Conference Sessions
A stellar line up of talent presenting four, jam-packed session tracks; Web Experience, Flash Platform, ColdFusion and RIA Development. Covering a gamut of topics from Flash fundamentals, CSS based design, ColdFusion insights, to Flex, AJAX and team process management. A veritable feast of cutting edge, web techniques.
Workshop: Transfer Training Workshop
A full day workshop working with the author of the Transfer Object Relational Mapping Framework, Mark Mandel. This workshop will take you through building a sample application with Transfer, covering Eclipse IDE setup, installation and configuration, usage, and some of Transfer's more advanced feature set to show you how you can use Transfer to drastically cut down the amount of SQL and ColdFusion you need to write when developing applications, and start delivering applications in a fraction of the time you did previously. This workshop is suitable for those people who have never used Transfer, or any other ORM, as well as those who already have a familiarity with it.
FULL DAY Price: $495 (inc GST) More...
Beyond Browsing - Web 2.0 Goes Mobile
With Web 2.0, the era of participation has spawned a whole new generation of web-based communities and hosted services - from social-networking sites with embedded widgets and social applications to wikis and folksonomies - a set of meshing behaviours and technologies bringing a whole new meaning to the idea of people facilitating, collaborating and sharing. More...
Actionscript 3 Graphics Programming
Whether creating games or visualising data in flex applications, knowing the concepts and tips and tricks to Actionscript 3 graphics programming can save development time and increase quality of projects. More...
Keynote: The Long Arm of the Web
Join Mike Downey, Principal Evangelist at Adobe, for a look at web outside the browser -- covering a range of platform technologies including Adobe AIR, Flex, and Flash. Downey will walk the audience through overviews of these technologies as well as examples of their use in real-world applications. You'll also see sneaks of unreleased new technologies currently in development including the "Thermo" project and the next release of Flash Professional. More...
Keynote: The Web Platform
The web is becoming more and more tightly meshed. Building applications from services around the web is common place. With the web as "platform" your application is more hub than silo. More...
Demystifying Information Architecture
There is much confusion and ignorance regarding information architecture (IA) and it's place in web design. Many developers, like their design counterparts, are operating under misconceptions, hearsay and indeed disinformation. Because of this, many feel threatened by some 'usability guy' telling them what to do. More...
What's new and cool in the Google Maps API?
The Google Maps JavaScript API helped kickstart the mashup concept and continues to go from strength to strength. This session will introduce the latest additions, including integrated local business search, street level panoramas, Google Earth integration with KML, and lightweight maps for low bandwidth sites and mobile devices. More...
Adobe User Group: Code War! (And Early Registration)
All comers welcome -- no ticket required. State Champions, seven short programming challenges, two projectors, loud crowd.. mildly impressive prizes.
Connections Bar at Crowne Plaza Darling Harbour from 6pm More...
SPECIAL EVENT: Kingpin Bowling Lounge
Starting 7:30pm till late - join us for an industry networking event like no other. Leave your high heels at home boys & girls, flat shoes are required. Bowl with webDU's best, test your skill against Daemon's pool champion Matt Bryant, and laser skirmish till your eyes bleed. Or keep up your heels in the relative calm of the VIP lounges.
Must bring your webDU Lanyard to get past security! More...