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There's one question that I get asked a lot: I've got this great idea for an app...... what do you think?

If you've developed for Microsoft's SharePoint before (I'm talking about 2007 here, but this applies to WSS2 and 2010 as well) , then you'll know that you can reach the limits of it's functionality very quickly.

It's the end of an era for me.

Well over a year ago, I wrote an article on the regulated rigidness that is Apple's product release cycle.

Over the last few months I've been making a web site for my wedding.

Web applications are the next big thing in the web.

Over the last few days I attended the Future of Web Design conference in central London.

Over the last few days I attended the Future of Web Design conference in central London.

Last night was London Web Standards' April 2011 event, Fun with JavaScript.

The iPad 2 may be an "all new design", but Apple attended the same school as Porsche, making few changes on the surface and lots under the hood.

I've been experimenting with browsers for the past few days.

It's Mobile World Congress 2011 this week, and amongst the throngs of Honeycomb tablets, Nokia and Microsoft square dancing on the showroom floor, there are a few announcements that may not be hugely exciting to the general public, but that the tech commu…

I came up onto the District line platform at South Kensington station this morning just as a train pulled in.

This month, Marcus Alexander of EMC Consulting and Arran Ross-Paterson (of this parish) talk about HTML in the real world, dealing with clients, and what a quality project actually looks like.

This month, Marcus Alexander of EMC Consulting and Arran Ross-Paterson (of this parish) talk about HTML in the real world, dealing with clients, and what a quality project actually looks like.

On my way to see some friends in Sheffield, tweeting away on the train, Chris Murray offered me a ticket for Interesting North as a way out of going shopping with the missus and her friends.

There are loads of good reasons to look at and study users visiting your site: entrance points, pages visited, time spent reading, adverts clicked etc.

This month at london web standards, Opera's Chris Mills (@chrisdavidmills) and Anna Debenham (@anna_debenham) came down to talk to us about education and the web.

This month at london web standards, Opera's Chris Mills (@chrisdavidmills) and Anna Debenham (@anna_debenham) came down to talk to us about education and the web.

I started writing this post about a month ago whilst sat in the back garden of a friend's house.

Aaargh!

This month at London Web Standards, two in-depth HTML5 talks, covering bits which aren't in common usage at the moment, and what you can do with the bits that are.

This month at London Web Standards, two in-depth HTML5 talks, covering bits which aren't in common usage at the moment, and what you can do with the bits that are.

As a developer and iPhone fan, nothing pleases me more to say that Android has caught up with the iPhone.

Today's post inspiration comes courtesy of Matthew Solle (@solle) who tweeted this video of Campaign Monitor's new offices This video reminded me of my afternoon at my client.

I've been asking questions about my blog on Twitter, and a few notable things have come back: Text shadow on hover makes you feel seasick Text shadow is fine on headers Colours on the footer are hard to read It all feels a bit busy So, many of these things

Monday night (16th August 2010) was London Web Standards' 'Web Futures' event with presentations from Clear Left's Andy Hume (@andyhume) and Richard Rutter (@clagnut).

Monday night (16th August 2010) was London Web Standards' 'Web Futures' event with presentations from Clear Left's Andy Hume (@andyhume) and Richard Rutter (@clagnut).

Since I started using Feedburner to add adverts into my RSS feed (there are now ads, let me know if they're intrusive), I've been getting errors like the one above in my XML feed.

Hearing childhood teenage professional hero Andy Budd speak at #lwsux last month confirmed many things that I already knew, and introduced me to even more things that I needed to be more aware of (read my full write-up).

Last night was London Web Standards' UX Questions with Andy Budd (of CSS Mastery and Clearleft fame) My sketchnotes for this are at the bottom of the page.

*Breathe deeply.

Over half of the UK population has a mobile phone, and there are 40 million active mobile devices.

Using CSS3 and a little JavaScript, I've created a bookshelf for your blog.

This was very good week to be a web developer, some big announcements: Google announces WebM - a collaborative project with Mozilla, Microsoft and Opera all announcing that a new royalty-free HTML 5 format has been created using the VP8 codec.

Simple premise: web sites are designed for the screen, they are meant to be viewed through a computer and that’s about it.

It seems like making a tablet computer that is efficient, usable and cost-effective, can be quite a difficult proposition.

So, infamously, the iPhone OS doesn’t support Flash, encouraging its users to use the advantages of the webkit-based Safari to overcome any challenges that a lack of Flash can present.

In the office on Friday, I was talking about web site content, more specifically about links and SEO.

This is a follow-up to one of my most popular posts, "Getting a Facebook Login working with your application".

A friend of mine recently bought a HTC HD2, the extra large touch screen Windows Mobile 6.5 phone.

If technology is driven forward by demand and hype, Apple is at the helm of a HTML5 labelled chariot rampaging through the streets.

You know those days, the ones that turn into weeks, and when the weeks can quickly turn into months you start thinking I really should have stopped the rot when it was weeks (and before that, days).

I've signed up for O2 broadband (again) this week, and I've been quite impressed with their service for setting things up.

Just a quick post: a colleague of mine sent me this from Facebook CNet.

This is an opinion piece about Microsoft's Windows 7 Series phones.

This is the second part of a series on the construction of my blog.

I've found my use case for an iPad: working without wi-fi.

I've never really understood the netbook craze.

Last weekend I was sat on the tube (London underground to international readers), picadilly line to be exact, heading into central London.