Things that made me happy this morning:

• An interesting Nielsen research on iPhone vs. Android
• Jason Fried on hiring in never read another resume (part of Rework if I remember correctly).
• PHP is 15 years old – and a day
• woe db is another visualisation of the GeoPlanet Data data much like the GeoPlanet Explorer
• How an engineer folds a T-Shirt is a good use for an old cardboard box
• Dr. Watson can teleport – at least in the latest Sherlock Holmes game.
• Things Romanian senators watch on their laptops – FAIL - you got to love his face when he detects the camera
• Marca has a very cool Worldcup 2010 visualisation
• Talking of the world cup, Google has a nice easter egg – any search related to the cup has a Goooooal! instead of “Gooooooogle” above the pagination links.
• Norwegian Ninja could beat Chuck Norris
• My Fronteers talk video is out – learn about Hamsters, feature creatures and missed opportunities
• Everyone dials in can make phone conferences of distributed teams much less confusing
• Good tutorial on creating an iPhone optimised web site with jQTouch
• A simple introduction to E4X – great for YQL open tables
• NASA allows you to put your face in space – win, despite the cheesy launch sequence.
• The Protovis primer is a good introduction to this JavaScript visualisation library
• If San Francisco crime were elevation is an awesome visualisation – scary, too.
• Vanity is an A/B testing framework for Rails
• IMified is a IM posting framework for your scripts
• If you want lightning fast PHP, check out PHP-FPM + NGINX + APC

I am currently at Launch48 in London – a weekend for entrepreneurs and startups to network, get inspired and come up with a new business in 48 hours. I will be here tomorrow for a more in-depth mentoring sessions but today I was asked to give a 15 minute presentation on scaling products. So I’ve put together a short deck on the train over (I arrived yesterday night at 1am from SWDC) and here it is:

• Audio recording of the talk – MP3 6.41MB

The resources I talked about:

• Amazon S3
• Amazon EC2
• Google App Engine
• Joyent
• Microsoft BizSpark
• Winter Olympic Medals
• Guardian data set on Winter Olympic Medals
• Yahoo YQL
• Yahoo Design Patterns
• Yahoo Grids Builder
• Yahoo User Interface Library
• Yahoo Exceptional Performance
• Yahoo YSlow

I am currently at the Scandinavian Web Developer Conference in Stockholm, Sweden (flying back to Blighty tonight) and gave the final talk of the first day yesterday. In a fire and brimstone sermon I complained about how as web developers we do far too much navel gazing and play with our technologies building prototypes to impress each other rather than solutions for real end users.

In the talk I show how you can use progressive enhancement without doubling your efforts but instead build things that work for everybody.

The slides

The audio

• Progressing and enhancing MP3 - 15MB
• Progressing and enhancing OGG - 20MB

The resources

• Warwickshire government data mashup – (source code warwickshire) – (screencast warwickshire)
• Flickrcollector – (source code flickrcollector) – (screencast Flickrcollector)

The evil masterplan

One of the things I speak about in the talk is a social engineering and devious plan to get rid of Internet Explorer 6 called the Amelie approach – read up and become part of the solution.