With my chapter for the upcoming Smashing Book 4 done and talking about “The Vanilla Web Diet” and some workshops in the making I thought it is a good idea to show in an example how to make a seemingly good solution better by rethinking it with the principles of the vanilla web diet in […]

I just got asked to provide a few answers for a survey amongst “mobile web experts” and thought it’d be good to re-use those here. So here goes: What is the difference between a web site and a web application? There are a few differences. On a very basic level applications are catered for doing […]

A few days ago a vertical video went viral of the student Jeff Bliss telling his teacher off for being a bad teacher who just hands out materials without explaining anything. And we all applauded him for his gall and his eagerness to learn and to point out the obvious flaws in the education system. […]

As developers we are incredibly lucky. We work in a very growing and immensely well paid market, our companies shower us with benefits, companies offer us jobs rather than having to send out hundreds of CVs on the off-chance and even the mass media and politicians start talking about “coding” being a skill everybody needs. […]

Back in November my colleague Robert Nyman wrote about a word that annoys him. I like that. I think our day to day online conversations are full of little misunderstandings and knowing what ticks someone off or brings up weird connotations is a good thing. So I thought I should quickly write this bit here. […]