Friday, May 11th, 2007
Surprised that no geeks have mentioned the relationship between CSS:
- the language used to describe how an HTML document should be formatted, and
- the Band from Brazil (link to wikipedia)
Both with the same name.
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Friday, May 11th, 2007
Friday, May 4th, 2007
Released today is Twitter for mobile..
Announced by Ev, in a very subtle announcement.
All I can say is.. ‘oh dear, please stop making it more addictive than it is already’.. Probably one of the most visited sites in my daily routine, apart from gmail and the google reader.
It’s a tempting offer.. to add to the ever growing suite of ways to keep in touch with your friends and colleagues..
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Friday, April 13th, 2007
I’ve found some time and only gone and added extra functionality to Jayonline.
1/ AJAX functionality - to show the blog feed on the homepage which is in HTML format.
Partly due to Jeremy Keith writing ‘Bulletproof AJAX‘, a book which I have read recently. He has some examples of the code online, which is a great place to start playing around and seeing how the functionality can work for you.
The beauty of progressive enhancement. (more…)
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Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
Notes of the inaugural Scottish web conference organised by Alan White
An early start from Brighton to attend a conference in Edinburgh, with an interesting title. As Edinburgh is not in the highlands, but perhaps a great subtitle of progressive enhancement to attract us southerners to make the trip across the borders.
Aim of conference: The first Scottish conference based on progressive enhancement demonstrating what we can do today for tomorrow > learning the correct methods of web development > progressive enhancement of the web.

Photo of Jeremy Keith’s Secret Fling
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Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Tantek Celik talks about his Internet fame and breaks down his work on microformats at Technorati. He also tells us that everything he learned about online video he learned at the Vloggies and promises his own vlog soon.
You can view the video here
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Wednesday, March 7th, 2007
Just a quick note to say that if you made it to FOWA07, or even if you didnt, the presentations and notes are available on www.futureofwebapps.com
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