Last friday the missus, our daughter Emma and I went to the local hospital for Sandra's 20 week scan. As before when we were expecting Emma, we asked if they could tell us the sex of our unborn child and it turned out to be pretty clear that it's a…
Recently I was creating some code that dynamically changes the options in a select element. In the first draft I decided to us innerHTML for speed. Using innerHTML for this is very straight forward. You build your string of options and dump them into the select. Unfortunately the draw back…
The first WSG London meetup happened on Friday and judging by the comments people made afterwards was a tremendous success. The Presentations Andy Budd gave a thought-provoking talk about what standards are really about by first talking about the history of the screw to then talk about (in terms of…
Today was my second day at Yahoo! having started there on monday as a web developer. I've joined the web development team where I will be spending plenty of time getting to know the YUI libraries. It's great to be working in the same team as Christian and Norm, they…
I'm not sure exactly how new this is, but I've just noticed when you press the select all link in Gmail/Googlemail, a new option appears which says 'select all X conversations in "label"'. This is great. Now you can delete all the messages under a given…
Christian Heilmann's book is soon to be winging it's way onto the bookshop shelves from the 17th July. Don't let the title mislead you there's some nice and chunky examples to get your teeth into. Check out the book's site to get a feel for what's on offer and get…
Eagle-eyed Tim Mark let me know earlier today that Google Analytics seems to have stopped collecting data. After checking my accounts I can concur that all of them have stopped collecting data. Now either this is a minor glitch in the Matrix or someone just added Google Analytics to Yahoo's…
I recently switched to using Camino as my main browser on the mac as it's so much faster than firefox. The only downside is that even with all of the add-ons that are available for Camino, I still need Firefox when it comes to debugging javascript or general web development.…