As the readers of this blog know, I am currently working in a new team that defines the code standards, best practices and methodologies to follow for the European web development in our company. We’re trying to achieve that using a mixture of commonly regarded best practices and findings in different projects after analyzing their […]

It doesn’t happen often that you get invited to speak at a conference about a technology you never programmed yourself. However, I will give a talk at the Flashforum Konferenz Cologne this September. I got a bit daring and came up with a topic that I couldn’t believe they signed off called Emancipated JavaScript and […]

CSS Sprites are a very good idea indeed. Instead of having lots of small images that all need to get loaded (HTTP and possibly DNS request) you use one large image and use background-position to only show the one you need. This makes your pages faster and gives users the impression that it is available […]

One of the beautiful things of PHP is its wealth of array methods. JavaScript in comparison seems ridiculously inadequate and you find yourself having to write own methods or patch the existing ones. One method I especially cherish is array_unique() which returns a new array that has all the duplicates filtered out. This is easy […]

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