I am honoured to have been invited back this year again to do a talk to final year multimedia students at Edith Cowan University, entitled ‘Getting started in the Web Industry‘. Thanks to Joe Luca who invited me along, and the students who took some of their afternoon out to hear me discuss ways to get a job in the Perth web industry.

I’m sure most of the students have heard the old talks about presentation and networking one hundred times before, but I’m hoping hearing it from an industry perspective, instead of just a lecturer, might mean that it drives the knowledge further to them. That, and the fact I managed to put images of robots, nudity, graffiti and lolcat speak all in one 22 slide presentation, should do the trick.

I’ve uploaded the slides to slideshare.net. You can see them over here. In a first (for me at least) these slides and this post were not only prepared, but uploaded prior to the presentation, and basically ‘went live’ whilst I was still speaking, thanks to the scheduling feature in Wordpress.

Links for website mentioned in presentation;

• http://www.port80.asn.au
• http://www.webindustry.com.au
• http://www.bamwantsyou.com
• http://www.milesburke.com.au
• http://www.bam.com.au
• http://www.webindustry.asn.au

Photo’s used, other than mine (from Flickr, with CC licence);

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/denis_fox/1112069912/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/jepoirrier/349613923/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/eifion/171413582/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/lachlanhunt/254088928/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/genewolf/147722350/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/praatafrikaans/315196853/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/muchadoaboutnothing/440872101/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/drachmann/327122302/

Image: screengrab of Keynote presentation.

Over at Bam Creative, we’re after a CSS person to be involved in production of UI code. What better way to promote this fact to the masses, than to create a YouTube video and then embed it in a tables based website?

C’mon, before you complain – read the footer to understand the reasoning, and don’t forget to watch the video.

You can see what we do with our Friday lunch breaks (and get a sneak peek at our offices) by going over to www.bamwantsyou.com

Image: Screengrab from BamWantsYou.com.

They say a change is as good as a holiday. So I’m kicking into relaxation mode as I announce that this blog has up and moved over to its new location, at www.milesburke.com.au/blog/

I would encourage you to please update any links you have, and update your feed reader, etc. Apologies for the transition, however I assure you I won’t be moving again for a long time. There is currently a domain redirect in place, but I would imagine I shall retire it one day.

Next step is upgrading Wordpress and tweaking the theme. I’m thinking I’ll just take baby steps to reach this goal.

Image: Stained glass window, Sydney NSW.