I just came back from giving a presentation on how to cater content distribution via badges and widgets to the right audience and how we fail at it. See it on slideshare.net:

One of the biggest issues of CSS layouts is that not all columns are the same height which makes it hard to style them in a traditional manner. You can embrace this change as a designer, but that seldomly happens. Having played with YUI grids lately I realized this shortcoming, too. Nested grids don’t have […]

One of the lesser known gems of the Yahoo User Interface library is the Region utility which is part of the Dom utility. The documentation only mentions it and what it gives you but doesn’t quite live up to how powerful it can be in day to day interface development. Please refer to the accompanying […]

I am currently in [tag]Hongkong[/tag] training colleagues from Asia on how we do things in Europe. Or so I thought. I came here with [tag]Douglas Crockford[/tag] and [tag]Nate Koechley[/tag] to show what we’ve done in the US and the UK to make life easier for developers to create web sites and applications. When we asked […]

Not too long ago I was raving about the beauty of the Module Pattern in JavaScript and the annoyance I felt with it when it comes to repetition of long namespaces when calling or reading public methods and properties from other public methods and properties. To recap, the “classic” Module Pattern means you define a […]