YQL is a very cool tool to extract data from HTML documents on the web. Let’s face facts: HTML is a terrible data format as far too many documents out there are either broken, have a wrong encoding or simply are not structured the way they should be. Therefore it can be quite a mess […]

Some time ago I asked people on twitter if I should start writing about my travel experiences here in addition to the technical info I am giving. As my job right now consists mostly of traveling it would be fun to give some very personal insights about what you can do where. So here goes. […]

In a few hours Web Directions East in Tokyo will kick off with a Pecha Kucha presentation night. This means that every speaker gets to show 20 slides in 20 seconds each (I first thought the whole presentation was 20 seconds) and it is all good fun and speedy. Here are my slides that I […]

Another reason to love Twitter: You ask for APIs and you get them. As requested in my Tweet, speaker rate acted very quickly and build an API for latest comments – and here is my thank you. Using a bit of YQL magic and some JavaScript I put together a badge to show off the […]

When I released the developer evangelism handbook it was quite a success but a lot of people asked for a print version. I’ve asked a few publishers if they are interested but the common consensus was either “too short” or “too niche”. I’d be happy to prove them wrong so I used Lulu.com for publishing […]