I’ve been annoyed with the plethora of articles lately showing off HTML5 vs. Flash and building actually worse solutions using open technology. Therefore I thought I’ll have a go at it myself, too. Instant rimshot is a fun site that has a button that plays a rimshot (the “babumm-tish” after a bad gag at a […]

Damn, life is good as a developer right now. The Guardian opened their data platform to the world and also built a nice explorer for the information Google IO brought us a boatload of goodies: ** We finally have an open video format with WebM which is a container based on Matroska with VP8 as […]

When I went to California last I was lucky enough to meet some friends from Google for lunch at their office and as a surprise on the way out I got a Nexus One as a present: I loved it immediately. It is a very slick phone with a real “developer touch”. This means: To […]

The Open Data Group of the lovely area of Warwickshire in England is running a hack competition right now and they ask hackers to build something cool with their data sets. I looked at the catalogue of offers and took the simple way out – I created a mashup showing you the parks, museums, schools […]

Last Friday I was up in Dublin at the Future of Web apps and gave my talk “Powerful Tools that You Need (and Probably Don’t Know About)”. I took FOWA as an opportunity to (re-)introduce the audience to some of the tools Yahoo offers and to brand the drive of developers to do everything by […]