Helping out people with giving their first public presentations can be frustrating. The reason is the misconception that we have based on years of conditioning in school and corporate environments that a good presentation stands and falls with the slide deck. Of course a beautiful slide deck is a nice thing to have and allows […]

Google just announced that on 1st of July 2013 they will shut down Google Reader as a service. Just like that. The reasons are meager: There are two simple reasons for this: usage of Google Reader has declined, and as a company we’re pouring all of our energy into fewer products. We think that kind […]

I just finished a talk at another “developer conference” which is a side-attraction at a larger trade show and decided that this was the last one of those that I will do. The reason is that I’ve done a few of them, and they’ve always been a disappointment to me. Of course there are great […]

I just got back from CeBIT in Germany which hosted the Mooseconf developer conference. My part of the show was to give a talk about Firefox OS and what it means to HTML5. I gave that talk twice, once in the morning for a closed audience of developers and a repeat in the afternoon for […]

This was my closing keynote talk of the first day of jQuery Europe 2013 in Vienna, Austria. The slide deck is here. Sadly, due to technical issues there is no audio or video recording. As developers, we seem to be hardwired to try to fix things. And once we managed something, we get bored with […]