Things that made me happy this morning (already adjusting my time to India, where I am flying tomorrow): PacMan the text adventure Apparently TweetEffect is now a startup – time to get some VC people in? Being a missionary in space is impossible according to NASA research. This is interesting as all the things produced […]

Building TweetEffect taught me a few lessons and also pointed out some annoyances when building with third party APIs. Above all, I had to re-think and violate some of the best practices I’ve been advocating for years now. First of all, TweetEffect was meant to be a demo for a university hack day and I […]

Things that made me happy this morning: Google now has an Ajax API Playground which allows you to play interactively with all their APIs. Great stuff! Infovore has some good advice for journalists – learn to think like a coder Paul Bucheit shows that you can communicate with code if you are not happy to […]

Things that made me happy this morning: Rey Bango of Mozilla improving his JavaScript experience and pimping my book TweetEffect being business news in Japan AMC showing ‘The Prisoner’ for free on the web – but not in the UK (or via VPN)! Finally a good guide to Database development A free Science Fiction Audio […]

There are so many things in my daily feed that made me happy today, I had to categorise them: Work and colleagues – education + accessibility Inspiring University students to have a go at hacking and using APIs to build apps that make a change in their lives Friend and associate Dirk Ginader publishing his […]