The other day, we (committee of The Australian Web Industry Association) announced our latest event, Ideas5.

To be held at the Melbourne Hotel on Wed 22 April 2009, the event is expected to draw a reasonable crowd, to hear from two experts about the W3C recommendation of WCAG2.0, as well as hear about accessibility issues, particularly around the Adobe PDF format. Then there’s the free food and cash bar for further enticement.

A big thanks for our two speakers, Andrew Downie and Roger Hudson, who are travelling from Sydney to speak at this event, our sponsors, who help offset the costs of these events, as well as the committee, all volunteers who work tirelessly behind the scenes to bring these events to Perth.

If you work on the web, and pride yourself on accessibility, then you’ll want to attend this one. The full details are on the Ideas5 page. I encourage you to grab a ticket now, and support these great events.

I hope to see you there!

On Wednesday night, approximately 80 web people came to the sophisticated new upstairs bar at the Flying Scotsman, Mt Lawley, to celebrate Christmas with Port80, at our official Perth Port80 Christmas Soiree, and to also celebrate the launch of The Principles of Successful Freelancing. Thanks to everyone who showed up, and I apologise that we ran out of books so quickly.

The feedback from everyone was great, both on the event and my book, and a huge thanks to everyone who bought the book!

Today, I’m pleased to announce that SitePoint have now started taking orders for the book, which will be officially launched next week on SitePoint.com. Read about the book over here, and then head to the pre-order page to grab a copy (Oh, and if you’re in Perth, bring your copy to a Port80 meeting, and I’ll happilly sign it for you as well).

When you buy the book, not only do you get a 30 day money back guarantee, but you can also get free shipping anywhere, if you buy more than just this one book. Have a look at some of the other great SitePoint titles.

Image: Photo from Wednesday, by Gary Barber.