Soul

A presentation from Reboot 9, held in Copenhagen in 2007.

June 23rd, 2008

Creating Portable Social Networks With Microformats

A presentation from XTech 2008 in Dublin.

June 21st, 2008

Building Portable Social Networks

A panel I moderated at South by Southwest Interactive 2008. My fellow panelists are Chris Messina, Leslie Chicoine, David Recordon and Joseph Smarr.

June 8th, 2008

Open Data

This is the keynote presentation I gave at the Accessibility 2.0 conference held in London in April 2008.

April 25th, 2008

They Shoot Browsers, Don’t They?

This article first appeared in issue 253 of A List Apart magazine. Two weeks later, Microsoft reversed their position on the default behaviour of version targeting.

April 9th, 2008

Ajax Kung Fu Meets Accessibility Feng Shui

A presentation with Derek Featherstone at South by Southwest 2007.

September 29th, 2007

@media 2007 Hot Topics Panel

A free-form panel I moderated at the London leg of the @media 2007 conference.

August 19th, 2007

Explaining Ajax

A presentation I gave at Web Directions South in Sydney, Australia in September 2006.

January 19th, 2007

A Browser Darkly

A look at the past, present, and future of Web browsers from the Opera Backstage event in London

October 17th, 2006

The Joy of API

A presentation I gave at dConstruct 2006 in Brighton.

October 6th, 2006

Using DOM Scripting to Plug the Holes in CSS

A talk I gave at @media 2006 in London.

July 13th, 2006

Behavioural Separation

This article first appeared in issue 218 of A List Apart magazine. Breaking up is hard to do. But in web design, separation can be a good thing. Content, style and behaviour all deserve their own space.

July 8th, 2006

Microformats: Evolving the Web

A panel I sat in on at South by Southwest 2006. My fellow panelists are Chris Messina and Norm! The moderator is Tantek Çelik.

June 24th, 2006

In Praise of the Hyperlink

A talk I gave at Reboot 8 in Copenhagen.

June 2nd, 2006

How to Bluff Your Way in DOM Scripting

A presentation I gave with Aaron Gustafson at South By Southwest 2006.

April 22nd, 2006

A Brief History of JavaScript

This article first appeared in issue 1 of Treehouse magazine.

October 3rd, 2005

This Year’s Document Object Model

The Document Object Model is a working standard approved by the World Wide Web Consortium that is correctly implemented in most modern browsers.

June 18th, 2004

JavaScript Image Gallery

This article first appeared in issue 170 of A List Apart Magazine. Here’s a quick and easy way of making a one-page gallery that uses JavaScript to load images and their captions on the fly.

December 16th, 2003

Photoshop Actions

I’d like to share some of my Photoshop actions with you. I use these when I want to “touch up” photographs and add some extra effects.

November 9th, 2003

CSS Based Design

Let me tell you why you’re here. You’re here because you know something. What you know you can’t explain but you feel it, that there’s something wrong with the web.

September 23rd, 2003

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