I am right now writing a primer on web security for a blog and doing my research on passwords I came across The Telegraph’s article Almost 16 million use same password for every website, study finds is actually full of cool figures and I was very tempted to use some quotes like: The average internet […]

As you know if you come here often, I am a very prolific writer and churn out blog posts and articles very quickly. Some people asked me how I do that – especially as they want to take part in Project 52. Well, here is how I approach writing a new post/article: Step 1: Find […]

Well it is the beginning of 2010 so time to talk about some resolutions. As I am planning to get a lighter laptop to lug around my main resolution will go down from 1400×900 to 1280×800 – unless Apple will change that for the new 13”. My place is a mess – the reason is […]

I guess it is a nice case of the squeaky wheel getting the oil… After complaining on twitter about smashing magazine overdoing the “list posts” – you know “543 jQuery plugins you really need” and “3214 ways to create drop-shadows” I was now asked to become one of the writers for the magazine. I’ve always […]

Ok, using YQL and playing around with the console can make you go a bit too far. A few days ago and in response to my 24 ways article on YQL my friend Jens Grochtdreis asked me how to get the thumbnails and some other data from the Slideshare site in one YQL request. He […]