WDC2011 is approaching

October is defiantly conference season for me, with the PHPNW conference at the start of the month and now WDC towards the end.

The Web Developers Conference is aimed at both professionals and students, and focuses on the front end side of web development.

The schedule has now been released, and the speakers have been known for a while, there are a couple of well-known speakers that will be there so I’m really looking forward to this and hopefully learning a few things front end related , as a PHP developer that’s where my skills aren’t so strong.

Tickets are still available at a very reasonable £50 for the days festivities, and will be entering a Late Bird stage at the start of October, so get your tickets now to avoid disappointment if they sell out or go past your budget! Various discount codes are floating around on Twitter if you need one, or just ask one of the speakers if you’re struggling.

You can find out more information on the conference website http://webdevconf.com/

saving data with localStorage

I read an interesting article on hacks.mozilla.org the other day that I thought a few people may be interested in.
Its about a new DOM function, part of the Web Storage specification, that allows you to store data on a users local system.

Its written by Jeff Balogh, part of the Mozilla web development team
Link : http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/06/localstorage/

hacks.mozilla.org is a site full of guides and demo’s of the new features that can be found in Firefox 3.5