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 […]

I’m just enjoying the complimentary wireless on the National Express train from Newcastle to London and uploaded the presentation I’ve given at Sunderland University to start the Hack Challenge they are giving their students. Together with Yahoo Developer Network Sunderland Uni is asking their student to spend a month to build a web application using […]