For the past few months I've been using a Wacom Bamboo Pen + Touch tablet, replacing the original Bamboo I reviewed a while ago. I've given a pretty good workout on both Windows XP and Windows 7, so it's about time to review this one too.
I've felt torn watching the current spat between Apple and Adobe. On the one hand, it might move a few people away from building Flash sites. On the other hand, it bothers me to have people act like it's suddenly a game-changer - it means they just aren't paying attention.
A perennial question on discussion lists, and in fact at work, is how to handle heading hierarchies in pages and title structure across sites.
While there's a fair bit of opinion to be had, when people focus on creating a valid document structure the same rules consistently appear. These rules not only match up to the high-minded ideals of specification, but also serve the prosaic requirements of the daily development grind.
On Friday Canberra welcomed an influx of web geeks, inviting them to mash up government-supplied data in interesting and useful ways. I'm not sure anyone really knew what to expect, least of all the hosts!
In the tradition of my "big stonking posts", these are my notes from WDS09 - basically unedited (expect typos ;)), unfiltered for the most part (so they are a bit liveblogish in tone). Stuff [inside square brackets] is an aside, my own thoughts rather than something the speaker said. Sketch notes taken from Waferbaby's awesome sketch notes (under CC license).
When we get new toys, we use them... and use them... and use them... Sometimes the problem with new toys is reminding ourselves when not to use them.
Web development is no different. Support for new CSS features means we can start using things like rounded corners, font embedding and proper transparency/opacity - straight from our stylesheets.