Things that made me happy this morning (well technically it is morning and the aftermath of the BBC party): ZooBorns is a blog about newly born animals in zoos around the world – instant win (via Simon Willison of course) My esteemed Austrian colleague who now moved to the valley Klaus Komenda had his university […]

Things that made me happy this morning: Paul Carr from the Guardian’s amazingly funny writeup of LeWeb. But I’m not being entirely fair to LeWeb. Not all of the speakers were dull (some were just batshit weird) Earlier this week, just before the start of LeWeb, Lord Drayson, Britain’s Minister for Science and Innovation, announced […]

Yesterday I wrote a blog post on YDN about opening the web covering curl, pipes and YQL and today I did a more detailed deep-dive on Ajaxian about how YQL can help you to convert the web to JSON. Suffice to say, I like YQL a lot – it is the command line interface to […]

Things that made me happy this morning: The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Mark 2 are finally officially available only 8 years later! Theres a rather cool CSS3 test suite for browsers available now My perfect job has been advertised (except for the pay) You can learn a lot in Las Vegas, even Good Web Design […]

Chris Brogan has put together a nice to-do list on how to start speaking at events and there’s some great information in there (some of which I am not doing yet, but will start soon). Right now I am a “international developer evangelist” which is a nice title but sadly enough does not come with […]