I almost didn’t hear about Adobe’s on Air conference until it was upon us and the list of attendees was full. Luckily I got hold of one of the organizers and got a ticket that way (thanks Mike !). I have to admit that I was dreading the whole thing to be a terrible marketing-driven […]

Coming back from The Highland Fling it was interesting to see that people seem not to be quite convinced yet about the necessity of APIs and the large part they are playing in the next few years of web development. I guess this is partly based on experiences with APIs that aren’t properly explained to […]

Ever since I started working for Yahoo in England I’ve been lucky enough to recommend a lot of developers I wanted to work with for ages and get them hired to work here. One thing that annoyed me a bit is that we only took on very skilled and experienced developers. I consider a good […]

After helping to fix the Yahoo search result pages with the correct language attributes to make them accessible for screen reader users I was wondering how this could be done with user generated content. The easiest option of course would be to ask the user to provide the right language in the profile, but if […]

I am just sitting at the airport in Montréal, waiting for the delayed flight to arrive and get me back to New York City to get back to London. I’ve spent the last few days first in New York to speak at the AjaxWorld East conference, then go to Montréal, Canada to speak at the […]