We just had an interesting meeting here discussing plans of how to provide translations of our documentations in different languages. I am a big fan of documentation and have given several presentations talking about the why and how of good docs. In essence the “good code explains itself” talk is a big fat arrogant lie. […]

Yahoo Finance just released “the new (accessible) currency converter”:http://finance.yahoo.com/currency-converter done by my colleagues Artur Ortega and Dirk Ginader. It is a perfect example of how accessible does not mean boring. Rich interactions – screen reader compatible Firefox 3.05 comes with some new cool accessibility features fixing focusing issues Our Dumb World – the Onion’s Atlas […]

I am right now in Santa Clara, California for the end of the year wrap-up and planning sessions of the Yahoo Developer Network. One thing I am realizing is that it is very tough to measure the success or really the impact of what an evangelist does. As my company does not have any commercial […]

Two weeks ago I went to Sweden to attend a geek meet and give a workshop at bwin. I didn’t know that me coming to Sweden was big news, but apparently this was the case and the people at creuna organized some interviews with me – one with the Internet World (still to be published) […]

Things that made me happy this morning (just a few cause I am on my way to the airport – Sunnyvale, California for a week) The Benny Hillifier because every YouTube video gets much better by adding the Benny Hill theme An interesting hosted development environment in JavaScript for Freebase Urban Knitting – we are […]