My esteemed colleague Luke Crouch put together an interesting piece entitled Packaged HTML5 Apps – are we emulating failure which resonates quite well with me. In it he describes the process of scanning a QR code on a phone to check into a restaurant with Facebook. This right now involves installing a QR code reader, […]

Online piracy is a terrible thing. It is illegal. It does kill jobs and it does prevent products from being released and artists from becoming famous and being able to make a living. This is the truth, although when you hear it from labels and the film industry and seeing what is being promoted and […]

I just spent 10 hours on a plane, watching movies and some presentations and thinking about the web, or, to be more precise, our work environment as web developers. Two things triggered this: watching the remake of Total Recall and watching the first two talks of the Full Frontal conference. Let’s start with the talks. […]

Here is a quick idea about making mediaqueries not only apply styles according to certain criteria being met, but also loading the resources needed on demand. You can check a quick and dirty screencast with the idea or just read on. Mediaqueries are very, very useful things. They allow us to react to the screen […]

You might have seen the big splash Sencha landed today with their Fastbook HTML5 demo showing that using HTML5, CSS and JavaScript you can make a damn responsive version of Facebook. You can see the demo on Vimeo: All the details are in their post “The Making of Fastbook – an HTML5 love story“. I […]