melbourne chapter

An excellent video on web pop culture by Cultural Anthropologist Michael Wesch…Enjoy!

I have recently been flat out establishing my company Radiant Logic PTY LTD, based in Melbourne, Australia. I appologise for not adding more posts more regularly - I have been taking a break while I establish my team and going through a very large expansion. We are a company that specialises in custom web application development focusing on working with creative agencies.
In January we went to the PHP Melbourne User Group which made an interesting night. We will be attending Web DU and the mobile summit. We have got lots of exciting projects underway for this year including 2 major sites, one in the environmental sector and one in the food and beverage. We are doing a JEE custom development project also for catalogue photographer briefing system integrating into Cumulus also.
For anyone with advanced web application development skills looking for a job in a great experienced team please send me your resume to cam [-at-] radiantlogic.com.au. We are always interested in meeting new people and discussing opportunities to get people involved.

Custom Web Application Development in Melbourne Australia for highly creative sites and studios.

Notice the popup previews on our external links? No it’s not intentional advertising it’s just another nifty Web 2.0 component called Snap Preview Anywhere which takes a quick screen dump of the target website - sorta of a peek around the corner if you like

The website I have been working on with Carbon+ for the last couple of months has just been awarded the international Interactive Media Award - Best in class:

The T2 Website has won the Interactive Media Awards “Best in Class” !

The Best in Class award is the highest honour bestowed by the Interactive Media Awards. It represents the very best in planning, execution and overall professionalism. In order to win this award level, your site had to successfully pass through our comprehensive judging process, achieving very high marks in each of our judging criteria - an achievement only a fraction of sites in the IMA competition earn each year.

I would be interested to see what other awards it picks up in Australia!

Having a flick onto BuilderAU this morning I read an article titled “Developer skills outlook 2007: What’s hot for employers?” which covered a fair few technologies. Namely mentioned amongst the mix was Java, C#, PHP, Web2.0 and Flex. Most the article and its interviews stresses the importance of mixing technologies to stay competitive and unique, and to constantly learning new technologies to spread your risk (in the sense of a technology you invest too much time into become obsolete).

With the purchasing of new technologies and business google has to be weary of openning the legal surface plane to potential lawsuits. Have a read of the article appearing on The Age titled Google lawyers fend off the YouTube lawsuits.

If you don’t mind waiting for 30 minutes or so checkout browsershots.org for a free online browser testing service . Submit your site to various browsers, resolutions, colour depth with or without JavaScript or Flash and much much more!
FYI I have noticed screenshots are viewable by the public temporarily whilst in the “queue” and “recent screenshots” pages

An interesting game simulating a real life web browsing scenario (brought to you by beta.com)
http://www2.b3ta.com/realistic-internet-simulator/

I was skimming one of my Google Groups today and I came across a user asking how to launch a page in fullscreen for his kiosk application. Lots of contributors were talking about creating links to launch chromeless windows, fair enough for a website but not a kiosk application Internet Explorer 6 actually has an inbuilt kiosk mode. Just pass -k to the command line and IE opens fullscreen booya!.

Typically this is done through a shortcut:

1. Right-Click Desktop

2. New Shortcut

3. Enter this as the location:

“C:Program FilesInternet Exploreriexplore.exe” -k

4. Enter a name:

“Launch Kiosk”

5. Finish

Just remember to Alt-F4 to close the window

I have been away for a while overseas and have just stepped back into the office. We were away travelling in Hong Kong and Italy, going to Venice, Milan, Como, Bellagio, Cinque Terra, Luca, Siena, Florence and Rome, flat out! We will be sorting through some photos and I will place up the link to Flickr when I get a chance. Trip was fantastic, has racked up quite a bit on the CC though! as expected!