The WebShare API is so easy to use, it is a crime people don’t use it more. Instead, we have tons of dead “share on $thing” ...

This blog started as a scratch pad of simple solutions to problems I encountered. So why not go back to basics? It is pretty easy to get an ordered list into a document. All you have to do is add an ...

You can get the recording of the talk over at archive.org – recorded on my macbook, so there are some volume fluctuations. JavaScript had a bumpy ride up to now ...

This is a step-by-step description accompanied by code examples of the “Unobtrusive JavaScript” workshop at Paris Web 2007 in Paris, France. You can download all ...

I am currently at MozCamp Asia in Singapore and just gave a quick presentation on blogging comparing a good technical blog post to rock songs. When you think about it, they have a lot in common: ...

This Thursday, my colleague Mike Harsh and Keith Rowe (@krow) from Microsoft’s Windows and Devices Group invite you to the Square Pig in London for some drinks and a chat. These two program managers ...

The closing keynote of the first day of JSConf Asia covered my worries that we are getting slightly overboard in our affection of JavaScript to solve every issue. It seems we have forgotten just how ...

I am back in the U.S. for a week staying in San Francisco and working in Santa Clara. So much more warmer here than London. I’ll be at the Accessibility Dinner on Thursday and generally trying to get ...

Installing the .NET 2 framework to run CSS Vista corrupted my registry and the laptop went straight into BSOD when booting. Therefore I had to parallel install Windows (as the repair explanations on ...

A few months ago, I flew over to see my parents for their 50th wedding anniversary. As some of you may know, I have a humble background. My dad was a coal miner and then factory worker and my mother ...

YQL is a very cool tool to extract data from HTML documents on the web. Let’s face facts: HTML is a terrible data format as far too many documents out there are either broken, have a wrong encoding or ...