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I’ve just done my Building Better Webapps presentation at the Spring Experience in Miami. I it went pretty well, as far as I can tell, but I realised that there were a whole bunch of links I wanted to give out that weren’t on the slides. For anyone who’s interested here they are, and for anyone who dragged themselves out of bed on a Sunday morning to come see me speak: Thanks, I really enjoyed it! Many thanks also to all the Spring folk who’ve made my weekend thoroughly enjoyable.

Introduction

Don’t bet against the internet

Web standards

Progressive enhancement

Graded Browser Support

A-Grade Browser Support Chart

HTML

HTML Mastery Links

CSS is Worthless

Microformats

Bill Gates: “We need microformats”

CSS

Div Mania

Modular CSS

A CSS Framework

Playing Nice with the Other CSS Kids

CSS: Specificity Wars

Specificity

How To Clear Floats Without Structural Markup

hasLayout

Javascript

A DOM Ready Extension for Prototype

The JavaScript Library World Cup

Notes on JavaScript Libraries

Javascript and Accessibility

AJAX and Screenreaders: When Can it Work?

Making Ajax Work with Screen Readers

FlashAid

Bringing new life to applets with Ajax

Web 2.0: Is Converging Towards the Desktop Good?

Unobtrusive Javascript

RailsConf Presentation Slides and Example Code

Hijax

The Enron Explorer

Who’s this bloke then? Yep, I recognise him too…

So, I’m off to Miami in December to speak at The Spring Experience! I’m excited and a little nervous. The sessions are super-long, weighing in at 90 minutes, but quite small so a workshop-type-thing might be possible, but I’ll have to wait and see. Keeping peoples’ attention for that long is a very daunting prospect.

I’d never heard of Spring (not surprising really, not being a Java programmer) until these guys contacted me but since then I’ve been seeing it everywhere. It turns out that the Trampoline guys are using it in the back-end of the app we’re currently building and some of the Wordtracker folk have used it too. I still don’t have a great handle on what it does so I’ll have to collar someone and get a proper explanation.

With all the fuss about SXSW it’s nice to see the Europeans representing: Reboot7. Everyone’s said that the most valuable part of SXSW was the conversations in the corridors between presentations and Reboot seems to be aimed squarely at exactly that - more informal debates. The list of participants is impressive as well… One to watch.