Muffinresearch Labs by Stuart Colville

About the site and the author

Muffin Research Labs

The name was inspired by the late Frank Zappa. His studio was called the Utility Muffin Research Kitchen. In addition to this Stuart has a penchant for blueberry muffins so there wasn’t any other name that would have been right.

This site is all about every aspect of web development with a heavy bias on web standards. Stuart firmly believes that web standards will make the web a better place for everyone through allowing every person, user-agent, and platform access to the web.

About the author

Raised by wolves in Alaska, Stuart was brought back to the UK by the 1979 Anglo-French Alaskan expedition. From there he caught up in language skills and proceeded to move ahead through life. Fast forward 27 years and Stuart is now working as web developer for Yahoo!

At Yahoo! Stuart is a Senior Web Developer, working in the Yahoo! front-page team, dealing with HTML, CSS and JavaScript implementations using the wonderful YUI libraries.

Stuart is someone who is always looking to advocate web standards and best practices in everything he does. So far several of Stuart’s articles have been used as recommended reading for various web development courses in Universities and colleges in the USA and this site is read by web developers all over the world. Stuart regularly attends conferences and events relating to web development and considers himself an active member of the web standards community at large.

Stuart is a member of the Web Standards Group and the organiser of the WSG London Meetup, a bi-monthly web developers get together.

Stuart resides with his fiance Sandra and their 4 year-old daughter Emma and 1 year-old son Sean in the garden of England otherwise known as Kent.

Note: The view on this blog are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the author’s employer.