I get very tired of people looking for rockstar and ninja developers. I find it arrogant and actually detrimental to the whole market of development. We are professionals and we should take our jobs serious. We should also make sure that people who start in a company don’t have to deal with a terrible mess […]

Things that made me happy this morning: Addy Osmani’s Rocket Bar looks cool but needs a bit of tweaking to be smooth and of course event throttling for IE. The idea is cool though (not sure about the site design and the “Where Web Businesses Grow” tagline, but I guess that is why I am […]

One thing Google released at the last I/O conference was hosting for custom fonts to use in web sites for browsers that support that feature. So instead of streaming the fonts from your own server you can just point to Google’s farm and be done with it. Fonts hosted by Google Google hosts a few […]

One of my real annoyances right now is that when you open a link from Google reader and some other systems you get the link followed by tracking data. Take for example the following tweet from Sam: If you click the bit.ly link it expands to this abomination: http://google-chrome-browser.com/test-your-browsers-html5-prowess-html5-test? utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter &utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Google-Chrome-Browser+%28Google+Chrome%29&utm_content=Twitter I’ve come across lots […]

Things that made me happy this morning (a lot this time as I was offline for four days and had 670 unread Google Reader items) Badass JavaScript lists a few upcoming JavaScript competitions – I can predict a lot of pointless but impressive Canvas animationsApparently Digg has been censored for years by a group of […]