Alright, after writing on it for four evenings and on one flight in between watching Watchmen and “The Boat that rocked” I am proud to present you:

• The Developer Evangelist handbook

The handbook explains several things:

• What developer evangelism is
• What makes a good developer evangelist
• How to write for the web
• How to use social media and the web to promote content
• How to deliver great presentations
• How to deal with criticism of your company and what to do with the competition
• How to write easy to understand and useful code examples

The handbook is Creative Commons and free to use. I am working on getting a printed version out, too.

Here are shortcuts to the chapters:

• The developer evangelism handbook
• Defining developer evangelism
• Start with the right mindset
• Find your role and play to your strengths
• Remove the brand
• Work with the competition
• Prepare for outreach
• Get speaking opportunities
• Deliver a talk or workshop
• Write great posts and articles
• Write excellent code examples
• Record your output
• Know and use the (social) web
• Work with the conference buzz
• Additional presentation tips
• Thanks!

You can also go to the full table of contents.

July and August is a very slow time for me this year as there aren’t any conferences I am speaking at and no hack days planned. September will be packed again, though.

This is why I am right now planning to do some brown bag presentations in the London area. I’ve already been at IPC media, will go next Friday to ebay/gumtree/skype/paypal/shopping.com in Richmond and have had Sky and Thomson Group/TUI show some interest on twitter.

Brown bag presentations are by definition talks during lunch break where people can bring their food along. That way your employees can get some information or discuss their issues with an invited expert without disruption of your normal office hours and times.

I’d be happy to come around and give a talk on all the things I am passionate about. Currently these things are:

• Opening your own and reaching data on the web easily with YQL
• Mining your content and enhancing it with geographical information (Yahoo Placemaker)
• Building specialist search engines (BOSS)
• Accessibility and that it is not magic
• Professional Web Development
• Performance of web products and how to improve it

I am open to other topics, though.

If you are interested in some of that and you are in the Oyster card area, comment here or contact me on Twitter and we can talk date, location, topic and time. I don’t expect any pay, but normally a coffee, some water and a sandwich :). The whole idea of the exercise is to be able to reach developers that normally do not get the chance to go to conferences.

Things that made me happy this morning:

• Browser testing overlord Peter-Paul Koch has a support of CSS in mobile devices table that is full of win
• I did not know that there are hard-core knitters out there. Reminds me of Monty Python’s Hell’s Grannies
• Moby has free music for film makers
• Natalie Downe has a nifty CSS3 style sheet to turn documents into foldable books
• Did you know that Mona Lisa was a firefighter?
• I like things that are what they say on the tin: Explosions and boobs
• Check out the original Star Wars scripts to see where it all went wrong

Following my talk on web application security at the Web Directions North I had a lot of questions on PHP security and I have to admit I am OK but not an expert on the matter. Luckily enough there are experts I rely on and if you are in London next Tuesday you can go and see them give a talk for free!

In the second in the series of “YDN Tuesday” monthly events, Jose Palazon, Yahoo’s mobile security expert, will be talking about PHP Security.

The venue is Skills Matter Limited at 1 Sekforde Street, EC1R 0BE
London, England.

Jose will be presenting a series of demos on how to exploit and prevent the most popular security flaws in web applications, such as SQL and blind SQL Injections, Cross Site Scripting, file uploads, file handling functions, global variables and, favorite of them all, programmers ingenuity!

YDN Tuesdays are tech talks held on the first Tuesday of every month at Skills Matter’s London offices. The events are FREE, but you need to sign up for them at Skills Matter’s website.

Things that made me happy this morning:

• Google Maps now have a nifty public transport layer – for those not owning an SUV. This extends the old Google transit offer
• YQL now supports microformats and that is the result of me chatting with Jonathan Trevor over a coffee when I was in Sunnyvale last December :)
• I am now a BCS certified trainer – actually Institute Certified Training Practitioner – ICTP (and got the photo to proof it)
• Antonio Lupetti released a free book on webdesign, Ajax, CSS and HTML – needs a bit more structure, but a nice free read all the same
• Robert Scoble tells the world how to network socially – there’s a lot of truth in there, but he also seems to rant and repeat himself a bit.