http://markmeeker.com Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:56:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last year at this time, A List Apart performed the first ever widespread survey of the web design/development industry. They openly published the results and it was a great way to get a read on our growing industry. So go and take the survey, I did! http://markmeeker.com/2008/07/31/take-the-survey/ The UI Engineering team at Orbitz is growing again, and we are looking for experienced developers to join the team. The team itself is responsible for developing some of the top online travel sites worldwide, including Orbitz.com, CheapTickets, and our European family of sites under the ebookers umbrella. We are a ... http://markmeeker.com/2008/07/22/the-orbitz-ui-team-is-hiring/ John Slatin was a highly respected accessibility advocate and University of Texas professor who died at the end of March after a courageous three year battle with leukemia. I never had a chance to meet him personally, but I have gained a great deal from many who considered him a ... http://markmeeker.com/2008/04/14/the-john-slatin-accessibility-project/ A couple of months ago I presented a session on microformats at the Chicago office of Orbitz Worldwide. Some of my co-workers were kind enough to record it and make it available online. The session is intended to introduce microformats and to offer up some examples of where and why ... http://markmeeker.com/2008/02/29/introduction-to-microformats/ A lot is usually said about the weather in Chicago. Most of it centers around the fact we get to experience a little bit of everything -- from hot and humid summers to frigid cold winters. However, it is pretty rare to be able to experience both ends of the ... http://markmeeker.com/2008/01/29/only-in-chicago/ The weather forecast is predicting single digit temperatures around here by the end of the week. Luckily, on Wednesday I'm heading down to Florida to take part in The Spring Experience. My colleague, Michael Alford and I will be presenting on how Spring was leveraged in our next generation travel ... http://markmeeker.com/2007/12/10/heading-to-the-spring-experience/ Been busy, so I'm a little late in posting a re-cap. The US Open has ended with Federer and Henin taking the titles. Again this year I was lucky enough to spend time there during the first week of the tournament. I did manage to have tickets to see the ... http://markmeeker.com/2007/09/10/us-open-re-cap/ I'm happy to announce I will be speaking at The Rich Web Experience when it comes to San Jose in September. I expect this to be an excellent event. It is put on by the team responsible for the No Fluff Just Stuff Java Symposiums which travel around the country. ... http://markmeeker.com/2007/07/17/speaking-at-the-rich-web-experience/ This is the inaugural blog post from the train being made over my new Version EVDO card. Overall I'm really impressed. The connection is fast and the software install on the Mac was a breeze. Just plug it in and go (anywhere!). http://markmeeker.com/2007/07/13/posting-from-the-train/ After six months of using a 13 inch MacBook I've given in and upgraded to a MacBook Pro. It was a useful (albeit, expensive) experiement to see how that machine handles my day-to-day workload, but in the end I needed the screen real estate and something that stand up to ... http://markmeeker.com/2007/07/10/new-macbook-pro/