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 ...

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 ...

Last week I was in Paris for a Yahoo Developer Network evening and Paris Web and one of the talks I gave was an introduction to Yahoo Open Applications. These are applications that you can embed in ...

I just recovered from this year’s Fronteers conference in Amsterdam, The Netherlands (somehow I caught the flu Robert Nyman brought with him and now I am trying to get my voice back in time for ...

The folks at devchat.tv just published the 332nd edition of the JavaScript Jabber podcast. For about an hour a panel of people grilled me on the topic of You learned ...

These are the notes of my talk at SmartWebConf in Romania. Part 1 covered how Impostor Syndrome cripples us in using what we hear about at conferences. It covered how our training and onboarding ...

These are some notes about my closing keynote at From the Front in Bologna, Italy last week. The overall theme of the event was “Temple of the DOM” thus I kept it Indiana Jones themed (one could say ...

I just got back from SmartWebConf in Romania. I gave the closing talk. I wanted it to be of a slower pace and more reflective than what I normally deliver. I messed that up, as I got passionate about ...

Last week I was (for a change) back in London to give my first keynote for a conference. Accessibility 2.0, the conference by AbilityNet brought people to hear all about the marvels of accessibility ...

This will most likely be the first of a series of articles on how to use YUI and what each of the components offer you. Whilst YUI has a very good documentation, it is pretty hard to please all kind ...