Category Archives: Web Dev

hgroups and sub-titles

I realise that queries or concerns about HTML 5 elements should make their way onto the WHATWG mailing list, but I just wanted to get a few thoughts out on here about what I’ve spent far too long discussing at work recently. It’s perfectly likely that I’ve totally got the wrong end of the proverbial, [...]

Science Hack Day, Turing Tests and Google

For Science Hack Day, I have have been thinking about a topic that was of great interest to me whilst I was at university – artificial intelligence. Science Hack Day hasn’t actually happened yet, by the way. It’s going on this weekend (19th & 20th June) at the Guardian offices, and there’s still time to [...]

London Web Standards – slides and further info

Sorry for the delay, but I finally got around to sticking my presentation from last month’s London Web Standards meet-up on slideshare. Slideshare is a bit naff to be honest, but it’ll do for now. If you click through to the talk on slideshare, you’ll be able to get my notes which should hopefully make [...]

London Web Standards Talks

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, our process, [...]

JavaScript speed testing tutorial with Woosh

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 [...]