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TTMMHTM: Chrome for IE, 3D for Safari and Firefox, NES for JS and accessibility and an open internet for all

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

Things that made me happy this morning:

All the tools you need to get ready for “talk like a pirate” day

Thursday, September 17th, 2009

Avast! Saturday is the annual talk like a pirate day and my colleague Tom Croucher has done a tremendous job to create a YQL solution for translation of English to Pirate

In essence he used YQL to store a translation data set and allows us to alter it using the update and storage parts of YQL. He has come up with a few great things to use for talk like a pirate day:

A script to include into any page that will automatically convert it to pirate speak:

 

A bookmarklet to translate any web site: piratize (drag it to your links toolbar).

An open YQL table to add to the pirate dictionary.

Using this, I built the following interfaces:

Have a great talk like a pirate day! Sadly enough I’ll be Aarrr-ing down from a plane as I am flying back to the UK on that date.

JavaScript and Webservices – my talk at the Ajax Experience Boston 2009

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

I am currently at the Ajax Experience conference in Boston, MA and yesterday I had my hour of fame giving my talk about “JavaScript and Web Services”. Here are the slides and the audio recording of my talk.

You can also check the audio recording of the talk at archive.org

In the talk I covered the change from the old web of documents and pages to a web of data, how we should liberate ourselves from browser restrictions when playing with technology and how YQL allows you to easily remix the web and use JavaScript on the command line with all kind of fancy options that you don’t have in browsers.

Resources mentioned are:

Shipping out to Boston – Ajax Experience and brownbag at your place?

Friday, September 11th, 2009

I just came back from a quick holiday (4 days offline, 810 emails and endless stuff in Google reader) so please bear with me if you sent me a message the last few days. Tomorrow I am off to the US again to go to Boston:

The actual reason of course is the Ajax Experience and I tacked a few days after the conference on to be able to visit our Yahoo offices in Cambridge and maybe come around to your company to give a brownbag session. So if you are in the area comment here, or ping me on Twitter – I am @codepo8. Tomorrow I will be in the air but from them on I am in the hotel of the conference.

Yay for east coast!

Chris

Introduction to W3C widgets – my presentation at Brighton Barcamp 4

Sunday, September 6th, 2009

This saturday I went down to Brighton to attend the fourth Brighton Barcamp. As you are supposed to give a talk and PPK had stopped over on his way to the airport I thought the time right to give a talk about what I learnt about W3C widgets working with PPK and Vodafone the last few weeks:

  • Whilst W3C widgets are nothing groundbreakingly new, they allow you to use web technologies (CSS, HTML, JS) on lots and lots of mobile phones
  • The main idea about a widget is not what technology you use but how useful the end product is. My submission for the summer of widgets competition is neither a visual nor a technical masterpiece, but it still won a weekly prize because of its usefulness.
  • W3C Widgets are a great opportunity to bring our web development skillsets to a new market and break into a very closed environment
  • It is a lot of fun to build them, as you are not tethered by bad browser implementations and you can use clever things in your JavaScript

Check out the slidecast on SlideShare:

The audio quality is not the best mainly because of the location (in the basement) and Simon Willison delivering a very loud talk about 5 meters down the hall.

You can also get the audio recording – 17MB MP3 from archive.org