I normally don’t write about products of my company here, but I want to quickly talk about SearchMonkey, a new service by Yahoo available for developers right now. I spent some time with journalists from several magazines yesterday explaining the technicalities of SearchMonkey following a presentation about the business and end user benefits explained by […]

I’ve been talking to a lot of developers lately in order to make people work better together and get things done faster. One thing that keeps fascinating me is the length people go to not to communicate mistakes and problems. We are very much happy to celebrate successes and point out the obvious benefits of […]

I am spending far too much time keeping explanation tutorials of scripts in sync with changes in the code. This is why I wrote myself a PHP solution to do the work for me. I’ve found over the years that the best way to explain a script is to : Show an example Show the […]

Last week I went to AKQA in London to give a brown-bag presentation on progressive enhancement. I took this chance to vent some of my ideas on the subject and counteract some of the criticisms I heard about the need for enhancing web solutions progressively. I’ve come up with the following “Seven rules of progressive […]

It is quite fascinating to me that the newest article on dev.opera.com entitled ‘Stop using Ajax!’ is such a big thing right now. Tweets, shared bookmarks and Google Reader items are pouring in and people seem to consider it an amazingly daring article. Here’s the truth: James is right. He also was right when he […]