At the Fronttrends2010 conference Tantek Çelik spent the last few minutes of his HTML5 talk praising HTML as a great format for presentations and urged people for the good of the open web to use HTML slide systems instead of Flash or PDF. Other presenters right now write awesome CSS3 driven slide shows and build […]

Going through my RSS feeds this morning I found this Ninja name translation table: I thought that was a perfect candidate for a YQL table, so I made one. So find out your Ninja name in the YQL console. Conversion was easy – simply convert the table to a hash, check that the user has […]

OK it is time to end the cruelty of the cliff-hanger. As mentioned yesterday, today I shall reveal the identity of my new employer. I left clues – videos of people with Dinosaurs and some CSS geekery: #chris{ —moz—position:relative;display:inline } So yes, this is it, to say it with (mock) YQL: insert into mozilla (employee) […]

YQL is great, it is a technology that turns the web into a database and allows you to mix and match and filter before writing your first line of code. It also allows you to release an API without any infrastructure, knowledge of authentication and access control. In essence you can use Yahoo’s server infrastructure […]

Last week I handed in my notice at Yahoo to leave them for pastures new. I’ve been with the company for almost 5 years (which would have given me a gumball machine) and I have to say that I do not regret a single moment. So yeah, I quit! Anybody for a Hot Piece of […]