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Web Directions South is “The Australian Web Industry Conference”, running October 11–14 in 2011, and its in Sydney. There are two days of workshops, two days of conference with four in depth tracks, keynotes, an expo and a veritable smorgasboard of social stuff. There is probably no better way to […]

Every freelancer wants advocates spreading good word of mouth on our behalf. And in hindsight, it’s easy to pick the advocates — they’re the clients who, by the end of the job, love you and your work. But what if you could identify potential advocates? Clients give hints as to […]

Now that you have a basic understanding of what a cloud is and how it works, let’s enumerate and dive in to some of its most useful attributes and characteristics. After spending years talking about Amazon Web Services in public forums, I’ve found that characterization is often more effective than […]

In my last post, How to Use HTML5 File Drag Drop, we discovered how to use the HTML5 File API, implement drag and drop events, and retrieve file information. Today, we’ll attempt to load files on the client using JavaScript. Why Open Local Files in JavaScript? Uploading files from an […]

After talking to thousands of people over the last few years, I’ve learned that there are a lot of misconceptions floating around the cloud. Some of this is due to the inherent unease that many feel with anything new. Other misconceptions reflect the fact that all the technologies are evolving […]

Dragging and dropping files from your desktop to a browser is one of the ultimate goals for web application integration. This is the first in a four-part series of posts which describes how to: enable file dragging and dropping onto a web page element analyze dropped files in JavaScript load […]