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Date: Thursday 02 August, 2007

Event Details

The Great Webate #1

August 2nd sees the first in a series of mini-debates for Melbourne's web industry.

Come along to see developers and designers alike fight it out in a war of webby words and wits!

The Topics

There are three short debates planned for the evening, ranging from the technical to the trivial:

Ajax Is The Future Of The Web
Online Social Networking Is Indispensable
Tables Still Have A Place In Web Page Layout

The Rules

Each debate will comprise teams of two.
Each debate will last for only 12 minutes, with each speaker permitted only 3 minutes to make their case.
The winning team will be determined by the audience

It's guaranteed to be an evening that both educates and entertains!

The Debaters

Paul Annesley

Paul Annesley is a web application developer at SitePoint, where he spends his days hammering best practice design into the likes of PHP, MySQL and XHTML. After participating in the meticulous rebuild of SitePoint's CMS, Paul is now flat out rebuilding the SitePoint Marketplace and Design Contests on the same shiny new framework.

Priscilla Brice-Weller

Priscilla Brice-Weller has worked for years in the not-for-profit sector of the Web, in Melbourne and London, at organisations such as Oxfam Australia and, more recently, the national grassroots organisation, ANTaR.

Priscilla is one of the organisers for Melbourne's WSG (Web Standards Group), the vice-president for WIPA (Web Industry Professionals Association), and she volunteers for MACCAWS (Making A Commercial Case for Adopting Web Standards).

She writes regularly about online campaigning at her blog, Solidariti.

James Edwards

James Edwards (aka brothercake) works as a front-end web developer, specialising in advanced JavaScript programming and accessible web site development.

He is an outspoken advocate of standards-based development, an active member of WaSP (The Web Standards Project), and creator of the Ultimate Drop Down Menu system — the first commercial DHTML menu to be WCAG compliant. James was also co-author of The JavaScript Anthology, published by SitePoint in 2006.

Andrew Krespanis

Andrew is a highly opinionated web geek who never selects the third star in a 5 star rating system.

Gian Sampson-Wild

Comments

Posted: 03-Aug-07 by Paul Annesley

Tables are dead.
Ajax is dead.

Posted: 03-Aug-07 by Matthew Magain

See Kev's thoughts on the debates here: http://www.sitepoint.com/newsletter/viewissue.php?id=3&issue=170&format=html