These are my notes for my upcoming keynote at he Oscal conference in Tirana, Albania. Today I want to talk about the new challenges of “open”. Open source, Creative Commons, and many other ideas of the past have become pretty much mainstream these days. It is cool to be open, it makes sense for a […]

One of the things that drives me crazy in our “modern development” world is our fetish of over-complicating things. We build solutions, and then we add layers and layers of complexity for the sake of “making them easier to maintain”. In many cases, this is a fool’s errand as the layers of complexity and with […]

A lot of people are releasing amazing frameworks these days, so I thought I should have a go at an opinionated micro framework, too. Redact.js allows you to have really fast performing JS apps across devices and on Desktop and Mobile. The framework is only a few bytes and uses gulp to get minified and […]

Yesterday I closed up the “inspiration” track of Codemotion Rome with a talk about the state of browsers and how we as developers make it much too hard for ourselves. You can see the slides on Slideshare and watch a screencast on YouTube.

Last week I was lucky enough to give the opening keynote of the inaugural WROC# event in Wroclaw, Poland. The event, organised by Objectivity was aimed at Microsoft stack based developers and I felt incredibly out of my depth. In essence, I was the Microsoft employee who had much less knowledge about the subject matter […]