Yesterday I went to dconstruct in Brighton (thanks to Andy Budd who got me a last minute ticket) and all in all I can say it was a massive success (missing the last tube on the way home and having someone throw up next to me on the night bus was less of a success though). If you haven’t been to Brighton, go now, it is simply a beautiful quaint little town. Anyways, about dconstruct: (more…)

Just finished the first day at Barcamp London (it feels very odd to be in the office during the weekend and not working on products). I had very much fun and met some interesting new faces while hearing good presentations of seasoned presenters. My personal contribution so far was a quick talk I knocked together on the tube towards barcamp about JavaScript versus CSS and there will be a follow-up article/blog post on this soon. For now, you can download the PDF of the talk – 96KB but without the dancing and singing it is only half the fun.

I am too knackered now to write more, so stay tuned :-)

I am now on vacation till next Friday to go to Paris. No comments will make it through, but I promise to answer what accumulates.

I guess you have to take the good with the bad…

This morning I found out that there is a new issue of NET Magazine with an adequately loud mouthed orange man on the cover that features my opinion piece where I am Captain Obvious to the rescue and talk about the biggest trick in successful web development. I guess my free copy is in the mail…

My elevation of seeing my mugshot that big (No, it is not vanity that made me happy but knowing I can send this to my family and they’ll be proud as punch although they don’t know English or anything about computers) got a big dent though when I checked My book’s page on Amazon.com and found a new devastating review adding to the very positive one that’s been there for ages. I am really not sure how to react to something like that as I hate disappointing people and cannot really understand what that reviewer was on about. It is not as if there wasn’t enough material on the web to check the book before you buy it, and I spent a long time making sure that the web site for the book has all the code neatly sorted and easy for you to try out. You just cannot please anybody I guess, and I hope that not too many people get discouraged from giving the book a try. Writing a JavaScript book for beginners that does cover Ajax was a balancing act, I guess I’ll have to expect more of that.

I have my personal “Walk Like a Pirate Day” today. Somehow I managed to strain my knee on Friday and Saturday it felt bad but Sunday it felt terrible. One hour waiting in the NHS Centre later I got the amazing advice to “take some pain pills and we’ll see how it is on Friday. If it is not better, go to your GP” (for more waiting, I suppose).

All in all this leaves me with a Clouseau-worthy limp and I am tempted to go Arrrrrrr me mateys! to get a seat on the tube.