Note: the server is defunct at the moment but you can get the source code of the calendar on GitHub: code and zip In Yesterday’s tutorial I went up to making the advent calendar use Ajax to load the ...

I am right now in Bucharest, Romania, preparing my slides for the Geek Meet in Craiova tonight. Yesterday I went to the University here to introduce the students to the wonders of YUI. This is just a ...

Bit off-topic here, but very cool indeed. I am a huge fan of Jamie Hewlett (ever since Tank Girl) and the Gorillaz together with IE9 are asking for people to design a character for the next videos: ...

You may not know it, but I am a huge Calvin and Hobbes fan. Not as big as this guy, but big: The reason to me is that Calvin and Hobbes is full of features that I consider the ingredients of great ...

On Tuesday Laura North’s Speaking Out partnered with the London Girl Geek Dinners to deliver the third Speaking Out Event in London, England. Speaking out is meant to give people tips, confidence and ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Minification is the process to remove all unnecessary whitepace (spaces, tabs, linebreaks) from a piece of code to make it weigh less when downloaded. During a strike in Paris this is exactly what ...

One thing I keep getting asked ever since I published my JavaScript book is to compare the book, my scripts or even myself to other publications and people. This is not only people asking me whether ...

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: ...