And the second year of OSCON Austin, as always was a great conference but certainly and noticeably smaller then any OSCON I had attended before, this was a sentiment I heard shared by many. I am not sure exactly if you could say it was one contributing factor, because there was many at play. It seems the Austin location has done wonders at promoting Open Source through the wider Austin tech scene, however there is…
Another year and another great WordCamp Brisbane, and each year has just gotten better. The community is so welcoming and the organisers will put that extra effort in to ensure the event is inclusive and peoples needs are catered for. I really enjoyed the talks on testing and testing pipelines, there was also an interesting talk on the proposal for a WordPress plugin quality check/confirmation. The Saturday drinks where great and a fantastic networking event,…
I was happy to be able to make Joomla Day Australia this year after missing the previous years. Joomla is a CMS I have been building with since its inception, and I am quite proud to say that I witnessed its departure from Mambo and its bloom into Joomla 😀 This year I was giving a talk on my favourite Joomla topic, Accessibility. These days I am not as active in the Joomla codebase as…
I found myself back in Seattle just in time for SeaGL 😀 I have wanted to attend this conference for awhile as it is one of the few grass roots Open Source / FLOSS conferences left in America. It certainly did not disappoint, the feeling of the conference was very community based, and all about you the attendee and celebrating an Open Culture. As always it was good to see friends and have some late…
Once again I found myself back at the amazing DevWorld for a second year running, thanks for the wonderful team for asking me to speak as always was an absolute pleasure. The talk I gave was around IOS and accessibility features that developers can take advantage of when building apps. I tried to make the talk technical enough without going into too much code detail, I am finding it hard to convey the needed information…
JavaScript meet-up Sydney decided to have an event focused on accessibility, and I got an email to give a talk. The timing could not have been better as I had been recently working on retrofitting polymer and react codebases for WCAG compliance. This lead to many many many nights of going down rabbit holes and playing with shadow dom and shady dom across different browsers and screen readers. So the timing was perfect \O/ The…