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Learning Ruby

A friend of mine wants to learn to program so I asked Lazyweb. Here are the links I got back.

The Barcamp PaperWiki experiment

Things are written on bits of paper and stuck on the wall. People can locate things spatially - grouping notes as they see fit - or connect related notes with bits of string. They can also write directly onto other peoples’ notes. Simple and fairly intuitive.

Little Known Readability Research

Plenty of people are still referencing The Elements of Typographic Style (understandably!) when talking about readability for the web but there are some more recent research papers to draw on too.

Frankenstory

As a kid, did you ever play that game where you write a few lines of a story, fold the paper over and then pass it on?

Foreign & Commonwealth Office Travel Advice map

Over on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office’s website they have a nice long list of places you should and shouldn’t go, which I decided to plot on a map.

@media Ajax 2007

I have the honour and terror of presenting at @media Ajax on home turf this November. It’s a privilege to be speaking alongside the likes of Brendan Eich (creator of Javascript), Douglas Crockford

Etech is over

Etech is over and a great time was had by all. Our presentation was dogged by technical difficulties that meant I ended up using old slides but everyone seemed to enjoy it regardless.

Speaking at eTech

On Sunday I’m packing my bags and heading for San Diego for eTech. I’ve always wanted to go to eTech - it seems to be one of the most interesting events on the circuit - and this year I’m incredibly

Leaving freelancing

After 5 good years I’m hanging up my freelancing spurs and settling into a more sedentary existence. Well, not exactly. I’m becoming Head of User Experience at Trampoline Systems. As a small start-up

MySpace vs Facebook

I’ve been on MySpace for a while now, basically because loads of my friends are, but I’ve barely used it in the last 2 months, apart from checking on a few bands. It’s just too much hassle. It’s hard

The gold rush

The last couple of days at The Future of Web Apps has confirmed something I was talking to one of my friends about a few months ago… We have a gold rush on right now. There are a mass of little

Music, London and MySpace

The London music scene seems to be on fire at the moment! I can’t remember a time when there were more gigs to go to… In the last 10 days I’ve seen: Crystal Castles Danny Rapscallion of The

Background-position in CSS Explained

After an incredibly frustrating few hours trying to figure out why my liquid faux columns weren’t working I had a minor epiphany.

Building Modern Webapps at The Spring Experience

I’ve just done my Building Better Webapps presentation at the Spring Experience in Miami. I it went pretty well, as far as I can tell…

Building Modern Webapps at The Spring Experience

I’ve just done my Building Better Webapps presentation at the Spring Experience in Miami. I it went pretty well, as far as I can tell…

The Enron Explorer

This honestly wasn’t planned but you know Jeff Skilling was just sentenced to 24 years this morning for his part in the Enron collapse? Well it just so happens that while developing the SONAR

Internet Explorer 7 Graces us with her Presence

So IE7 has finally been released and the inevitable security exploits have already started surfacing. I’m very glad to see it, to be honest. The new CSS support is very welcome, even if it is playing

Why I won't music shop on the high street: a Long Tail case study

The Netflix $1 million competition to improve their recommendation engine has reminded me of something I said to my brother in Virgin Megastore the other night… I’d wandered in to kill some time

APIs

Along with the whole Web 2.0 thing has come a lot of talk about APIs. At the Carson Summit back in February Tom Coates said that the internet was becomming a web of data linked by APIs…

The BBC popularising Podcasting

I thought that podcasting would take a while to take off… And by a while, I mean years. How many people have iPods? Yes lots, but how many people even have MP3 players? Still not a majority. Of

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