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Introducing the YUI at Bucharest University
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 ...
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Building an advent calendar for Mozilla in PHP/JS/CSS (part 2)
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 ...
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All our work should be like Calvin and Hobbes
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 ...
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Frontloaded and zipped up – the Full Frontal 2009 keynote
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 ...
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Want to design a Gorillaz character? They need “The Evangelist”
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: ...
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Talk nerdy to me! – how to talk to tech audiences (Speaking Out)
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 ...
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Transcript of the Paris Web 2007 workshop on Unobtrusive JavaScript
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 ...
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What’s your excuse for not using the web share API?
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” ...
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Social media platforms should make it easier to add alternative text using an [Alt: description] syntax
Adding alternative texts to images on social platforms is not a “nice thing to have” but important to not lock people out. That’s why it is a shame that it is quite tricky to do it across different ...
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Simple things: styling ordered lists
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 ...
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Decoded Chats – fourth edition featuring Sarah Drasner on SVG
At SmashingConf Freiburg I took some time to interview Sarah Drasner on SVG. In this interview we covered what SVG can bring, how to use it sensibly and what pitfalls to avoid. You can see the video ...