Just a quick reminder that there are still lots of spaces left for the Open Hack Day in New York city on the 9th and 10th of October. Much like Yahoo’s other open hack days you’ll get 24 hours time to play with any API and built something amazing with people you always wanted to […]

Last week I was (for a change) back in London to give my first keynote for a conference. Accessibility 2.0, the conference by AbilityNet brought people to hear all about the marvels of accessibility in the modern web world. To comply with Murphy’s law I arrived late for my own keynote. Here’s what happened: I […]

Gestern war ich in Duesseldorf um bei der diesjaehrigen Best of Accessibility in meinem Vortrag “Barrierefreiheit im Netz der Daten” ein paar der Mythen ueber das Thema zu verwerfen und hoffentlich den Teilnehmern der Konferenz ein paar Ideen zu geben. Da mein Leben derzeit hauptsaechlich aus Reisen besteht kam ich direkt von Flughafen zu meinem […]

Monday I was in Madrid for a developer evening at ETSI Telecomunicacion. The hosting university had a very cool auditorium, but what really amazed me was that it is in part a museum for telecommunication which means the whole building was full of old comms hardware – something I really dig. Anyways, my talk for […]

Things that made me happy this morning: Google’s Alex Russel released Chrome Frame, a way to embed Google Chrome into any Internet Explorer 6 as a plugin without having to uninstall the old browser. As explained in the more technical details article it is implemented as a Browser Helper Object, uses IE’s cookies, history and […]