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  1. Simon Willison — Building crowdsourcing applications

    Crowdsourcing appli ca tions take indi gestible tasks and break them down into digestible pieces, enabling a group to help plough through large scale projects in much shorter peri ods of time.

    Designing and build ing crowd sourc ing appli ca tions incor po rates a fas ci nat ing range of chal lenges, from usabil ity, psy chol ogy and inter ac tion design to scal ing appli ca tions for surges of traf fic — all the while ensur ing that con trib u tors are rewarded, good behav iour is encour aged and the result ing data comes out in a use ful format.

    This talk will dis cuss lessons learned build ing seri ous crowd sourc ing appli ca tions on news room sched ules at the Guardian, and play ful crowd sourc ing fea tures for WildlifeNearYou​.com.

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  2. Rachel Andrew — Core CSS3

    This ses sion will be a solid intro duc tion to CSS3 by way of prac ti cal exam ples that can get you started using CSS3 on your projects today.

    Rachel Andrew will take you through some of the core fea tures of CSS3 includ ing advanced selec tors, media queries and other fea tures that are being devel oped and start ing to be imple mented in browsers.

    In addi tion to dis cov er ing how CSS3 will change the way that we develop in the future we will explore cur rent and upcom ing browser sup port. We will also see how it is pos­si ble to start using some of CSS3 in your projects now, with the help of a lit tle JavaScript to plug the holes in cur rent browsers.

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  3. Sandi Wassmer — Inclusive design is for everyone

    nclusive Design is cur rently the domain of peo ple who design phys i cal things, like prod uct design ers and archi tects, but Sandi Wassmer is firm in her belief that Inclusive Design applied in the online envi ron ment just makes sense.

    The prin ci ples of Inclusive Design encom pass so many of the prac tices, prin ci ples and guide lines that web design ers are already using – Accessibility, Usability, User Centric Design, Progressive Enhancement and User Experience – but unlike each of these dis­crete prac tices, Inclusive Design gives design ers the abil ity to offer choice, as a sin gle design solu tion will never accom mo date all users.

    Sandi will talk about how the prin ci ples of Inclusive Design can be eas ily adopted by web design ers right now. By the end of the ses sion you’ll have the frame work for becom ing an inclu sion activist!

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  4. Steve Souders — Even faster web sites

    Web 2.0 is adding more and more con tent to our pages, espe cially fea tures that are imple mented in Ajax. But our web appli ca tions are evolv ing faster than the browsers that they run in. We don’t have to rely on or wait for the release of new browsers to make our web appli ca tions faster. In this ses sion, Steve Souders dis cusses web per for­mance best prac tices from his sec ond book, Even Faster Web Sites. These time-​​saving tech niques are used by the world’s most pop u lar web sites to cre ate a faster user expe ri ence, increase rev enue, and reduce oper at ing costs. Steve pro vides tech ni cal details about reduc ing the pain of JavaScript, as well as secrets for mak ing your page load faster in emerg ing mar kets where net work con nec tiv ity is a challenge.

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  5. Remy Sharp — Browsers with wings: HTML5 APIs

    HTML5 is all the rage with the cool kids, and although there’s a lot of focus on the new lan guage, there’s plenty for web app devel op ers with new JavaScript APIs both in the HTML5 spec and sep a rated out as their own W3C spec i fi ca tions. This ses sion will take you through demos and code and show off some of the out right crazy bleed ing edge demos that are being pro duced today using the new JavaScript APIs. But it’s not all pie in the sky – plenty is use ful today, some even in Internet Explorer!

    Specifically we’ll be look ing at script ing the video media ele ment, 2D can vas and some of the mashups we can achieve. How to take our web apps com pletely offline, going beyond the cookie and HTML5’s answer to thread ing: web workers.

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  6. Patrick Lauke — Brave New World of HTML5

    HTML5 was orig i nally called Web Applications 1.0, but that doesn’t mean it’s only for scripters – there’s plenty for markup mon keys as well as JavaScript junkies.

    We’ll look at new struc tural ele ments in HTML5, and how they can boost acces si bil ity, how to style them (even in IE!). We’ll check out how new seman tics can reduce the JS you need to write/​copy by adding func tion al ity natively to the browser, and how to add sexy open stan dard video to your pages with no Flash, no JavaScript, just a big hunk o’ open-​​web love.

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  7. Doug Schepers — SVG Today and Tomorrow

    Thought SVG was dead? Think again. Once rel e gated to plug-​​in sta tus, Scalable Vector Graphics is now spread ing rapidly, in browsers, mobiles, and even tele vi sions, with broad native sup port and graph i cal script libraries. It’s used on major web sites like Wikipedia, Google Docs, and the Washington Post. Whether images or apps, stand alone or inte grated into HTML, CSS, or Canvas, SVG is a pow er ful tool in a devel oper or designer toolkit. With full script ing sup port, ani ma tions, and advanced visual effects, SVG lets you reuse skills you already have. Learn how to use SVG to best effect to add standards-​​based bling to your webapp or site, see what works and what to avoid, and glimpse where the future lies.

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  8. Jeremy Keith — Hot Topics

    Continuing a popular @media tradition, the final session for day one, hosted by Jeremy Keith, will feature a handful of speakers discussing questions posed by conference attendees. Wear your flak jacket: there will be controversy! Jeremy Keith is an Irish web developer living in Brighton, England where he works with the web consultancy firm Clearleft. He has written two books, DOM Scripting and Bulletproof Ajax, but what he really wants to do is direct. His latest project is Huffduffer, a service for creating podcasts of found sounds. When he’s not making websites, Jeremy plays bouzouki in the band Salter Cane. His loony bun is fine benny lava. Follow Jeremy on Twitter: @adactio

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