I’ve said it a few times before, but I love Slideshare. For a professional speaker like me it is a great way to share my decks and get feedback from people allowing them to re-use. The thing that some people complained about is that the embed is Flash based and as we all know Flash […]

For years I have been advocating the benefits of progressive enhancement as a safeguard to deliver working code to the world. In this – my final public talk as a full-time Yahoo employee – I talk about the why and how of progressive enhancement. I take a look at examples from the real world and […]

I am currently at YUIConf in Sunnyvale, California to learn lots about YUI3, Node.js and YQL straight from the horse’s mouth. Yesterday I gave my first talk on using YQL in a sensible manner – coming from using webservices in JavaScript up to using localstorage to speed up your apps and keep state for your […]

The other day I logged into Paypal and was confronted with the following sight: That was the end of breakfast for me but I was also excited – I like the idea of winning a year’s salary and I had to buy a mouse for a friend of mine anyway. Normally I would go to […]

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 […]