SydCSS Special Event

We're moving our April event forward by a couple of weeks to celebrate this year's Respond 2015 conference (http://www.webdirections.org/respond15/). We'll also be starting a little later to give conference attendees plenty of time to make there way over to us :)

Map showing entrance to the venue: http://bit.ly/sydcss-march-venue

We'll have drinks and some light snacks at the event, so be sure to make some dinners plans with fellow SydCSSers.

Oh yeah, almost forgot... we're not telling you who is presenting... here's the overviews:

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Take your stinking paws off my design you damn dirty developers.
Mystery presenter #1

To create the best work that we can for web, it’s important that everyone involved in the design and development process has an appreciation for each others work. In this twenty-minute version of their talk, our mystery presenter will explain typographic details and why seeing typography, really seeing it, is so important.

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In praise of simplicity
Mystery presenter #2

In days of yore, Web development was a simple thing really. A bit of HTML, some CSS, perhaps a touch of JavaScript. But today, the complexity of what we are building, and (perhaps as a consequence) the complexity of our stack of technologies has grown dramatically.

Along the way it's become much harder to become a proficient developer, and to keep up with developments in our field, we've fragmented our platform, and for what?

Perhaps we've been over thinking things. In this presentation our mystery presenter argues we should focus on the simplicity of what we build, over the ease the tools we're increasingly rely on appear to bring us.

Warning, may challenge quite a few contemporary sacred cows.