A few days ago, Simon Willison vented on Twitter about one of the things that annoyed me about YQL, too: The interesting thing about this is that it is not a YQL bug – instead it is simply a problem of generic code and data conversion. The problem with YQL JSON results Let’s have an […]

Researching something on the web can be pretty annoying. Search engines get better every year, but there is a whole world of social sites that are not indexed. For example if I search for a nice photo of a red panda I use Google image search. If I want to use this photo later on […]

There were some interesting conversations around the lettering.js jQuery plugin on Twitter today. The thing that lettering.js does for you is to turn a text into a series of SPANS with automatically numbered classes to give you a handle to style them: Some Title S o m e T i t l e Now there […]

Lanyrd is a cool new web site to organise the events you go to and speak at. The thing that is missing right now is a badge to show off your upcoming events on your own web site as requested by Dan Rubin: The team is working on it but in the meantime you can […]

Today I spoke at the ThinkVitamin JavaScript online conference alongside Simon Willison, Stuart Landgridge and Drew McLellan. Topic and slides My topic was “Maintainable JavaScript” and I managed to pack 150 slides into the 50 minutes of my talk. The Slides are available on Slideshare. Maintainable Javascript carsonifiedView more presentations from Christian Heilmann. What I […]