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Webstock 08 Wrap

Wow. Last week was absolutely crazy. Aside from being super busy at work and trying to keep several part-time music and design projects ticking over (!!), I attended Webstock 08 (aka The Nat Torkington...

By , 20th February 2008 In:

Webstock 08: The Transforming Web

The carpet has been pulled out from under our feet and the new web is a very different place to what we were used to. On Friday morning at Webstock, eager conference goers were subjected to several...

Webstock 08: The Age of Frameworks

Many of us are still conditioned to think of design frameworks in terms of grid systems, Swiss graphic design, and rigid corporate identity systems. The problems with these are similar to the problems...

Webstock 08: Good Design Ain't Easy

Jason Santa Maria's Good Design Ain't Easy was one of the most interesting sessions for me, digging into a topic that I've been through so many arguments over in the past. It may have been old news...

By , 20th February 2008 In:

Introducing Historiographica

So I've started another website, a kind of ongoing accident, with the idea echoing so intensely during Webstock as I culled together my 8x5 presentation, it just seemed to burst out of my brain and...

Here comes Webstock

Excitement builds... Today was the first day of Webstock workshops in Wellington, and s'all abuzz in the NZWC. At SilverStripe, more than half our office is likely to be gone over the two conference...

By , 11th February 2008 In:

FullCodePress Selection

Finalists for the New Zealand FullCodePress team have been selected, and I'm one of them! Final selection is tomorrow. Good luck to everyone who has been nominated, especially the other two selected...

Webstuck

Yes, I'm still alive. No, I'm not planning to be at Webstock even though the lineup looks fantastic and me ol' mates Mark and Phil will be showing off some pretty cool stuff in the 8x5 session. I...

By , 16th May 2006 In:

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