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 ...
At almost every developer conference right now there will be a talk that features the following “funny GIF”: Peter Griffin aka Family Guy trying to make some blinds close and making a total mess of it ...
The first impression was that this would be the end of development as we know it and that it is yet another attempt of big corporations to benefit from free software and data on the internet. The next ...
A few days ago I was in Berlin to speak at the JSConf EU for the first time. As a topic I covered how we as a JavaScript community should be doing more to bring our knowledge out to the world and I ...
I just got back from Toronto, Canada, where I attended Web Unleashed a FITC organised three day conference with fifty talks in four tracks. Despite this size, the event felt cozy and not too spread ...
One thing that bugs me a lot is that in the publishing world about the web we have a fetish for the “how” whereas we should strive for the “why” instead. What do I mean by that? Well, first of all, I ...
After a refreshing and not at all annoying, pointless and anachronistic two and a half hour wait outside the High Commission of India in London I am a proud owner of a 3 month, one entry visa to India ...
The browser developer tools Console is so much more than a place to log your messages. It is a way for you to programatically access the currently shown document and window, read out values and change ...
Today I gave a quick talk on HTML5 at the Evento Linux conference in Lisbon, Portugal. Originally I had planned for a longer keynote and when I realised I only had 20 minutes, I had to cut down a bit.
I got some emails by people asking me how the script powering the css table gallery works. Instead of answering each and every email, please refer to the following if you are also curious: ...
Disclaimer: this is the script, well, the notes, for a presentation I am giving at Spotify in Sweden this weekend as part of the Studenttechfest. I was asked to give an inspirational keynote telling ...
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 ...