Things that made me happy this morning: Venturebeat release the ugly truth about your favourite social networks Matthew Somerville has a great ideas generator to use in your next pitch Apparently sleepwalking dogs and walls don’t mix An awesome mashup of crayons and pixel art A list of incredible conceptual designs you wish existed We […]

I just came across a mind-boggling “ghost in the machine” style problem in Firefox: if you use window.sun or function sun() in JavaScript you effectively start the Java VM. As explained in this article on doctype There are a few “magic” properties on Mozilla’s DOMWindow interface for supporting LiveConnect that will initialize the Java plugin […]

Things that made me happy this morning: Working for Lego is every kid’s dream. If you look at their ‘business cards’ you know why Matt Snider has information about an Apache Ant script to consolidate CSS and JavaScript in a build process – seems to be loosely connected with the work Julien Lecomte has done […]

One thing that drives me up the wall is the inertia that happens in the accessibility world. We do our best to keep the web development world aware of accessibility concerns but in the other direction I just don’t see much drive to even understand the basic principles of web design. My favourite example is […]

Things that made me happy this morning: Christopher Blizzard of Mozilla showing off a motion tracking example in pure JavaScript – just imagine the opportunities for interfaces. Move forward and backward in a playlist or carousel by moving your hand in front of the screen! A good roundup of Firebug tricks and use cases Marco’s […]