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Jul 21 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | Add a Comment
The New York Web Standards Meetup Group will meet this Thursday (24 July 2008) at theMechanism at 7:00 pm.
Google I/O was a two day developer gathering in San Francisco, 28–28 May 2008, which covered building the next generation of Web applications with Google and open technologies.
Jeffrey Barke, senior developer and information architect at theMechanism - New York, attended and will talk about what he learned there, specifically focusing on Gears, Google App Engine and the Google Ajax APIs. Prior to the meetup, you can read a bit about his experience here and watch some of the videos he's gathered at JeffreyBarke.net.
24 July 2008 . 7:00 pm
theMechanism
440 9th Avenue 8th Floor
New York, NY 10001 [map]
RSVP now!
Please contact us if you'd like to present at the September or October meetup.
Jeffrey Barke is senior developer and information architect at theMechanism, a multimedia firm with offices in New York, London and Durban, South Africa.
Jun 24 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | Add a Comment
The New York Web Standards Meetup Group will be meeting this Thursday (26 June 2008) at theMechanism at 7:00 pm.
Adam Detrick (thestreet.com) will present "IE Root," a technique using conditional comments to target IE without making extra calls to the server or using CSS hacks.
Jeffrey Barke (theMechanism) will discuss what the WAI-ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suite) is and how to use it.
26 June 2008 . 7:00 pm
theMechanism
440 9th Avenue 8th Floor
New York, NY 10001 [map]
RSVP now!
Please contact us if you’d like to present at the September or October meetup.
Jeffrey Barke is senior developer and information architect at theMechanism, a multimedia firm with offices in New York, London and Durban, South Africa.
May 22 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | 2 comments
The New York Web Standards Meetup Group will be meeting at theMechanism on 22 May 2008 (tonight!) at 7:00 pm to discuss microformats, a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards.
Attend the meetup to learn what microformats are, why they were created, and how to use this simple technology to make data on webpages more easily indexed, searched, and cross-referenced
22 May 2008 . 7:00 pm
theMechanism
440 9th Avenue 11th Floor
New York, NY 10001 [map]
Please contact us if you’d like to present at the July or August meetup.
Jeffrey Barke is senior developer and information architect at theMechanism, a multimedia firm with offices in New York, London and Durban, South Africa.
Apr 29 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | Add a Comment
Thanks to John Resig, I just heard about WAI-ARIA, which, "defines a way to make Web content and Web applications more accessible to people with disabilities. It especially helps with dynamic content and advanced user interface controls developed with Ajax, HTML, JavaScript, and related technologies" (WAI-ARIA Overview).
At the moment, I don't know anything about ARIA, but, according to John, it's currently implemented in Firefox 2 and will be supported to a greater degree in Firefox 3. I was also impressed to learn that the Google Reader team has recently added full ARIA support to their application.
So it seems that learning about ARIA is the thing to do and I intend to speak about my findings at the June meeting of the New York Web Standards meetup group.
Jan 28 | Posted by Dave Fletcher | Add a Comment
theMechanism is excited to launch our newest podcast series: barKode.
While our other podcast, theMechcast focuses on group discussions, barKode (partially named after the last name of our Senior Developer in New York, Jeffrey Barke [note the wry use of his last name barKe in the title]) will be focused on educational web design and standards-based talks, including those delivered at the The New York Web Standards Meetup Group. The first episode of barKode is called, “Web Mapping Part One–Google Maps Tutorial” where Jeffrey Barke, Senior Developer at theMechanism, leads a two-part discussion on web mapping in general and Google Maps in particular. Part Two will be on February 21st at 6:30 at the New York Creative Bunker.
You can subscribe and enjoy future episodes of barKode at feedburner.
