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Excuses for Data Hugging 24 Jul 2011 | 07:07 am
At the Open Knowledge Conference on Open Data that was held recently in Berlin (more to follow), Andrew Stott, who led the work on data.gov.uk, shared a sample of “data hugging” excuses: It’s held se...
More CSS Drop Shadows For All Browsers 24 Aug 2010 | 04:00 am
Thanks to the unstoppable advancements of web standards aiding mankind to overcome the real burdens of the 21st century, adding drop shadows to boxes became much easier in recent years! No more PNG ba...
Guest Lecture on Accessibility 22 May 2010 | 03:00 am
Last week I was invited to hold a guest lecture at the Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz about accessible websites. After the successful barcamp at the University of Mainz in November the executi...
Web Performance Optimization (WPO) 19 May 2010 | 03:00 am
Yesterday I held a talk at the Webmontag in Frankfurt about web performance optimization. According to the prophecy WPO will become an industry like SEO in the near future. Tenni Theurer and Steve Sou...
Heroes – Transmedia Storytelling 30 Mar 2010 | 04:00 am
Another inspiring panel at SXSW featured Tim Kring as interviewee. He is a screenwriter and began his carrer with episodes for Knight Rider, achieved his breakthrough with the cult series Crossing Jor...
The Long Tail: Kids With Homemade Flamethrowers 27 Mar 2010 | 03:00 am
One of the most entertaining panels at SXSW last week was What We Learned Watching Kids With Homemade Flamethrowers. For those of us who are unfamiliar with that microgenre here is a short introductio...
Ada Lovelace Day 2010 24 Mar 2010 | 09:00 am
Today is Ada Lovelace Day, an international day of blogging to celebrate the achievements of women in technology and science. Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, wrote the first programs for Charl...
Embedding YouTube Video with iPhone Fallback 26 Nov 2009 | 06:00 am
Just a quick note as a reminder to myself how to embed YouTube videos in a standards compliant, valid XHTML syntax. It works across all current browsers, doesn’t use <embed>, and has the elegant fallb...
HTML 5 Accessibility at SXSW Interactive 18 Aug 2009 | 04:00 am
SXSW is an enormous web conference in Austin / Texas with hundreds of panels squeezed into four days. The panelpicker application opened today and yours truly is hosting a panel on HTML 5 Accessibilit...
Amazon Plugin Authorization 1 Aug 2009 | 09:00 am
Oh, it’s confusing how often Amazon changes it’s product names and API. In my plugin the Help response group is used for key validation, alas recently it’s been deprecated. I need more time to look fo...
