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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Disclaimer: I work for Mozilla, these are my views, yadda yadda. Today Google released the Google Web Designer (beta), a WYSIWYG editor to create HTML5 ads for Google AdSense. The designer is an ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mike Davies, esteemed colleague and one of the silent web workers that do a lot more than they talk about vented some steam on a series of blog posts where he ...

Things that made me happy this morning: ...

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 ...

I myself have been a professional, well-paid and sought-after developer since 1995. I worked for several years at Yahoo, Mozilla and Microsoft and worked with Google on the Chromium project. At the ...

When the web started one of the best parts about it was the naming of things. To “surf the web” implied fun and adventure and to “browse” implied serendipity. And we seem to have lost that. Let’s go ...