Web Forms 2.0 Working Draft

August 25th, 2006 — Web, Web standards

I’m very behind on my readings, so I only came across this yesterday at work - the W3C have announced that the First Public Working Draft of Web Forms 2.0 is now available.

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LiveJournal Crossposter

August 19th, 2006 — Blog

The LiveJournal Crossposter is a great plugin for Wordpress that copies new posts over to a specified LiveJournal (or other LiveJournal-based hosts). I used it for the first time yesterday, and it’s dead easy to install and use. Came across this plugin, thanks to Skit.

The best thing is that any edits to posts that have been cross posted will be replicated to your LiveJournal.

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End of one era

August 18th, 2006 — Life

So today is my last day (and also a friend’s - Caronne - last day) at one particular organisation where I’ve spent a significant portion of my time over the last few years. In that time:

  • I’ve had my eyes opened to political intrigues
  • Watched with great interest the myriad of human behaviours and interaction
  • Developed into the extremely passionate-about-accessibility-and-usability person that I am today
  • Researched, developed and maintained user interface standards (and the associated challenges that the whole process brings)
  • Met a lot of interesting people (within and also external to the organisation)
  • Run lots of interesting usability sessions
  • Facilitated many collaborative design sessions
  • Start my Human-Computer Interaction course at University of Queensland
  • Helped integrate the user centred design methodology into current practices (still quite a way to go though)
  • Lots of relationship building with various people
  • Ate lots of cake and sweets (I can’t keep away from team morning teas)
  • Did lots of fascinating User Centred Design “stuff”!

Flowers from the team

I was farewelled with a box of gorgeous flowers, a card with lovely words from many people, and Seasons One and Two of Little Britain (one of my favourite comedy series). Headed out to the B Bar in Kingston with couple of work mates from varying teams. I enjoyed some delicious cocktails (I love cocktails), got enjoyably tipsy and said random mushy stuff to my UCD team mates.

I was really pleased to see the turn out, and really appreciated the effort that people put in to make it (some had to drive out from a different part of Canberra). It gave me lots of warm fuzzies - a good way to end an era.

Good bye old organisation! Hello new organisation!

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