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CalWac2: Advanced Topics in CSS

By kristin - 4/25/2007 - Category: css, accessibility By Jon Wiley del.icio.us/jonwiley/css - A lot of information is packed into a short amount of time. Below is an outline. Detailed information on this session can be found at www.jonwiley.com/knowbility/classes/advancedcss/index.htm

CalWac2 Notes: The Web Devlopment Toolkit: Tools and Tricks of the Trade

By kristin - 4/25/2007 By Paul Reuger. This session covered web development/QA tools (mostly Firefox extensions), streamlining the web production process, and creating a framework/styleguide for web production to support workflow and ensure that QA and accessibility testing are not overlooked.

CalWac2 Notes: JavaScript and Accessibility

By kristin - 4/25/2007 - Category: Javascript, accessibilty By Jordan Casper, www.jkdesign.org, University of Texas at Austin. Most of the session involved creating and analyzing scripts, which can be found at http://www.jkdesign.org/JS/slides/calwac_2006_ex.html

CalWac2 Notes: Testing for Accessibility

By kristin - 4/25/2007 - Category: accessibility By Jim Thatcher. Presentation slides: http://jimthatcher.com/knowbility/testing0906.html. The most important message I got from this presentation is that accessibility testing is a multi-dimensional process. You can’t assume your site is accessible by running it through an automated check. Human testing is also required.

Open Source Performance Monitoring Tools, Tips and Tricks for Java

By jarcher - 4/25/2007 On Friday I attended a session named Open Source Performance Monitoring Tools, Tips and Tricks for Java by Matt Secoske, that covered a number of different tools to help profile and monitor performance for Java applications. Some of the important issues he covered in his talk were:

Deploying Rails Apps with Capistrano

By jarcher - 4/25/2007 On Wednesday I attended a session named Deploying Rails Apps with Capistrano by Mike Clark, which introduced Capistrano, a rails application for deploying rails (and other technology) applications to multiple machines in multiple configurations. All of the configuration is done in ruby, and it's very simple to set up and to customize. The command set allows not only for deployment but also rollback of code sets, as well as data migration advances and rollbacks.

Making Tech Documentaries

By jarcher - 4/25/2007 On Friday, I attended a talk titled Making Tech Documentaries by Jason Scott.

OSS Project Press Relations

By jarcher - 4/25/2007 On Thursday I attended a session named OSS Project Press Relations by Josh Berkus, which covered a lot of excellent advice for interacting with the press if you're trying to get coverage for your open source project. In summary, Josh covers the following issues:

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