Recently there has been a swathe of stories and ideas doing the rounds on the web such that I think, to some extent at least, we are becoming desensitised to precisely how moronic we are as a populace. I love the Internet, but recently I’m beginning to wonder if its all going in the wrong [...]

It seems mandatory to write a New Year’s post, so here’s mine – though I’m keeping it short n sweet.
I spent 2009:
working on cool things, doing a spot of holidaying, paying off loans, procrastinating, not paying people enough attention, playing Peggle, hating my flat.
2010 will be spent:
working on many more cool things, saving, giving more [...]

Sometimes I can’t stand geeks.

or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the DOM.

Jeffrey Zeldman on self-promotion.

I didn’t think anything could beat the original post.

I need a laugh after this.

I like a good rant about Twitter as much as the next person.

Digging out my PC and taking BumpTop for a spin.

When I read that Google had release Chrome Frame – an Internet Explorer plugin that can inject the Chrome rendering & JavaScript engines into IE – I thought it was a pretty fantastic idea. Now I’m not so sure.

XCode provisioning profiles – now you see them, now you don’t.

Just in case you ever needed to calculate a CSS specificity value (don’t all shout out at once), here’s a small JavaScript object to do just that.

Many sites allow users to post content via email, but the method tends not to be pretty. Here’s a slightly different approach that could improve the experience.

Find out how to improve web app performance with Ignite, by limiting browser reflow.

There are countless ways to apply classical inheritance to JavaScript; practically every JS library or framework out there uses one. Even though it is an old topic, I was looking at several solutions and none of them seemed quite right to me. Here is my attempt.

A few weeks after my first post regarding iPhone app development, I’m slowly being driven more inane with the entire process. I’ve found my feet with Obj-C, but there are new headaches to contend with…

I get the feeling that many who come to Objective-C find it a difficult language. This may be due in part to the App store bandwagon – if which I admit to being a member – but I can’t help but view the language as, well, annoyingly constructed.

Even though sIFR 3 has been out for ages, there are still a lot of folks using version 2. It still works quite nicely, but yesterday I came across a very strange bug that, as far as I can tell, derives from Flash rather than the sIFR code.

A couple of techniques for detecting image loading in any browser.

Do the benefits of an OAuth-style authentication system outweigh the cost to the user experience?