Nicole Sullivan is a Performance Engineer & International Evangelist at Yahoo, her work involves optimising and streamlining performance on large scale websites from a front-end perspective. Here’s another useful note session from an content-packed video.More

Now I’ll freely admit that as a Web Standards based developer I’m meant to just hate flash. I don’t though. In talented hands it is an incredible tool for exploring human computer interaction and also delivery of rich content.More

I gave a talk at the April 2009 WebSG Meetup Singapore last night. A really great meetup, met lots of interesting people and heard a fascinating talk from Jon Petersen, a self styled location geek who’s new restaurant phone application buUuk seems to be a fascinating project.More

This blog suffers, like many, from periodic abandonment. The latest six-month absence has seen me return to Singapore from Manila, and put in process the formation of a company. As well as get through a shedload of work.More

At work, I was recently was tasked with a quick fix of an issue that has been plaguing the company as it gets press from all right thinking people. People using the logo from the home-page, a graphic with a built-in yellow corner.More

I’ve retired this plugin, as in the intervening years (this article was written in 2007) I’m back to using the standard input tags, mainly due to improved CSS controls in modern browsers and a desire not to faff about with the cross-browser CSS to make them look ok.

Coming from a CSS/XHTML Web Standards background my approach to Rails has been slightly different from others. My views on the borderline heretical inline Javascript of some of the more AJAX-y methods has been dealt with by Dan and Luke and their utterly fabulous Unobtrusive Javascript plugin.More