All in the head by Drew McLellan

After reading Neil Crosby’s post on the people who had a ticket but didn’t show up for BarCamp London 5, I began to write up some thoughts as a comment to that post. As often happens, it turned int...

Last month I had the pleasure of speaking at the Geek in The Park event up in Leamington Spa, here in the UK. Whilst the weather didn’t quite hold out in the way we’d hoped, the whole day was still...

One of the more exasperating quirks of Internet Explorer is the way it mishandles BUTTON elements. If you’re not all that familiar with HTML buttons (and don’t be ashamed, it’s not all that widely ...

I had the pleasure of being able to attend Oxford Geek Night 7 last month to present a five minute microslot called The Clangers’ Guide to Microformats. There’s not much you can cover in just five ...

When working on front end development projects, we’re finding that a great many more sites are taking advantage of small Javascript animation effects to make interactions feel more polished. One t...

Last week I had the pleasure of presenting once again at the London @media conference, this time on the subject of Content Management. It was the first time I’d run that particular presentation, a...

I’ve come into contact with a lot of different content management systems over the years, from the off-the-shelf to the handmade by pixies varieties. Apart from the almost universal truth that ever...

Two years ago, I wrote a brief critique of what was then Adobe’s brand new Ajax framework, called Spry. At the time I noted how its use of obtrusive Javascript techniques and liberal application of...

Announced this week was an initiative called London Web Week, which will run from May 26th to June 2th this summer. It encompasses existing events like @media 2008 and BarCamp London 4 whilst prov...

One of my favourite features of web-aware calendaring software (be that desktop or online) is the ability to subscribe to a calendar. Rather than importing the data once, the calendar software wil...