I just finished giving my presentation at the conference called Seven reasons why web development is running in circles [slideshare id=689228&doc=sevenhead-1224870102571557-8&w=425] In this presentation I was listing some of the issues that – to me – keep web development from being professional and innovative. I get the discouraging feeling following the web and several mailing […]

As requested by Josh here’s a greasemonkey script that shows if a certain user follows you on twitter by adding a (follows you) to their name on their profile page. It works – kinda. As there is no way to get a list of all the people a certain twitter user follows on one page […]

This is my last day in Bangalore, India and I am flying back tomorrow morning at 4am just to get back in time to London to attend the hosted part of the conference. There are a lot of tickets left, so don’t be left out and come along to see several of the speakers give […]

As I am giving some presentations on YUI3 and BOSS tomorrow I thought I give them a whirl and see what I can come up with. I remembered my esteemed colleague Neil Crosby joking about the idea of an “unsafe search” – take a search result and diff it with the safe search result (adult […]

Ever since I got the fancy title of “Developer Evangelist”, people look at me cross-eyed and wonder what that is. The reactions reach from “oh so you don’t code any more” to “that’s marketing isn’t it?”. Both are wrong. I see the job of an evangelist to validate your company and its products in the […]