In recent times a meme has been making the rounds that allegedly shows a smart way to solve interview puzzles. In these memes developers are asked to create an ASCII pattern like the following: The ...

After 25 years of working for, on and with the web, I am looking at the current state of it and I don’t like it. There is still a lot of beautiful, creative and amazing work out there, but on the ...

As part of the re-write of The Developer Advocacy Handbook I needed to have blockquotes with different classes. With GitHub Pages markdown you can do that using the > notation: > **Fact:** There are ...

The current blow to the open web that is the Net Neutrality ruling feels terrible to me. My generation saw the web emerge and many of us owe our careers to it. I am not surprised that it came to this.

I was asked by some German friends if I knew something about Flash and Accessibility for a German podcast, and I said yes, but most of it is hearsay and some testing some years ago. I remembered ...

What follows here is a quick introduction to the magic of cURL. This was inspired by the comment of Bruce Lawson on my 24 ways article: Seems very cool and will help me with a small Xmas project.

Ok, using YQL and playing around with the console can make you go a bit too far. That made we wonder why we really have to care about the detection of a feed but instead use it when it is there and ...

OK, it is not the end of the world yet, but a leaked screenshot of the latest Yahoo all-hands shows that delicious has no bright future in the company. So in order to preserve the years of work I put ...

Things that made me happy this morning (just a few cause I am on my way to the airport – Sunnyvale, California for a week) ...

The rest remains the same: Developer Evangelism is a new kind of role in IT companies. This is the handbook how to be successful in it. A developer evangelist is a spokesperson, mediator and ...

Let me interrupt the stream of presentations here with a quick interlude telling you about how cool Hong Kong is. I am currently sitting here at a cafe writing this on my newest toy – an Asus eeepc ...