One of the most asked questions at dconstruct last week was if I am coming to the Brighton Barcamp. I wasn’t coming, and there is a reason. When I helped organizing the first London BarCamp and the Hong Kong BarCamp, one of our main drivers was to organize events that get developers out of the […]

Over at the Yahoo Developer Blog, I just posted a quick tutorial how you can use the Yahoo Music API to show videos of your favourite band in a few dozen lines of JavaScript. This is a bit of a rough’n’ready way of doing it and I’ll get some more sophisticated examples out there once […]

We are one step closer to turning online video into a great resource for the hard of hearing or even for non-native speakers to learn languages better. Google just announced support for closed captioning in YouTube videos: YouTube Blog Post Detailed information on YouTube support Congratulations, and thank you, YouTube, I personally learnt a lot […]

Over at the .net awards I was just confused to find me in category 13 as a contender for “Standards Champion”. The competition is err… I go and pack: Mozilla Alastair Campbell/Nomensa World Wide Web Consortium Dan Cederholm/Simplebits Christian Heilmann/Yahoo Julie Howell/Fortune Cookie Dave Shea/CSS Zen Garden Eric Meyer meyerweb.com Jeffrey Zeldman/A List Apart Molly […]

As it is Friday and I am jetlagged I declare “pointless API Friday” and give you Scrabblr. Scrabblr allows you to send a word to it and it returns the scrabble value or an error in case the word has too many instances of a character than there are tiles available. Output formats are either […]