Having had a lot of hackers at the Open Hack Day Brazil get confused on how to use the JavaScript output of Yahoo’s Open Search platform BOSS I’ve spent a short while to write a wrapper library for it. You can now easily search the web, images and news of Yahoo in one go with […]

I just arrived in Sao Paulo, Brazil for the upcoming Open Hack Day. The dent to my trip (and my laptop) was that someone dropped my bag on the flight over which means that my MacBook now looks like a hollywood premiere (floodlights from below): In any case, in a few minutes I am giving […]

I just finished my slides for the upcoming Paris Web Conference entitled “Working in the now”. Originally I planned to have a cool presentation showing things we will be able to use in HTML5 like native audio and video and their Flash and JavaScript equivalents that can be used right now. Then I heard even […]

I just delivered my talk on teaching, learning and writing JavaScript for use. The slides are available on slideshare below and if you don’t want to sign up, I’ve also put them up on S3. [slideshare id=695060&doc=javascripttutorialshead-1225047967659425-9&w=425] I’ve covered the different types of JavaScript consumers: Users, Tinkerers (explaining that there is nothing derogative about this […]

I was very happy this morning to see that YouTube now features the option to jump to a certain time in the video directly by adding a timestamp hash to the URL. For example: http://youtube.com/watch?v=qie-N8idatc#t=1m54s They also automatically create links from comments that mention timestamps. This all is something that I’ve been hacking into YouTube […]