This blog started as a scratch pad of simple solutions to problems I encountered. So why not go back to basics? It is pretty easy to get an ordered list into a document. All you have to do is add an ...

On Tuesday Laura North’s Speaking Out partnered with the London Girl Geek Dinners to deliver the third Speaking Out Event in London, England. Speaking out is meant to give people tips, confidence and ...

You can get the recording of the talk over at archive.org – recorded on my macbook, so there are some volume fluctuations. JavaScript had a bumpy ride up to now ...

This is a step-by-step description accompanied by code examples of the “Unobtrusive JavaScript” workshop at Paris Web 2007 in Paris, France. You can download all ...

Minification is the process to remove all unnecessary whitepace (spaces, tabs, linebreaks) from a piece of code to make it weigh less when downloaded. During a strike in Paris this is exactly what ...

The closing keynote of the first day of JSConf Asia covered my worries that we are getting slightly overboard in our affection of JavaScript to solve every issue. It seems we have forgotten just how ...

A few months ago, I flew over to see my parents for their 50th wedding anniversary. As some of you may know, I have a humble background. My dad was a coal miner and then factory worker and my mother ...

One thing I keep getting asked ever since I published my JavaScript book is to compare the book, my scripts or even myself to other publications and people. This is not only people asking me whether ...

The WebShare API is so easy to use, it is a crime people don’t use it more. Instead, we have tons of dead “share on $thing” ...

Adding alternative texts to images on social platforms is not a “nice thing to have” but important to not lock people out. That’s why it is a shame that it is quite tricky to do it across different ...

I just shot a ton of pictures on vacation and was amazed to see just how much extra data our mobile phones store in images. This is a ton of information to play with. The classic is using the GPS data ...