I was lucky enough to get some good JavaScript trainings in the last months, one of which being Douglas Crockford explaining the DOM as an inconvenient API to work with. While his slides have a splendid “Silent Movie” style to it (white text on black background), they tend to be a bit overwhelming when you […]

With the copious amount of free alcohol still in my body and this being somewhat of a celebration (the 350th post – yes, it is rather random, sue me), let me allow myself to talk of a night out in the West End (10 minutes from the office) with Opera playing host to bloggers and […]

Disclaimer: This is a list that will be part of the upcoming book for Friends of Ed about Web Development with Web Services and APIs. I thought it’d be interesting to preview it here and see what you think. [link:http://cabanadigital.com/weblog/2006/10/14/%c2%bfque-hace-a-un-buen-sitio-web/#more-173,en español] Following are some ideas about what makes a successful web site in the web […]

One of my greater annoyances on the web is sites that automatically focus a form field when the page has loaded. Supposedly this should make it easier for you to use the product, as you are to log-in anyways, but there is one real problem with this. If you try the demo page for a […]

My glasses just snatched and broke in two pieces this morning, which is why I had to feel my way to the office from the opticians. I now can do my own accessibility testing for the next few hours until the new pair is ready. Amazing how much font zooming can help when you really […]