Web Dev Digest

As you may or may not know, producing the Web Dev Digest takes anywhere from three to four hours, daily. Though I’ve been able to do this for eighteen working days in a row now I do have a day job and a family to think of too, which compels me to re-evaluate the show in my list of priorities. This will therefore be the last Web Dev Digest pending further notice. The show will undoubtedly return though the frequency and format will likely be altered. If you’ve been listening to the show and have benefited from it, this would be the time to write in with your feedback.

Thanks for listening.

 

 Hiatus [0:40m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Show Links

• CSS 2.1 is a Candidate Recommendation… again
• Facebook buys Parakey
• Eric Meyer Workshop in London
• Opera security fix and Kestrel announcement
• McFarlane Prize Nominations Open

Transcript

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 Episode 17: CSS 2.1 again, Facebook buys Parakey, Eric Meyer in London and more... [3:26m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Show Links

• Firefox fixes nine bugs (originally reported FF/IE bug)
• Comcast wants IE and nothing else (via)
• Download free chapters of Java SE 6 book (via)
• Visual Studio 2008 to support nested Master Pages
• SWX Screencast (more on SWX)
• Kevin Cheng’s IA Summit 2007 Presentation (via)

Transcript

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 Episode 16: Firefox bug fixes, Comcast wants IE only, SWX for Flash, Visual Studio 2008 and more... [3:44m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Show Links

• Intro to Screen Readers and Magnifiers
• Sphinn
• How to lose your readers in under 2 minutes
• Usability is a path to failure
• A List Apart 241
  • Never Use a Warning When you Mean Undo
  • Conflicting Absolute Positions
• Corporate Web Standards
• Google Hosted Site Search for Small Businesses

Transcript
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 Episode 15: Assisstive Technologies, A List Apart 241, Corporate Web Standards and more... [5:22m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Show Links

• Web Usability
• XHTML Basic 1.1 is a Candidate Recommendation
• JCR 2.0 is under public review
• Google Gears ORM v0.1 (via)
• Getting Into Google (via)
• Dangerous Ruling Puts Interactive Services at Risk
• Firefox now serious threat to IE in Europe
• Emerging Design Trends

Transcript
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 Episode 14: Usability, Inside Google, Gears ORM, EFF, Firefox threat to IE and more... [6:00m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Show Links

• The end of PHP 4
• Flex for Java Coders 5-day Bootcamp (via)
• Ajax Insecurity (Black Hat USA 2007, Topics and Speakers)

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 Episode 13: End of PHP4, Flex for Java Coders and Ajax Insecurity [3:08m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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I’m pleased to announced that the Web Dev Digest is now listed in the iTunes podcast directory.

They don’t seem to have picked up the album art or the latest episode, but I’m sure I’ll get that sorted out soon enough. As you can probably tell by looking around, the show and the site are being improved incrementally. So please feel free to send me your feedback and comments at ara@webdevdigest.net.

Thanks!

Show Links

• Microsoft’s “Cloud OS”
• Train The Trainer
• Gears Roadmap and Development Process (via)
• Three Critical Updates for Flash (via)

Transcript for this show. Music by His Boy Elroy under CC.

 

 Web Dev Digest Episode 12 [3:30m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Show Links

• MSDN’s intro to JSON in JavaScript and .NET
• Introducing Google Mapplets
• Google Mapplets Documentation
• Introducing iUI
• Overview of Google’s Accessible Services
• Anti-Aliasing Icons
• Release date set for Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 (via)

Transcript for this show. Music by His Boy Elroy under CC.

 

 Web Dev Digest Episode 11 [5:49m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download