TD;TR: Converting games to HTML5 is hurting the cause. We need more games written in web technologies. OK, I might be a bit late to the party but the latest “web version” of Angry Birds, “subtly” advertising this time not itself but Wonderful Pistachios was the talk of the day on some of my mailing […]

Having pestered someone working on a large healthcare web site in the UK to release some of their browser statistics I got a tweet today that they released an infographic (available here as a PDF). The site has had over 2 million visitors in 2011 and here is what they looked for: Most went to […]

And in the “pointless but fun” section and as my preparation for the trip to Japan tomorrow for Mozilla Vision 2012 I thought it would be fun to try to create a Domo-Kun in CSS from two lists of info about it. I am sure real CSS gods like Lea Verou and Chris Coyier could […]

I am in Vancouver, Canada right now and yesterday night the Super VanJS meetup attracted around 160 people to come and see Rebecca Murphy, Robert Nyman, Jim Andrews, Preet Jassi and little me talk about all things JavaScript. My own talk was the last of the day and was an ad-libbed introduction to a few […]

Nick Bradbury (of Homesite Fame) has a great piece on hateful hiring, based on 37 signal’s ‘Why we don’t hire programmers based on riddles and parlor tricks’ and I can do nothing but applaud and agree. I find it insulting as a developer to be asked to go on a whiteboard in an interview and […]