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Response to a Recent Posting in Google+ 26 Oct 2012 | 05:43 pm
My response to a recent post in Google+ by Ian Hickson: You're comparing apples to oranges, +Ian Hickson. There's a world of difference between developing a specific piece of software and creating a ...
Look out: Android in the Kitchen 19 Oct 2012 | 10:43 pm
I was a late comer to the legions of mobile device owners. However, when I finally crossed over with my purchase of the first generation Kindle Fire, there was no looking back. To the Kindle Fire has ...
Node: References and Resources 4 Jun 2012 | 02:53 am
During my explorations of Node.js, I came across many excellent resources, references, tutorials, and various other online publications related to the technology. I had planned on incorporating this m...
Mozilla Reluctantly Embracing H.264 22 Mar 2012 | 01:11 am
Interesting doings this week on the HTML5 video front. Brendan Eich of Mozilla has stated the organization will now provide native support for H.264. In Video, Mobile, and the Open Web (also cross-po...
Learning Node: Well, One Rails Aside 20 Mar 2012 | 04:59 am
After denouncing the use of Ruby and Rails terms to describe Node and Node modules, I must now confess that I did use a Rails resource in the section on MVC in Chapter 6. The Rails Guide has an absol...
Learning Node: Concepts and TOC 18 Mar 2012 | 08:02 am
The Learning Node book is far enough along so that I can publish the Table of Contents for the book and it shouldn't differ significantly from the TOC for the book when it's finished. The chapters wit...
Any element can be replaced by something more relevant 15 Mar 2012 | 02:35 am
I only check in to the doings of the HTML WG at the W3C once a week. Most of my time is spent on my new book, Learning Node. Frankly, Node has been a refreshing change from the smoky labyrinth which ...
If It had remained as the Irrelevant Attribute 17 Feb 2012 | 02:31 am
The latest round of discussions related to longdesc (yes, still) was triggered by a revert request from Laura Carlson: As you know the editor made changes to the hidden section [1]. This biases an op...
Google's Ta Da Moments 13 Sep 2011 | 02:01 am
Henri Bergius wrote a piece on Google's seeming desire to replace all web components, except HTML. Among the "new" technologies: SPDY to replace HTTP schema.org and Microdata to replace a decade's w...
Notes from Writing HTML5 Media 20 Jul 2011 | 11:34 am
This last weekend I finished my latest book for O'Reilly: HTML5 Media. This is one of O'Reilly's shorter books (about 100 pages), primarily focused at the eBook market, though you can get a hard copy ...
