In recent times a meme has been making the rounds that allegedly shows a smart way to solve interview puzzles. In these memes developers are asked to create an ASCII pattern like the following: The ...

I was asked by some German friends if I knew something about Flash and Accessibility for a German podcast, and I said yes, but most of it is hearsay and some testing some years ago. I remembered ...

Ok, using YQL and playing around with the console can make you go a bit too far. That made we wonder why we really have to care about the detection of a feed but instead use it when it is there and ...

What follows here is a quick introduction to the magic of cURL. This was inspired by the comment of Bruce Lawson on my 24 ways article: Seems very cool and will help me with a small Xmas project.

As part of the re-write of The Developer Advocacy Handbook I needed to have blockquotes with different classes. With GitHub Pages markdown you can do that using the > notation: > **Fact:** There are ...

Things that made me happy this morning (just a few cause I am on my way to the airport – Sunnyvale, California for a week) ...

The rest remains the same: Developer Evangelism is a new kind of role in IT companies. This is the handbook how to be successful in it. A developer evangelist is a spokesperson, mediator and ...

Things that made me happy this morning (well technically it is morning and the aftermath of the BBC party): ...

It might be a good idea to define this as a preset in the beginning of your style sheet, to avoid the need to repeat it over and over again. Also notice that the setting is “border:none”, which tells ...

Github Next now showed a new feature in GitHub Copilot labs that allows you to change code you write to make it cleaner, more robust and document it automatically. GitHub Copilot is incredible, and if ...

Craig: I haven’t had a spam comment in about two months. Either my Akismet/BadBehavior combo is working or the spammers have learned to target POPULAR blogs. 5 out of 5 for good humour, Craig Cook Yes ...

After spending about three weeks finishing a chapter of the upcoming book introducing JavaScript libraries to non-developers I was quite amazed how tough it is at times to use different libraries. It ...