Jake and I will be guests at March’s London Web Standards meetup. We’re giving a pair of JavaScript themed talks that should give plenty of fodder for the latter half of the evening’s discussion. I’m doing “Pro bun-fighting“, covering how we manage working on a large scale JavaScript project with a small team, [...]
Category Archives: Web Dev
JavaScript speed testing tutorial with Woosh
January 12, 2010 – 3:05 pm
Friend and colleague, Jake Archibald, has been developing Woosh, which is a JavaScript speed testing framework. Essentially, it’s been developed for Glow because we want to make sure that Glow 2 kicks Glow 1’s ass (and any else who fancies a piece), but he’s open-sourced the work to let everyone benefit from it.
I thought [...]
Github and QUnit
December 18, 2009 – 11:00 am
This year, Glow switched over to using Github as it’s code repository when it went open source to make collaboration easier. To be honest, getting used to git and github in general has been somewhat of an uphill battle for the team, but we’ve really found it’s come into it’s own recently now that [...]
HTML5 Microdata – Over-cooked?
May 24, 2009 – 12:15 pm
What is Microdata?
Microdata is HTML5’s answer to how we should go about embedding machine-readable data in our mark-up.
At a high level, microdata consists of a group of name-value pairs. The groups are called items, and each name-value pair is a property. Items and properties are represented by regular elements.
A simple example looks something like this:
<div [...]
Rewired State
March 14, 2009 – 2:16 pm
I was lucky enough to get to attend Rewired State’s “National Hack the Government Day” last weekend. It was a really good day and probably the best Hackday I’ve been to.
Things that really made it work:
It was focused. Having a very specific set of goals makes it easier for people to come up with [...]
IE8 layout JS bug
February 16, 2009 – 4:30 pm
Just a quicky – wanted to help link-love this to help out the bug squashing cause. Jake has found a rather fun IE8 bug: IE8 layout – Javascript / innerHTML bug.
You know too much
December 18, 2008 – 1:08 pm
One of the exciting things about being on the internet is the ability to quickly and anonymously send messages. Over the years, I’ve been fortunate enough to receive all kinds of interesting emails and notes – some of which border on the stalker.
I got one today, which I hope the sender will take as [...]
Microformats, the BBC and friends
July 7, 2008 – 12:46 pm
I recently had the job of letting the microformats community know that the BBC were having to drop hCalendar due to accessibility concerns surrounding the use of abbr and the date-time pattern.
My friend and colleague Jake Archibald published a summary of what’s happened so far, what the current alternative suggestions are and the [...]