I am currently tech-reviewing a book that is used in educational environments (schools, universities, corporate training) on HTML5, CSS and JavaScript, or – in short – web development. And needless to say I am pretty shocked by what is taught in schools on that subject. It annoys me that the first materials new learners get […]

A few weeks ago was Highland Fling, a conference in Scotland organised and run by a very enthusiastic person, Alan White. I spoke twice at that event in the past and one thing I loved most about it was how it handled the Q&A of the audience. The issues with Q&A After-talk Q&A is always […]

Every time I come across tweets about browser stats I get a bit twitchy. First of all because they always try to paint a picture in one direction or another but mostly as I am not sure about the data they are based on. What are the sources? Whenever there is talk about browser stats […]

Things that made me happy this morning: The incredibly useful JSFiddle wants to become even better and asks for your opinion by filling out a questionairePeter-Paul Koch released a handbook for conference organisersThe Insidious Evils of ‘Like’ Culture is a great article dealing with the dangers of caring too much about feedbackA pretty cool list […]

Lately I’ve been playing a lot with canvas and video and see what can be done with it to do things that are tough to do to videos on your own computers. One thing I found really annoying is that it is tough to do screen grabs of videos. In the past it was impossible […]