As reported by Jeremy, Andy and Jon, last weekend was a chance for that rare creature – the UK Web Standards Geek – to meet with others of their kind, and marvellous fun it was too. Everyone seems to have survived their encounter with The Small Person, who was terribly excited to have all those … Geeks at the beach
If you are a Windows user and interested in trying out some Open Source software without needing to scour the web, then you might like to download TheOpenCD, which is a collection of open source and free software that runs on Windows.
We’ve been on holiday for a week, down to Devon in the UK, land of cream teas and Dartmoor ponies. It was good fun, although I was rather glad to get back to broadband after suffering with a laptop and dialup internet connection for a week!
I have a lot of computer books, I work on various platforms and with several different languages and need my reference books to remind of of syntax as I swap from one language to another in the course of working on the various projects I have on the go at any one time. However, I … The PHP Anthology
I started writing a comment in response to Molly’s blog “Where are the women of CSS“ but when it started to become something of an essay I thought I’d move it here! Molly asks why are there so few women ‘names’ in the CSS community and as a woman … who happens to have just … Where are the women in CSS
Bruce Lawson argues that JavaScript pop-up windows are a tool of Satan himself, I think he may have a point, portals to the underworld they could well be …
I stopped using Internet Explorer in favour of Firefox some time ago, not because I hate everything to do with Microsoft – I’m writing this post on machine running Windows XP, and still do a lot of work developing solutions using Microsoft technologies – but because Firefox is a better browser. Internet Explorer always seems … Why you should dump Internet Explorer
Today The Web Standards Project have launched a survey with the aim of finding out who is using web standards, why they visit the WaSP web site and what would they like to see on the site that would help them when using web standards. From the press release: In the biggest survey since WaSP’s … Web Standards – who cares anyway?
Our Members of Parliament are supposed to be representing us, however most of us are too busy to be able to keep track of what is being said on our behalf by our local MP. They Work for You gives you an easy method to search on exactly what issues you local MP is speaking … They Work for You
My membership of The Guild of Accessible Web Designers (GAWDS) was accepted today. I wanted to join GAWDS because it seems like a great idea at a time when many people are confused and concerned about accessibility – particularly in terms of accessibility legislation – and there is an awful lot of spurious advice flying … Guild of Accessible Web Designers