OK, during an IRC session the benevolent overlord of the MDN documentation, Sheppy asked me to help him with making the MDN docs look more awesome with breakouts where the heading is turned 90 degrees. In essence, what we want is this: The above version should be for browsers that support CSS rotation and the […]

Here’s the good news: we, those who promoted open web standards, have won! The web of today uses less and less closed technology and plugins and HTML, CSS and JavaScript are the tools used to create a lot of great web experiences. For example nearly nobody uses Flash for a simple image gallery and more […]

When bad things happen, people look for a scapegoat. When a government is threatened it tries to analyse what happened and find a quick solution that gives people hope and shows them that those “up there” are in control and can protect us from evil. In the last few days the United Kingdom burnt, got […]

This morning I was invited to the ITV offices in London, England to give a bit of information about hackdays, running them and participating in them. ITV are planning a big internal hack day and wanted to know what mistakes to avoid. The slides are available on Slideshare: Notes: What makes developers happy? Delivering somethingGetting […]

Things that made me happy this morning (much like this wombat) The current landscape of social mediaWhy not offer some grammar tests as a CAPTCHA (yes it will weed out all the YouTube commenters)These Tetris cushions might be a scam – if you arrange them the right way they vanish and you got to buy […]