The Brighton-based Conference d.construct has now opened for registration for the 2006 event. From the site:

d.Construct is an affordable, one-day conference aimed at those building the latest generation of web-based applications. The event discusses how new technology is transforming the web from a document delivery system into an application platform.

Tickets are comparatively cheap and there is an impressive line-up of speakers this year including Jeffrey Veen, of Google, Derek Featherstone of furtherahead, Simon Willison and Paul Hammond of Yahoo, and Jeff Barr of Amazon.

Last year the conference sold out amazingly quick, so get your CCs ready…

JavaScript is not only used in browsers – many applications start supporting it as a means to extend and script for them – the new Yahoo! Messenger 8 being one of them. (more…)

var g='';for(var i=0;i<4;i++){
g+='Happy Birthday To You';g+=(i==2)?', dear Stuart! ':'! ';
}alert(g);

Go an pester him on his blog about it.

I am proud to announce that all of you who have the new Yahoo Messenger 8 beta installed now have a bit of my code on their computer.

The Answers plug-in shown here was my first task when I joined in April and actually is nothing but a bit of HTML, CSS and JavaScript – and you could do it yourself.

Watch this space for more information…

Some people asked me at @media about detailed content of my upcoming book. So without further ado, here is the table of contents with page numbers: (more…)