Talking to the Opera Vikings at several conferences I realized that the little browser that could is doing a lot to help developers get the best out of them. While Firefox+Web Developer Toolbar+Firebug still rules for me as a developing platform, I was always a bit disappointed as to how Opera fell back in this […]

A work colleague who runs Tobago Retreats asked me to create a gallery badge that automatically shows her latest flickr photos in her gallery and I started another flickr badge from scratch. The outcome looks like this: All you have to provide is a link to the flickr stream or the tagged images in your […]

Dirk Jesse has read my blog post on how to enhance the YUI grids with equal height columns adding a dash of JavaScript and wanted to get him some of that for his own CSS framework YAML. Together with Dirk Ginader he created a jQuery based plugin for the YAML framework to equalize columns. There […]

In November, I’ll be back on the Eurostar to Travel to lovely lovely Paris and once again be the single English speaking presenter at a French conference. Past encounters were the first Braillenet Conference and the 11th BarCamp Paris. My talks will be a piece on why web standards make sense for collaboration and parallel […]

One of my favourite tricks in scripting is to delay things until they are absolutely necessary to make sure that no user needs to deal with lot of code that doesn’t make sense to have at that point in time. This leads to faster pages and just makes sense. The most common trick for this […]