will aid companies, schools, and organizations involved in shaping the education [...]
In apophenia: I want my cyborg life blogger zephoria (aka Danah Boyd) talks about a culture gap she experienced using the backchannel at a recent conference. One of the conference speakers pointed her out as “not paying attention” because she was using the backchannel. My frustration at the anti-computer attitude goes beyond the generational gap [...]
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