I went to the Responsive Day Out event this Friday. Rather than write about each speaker I want to try and pull out the major themes of the day. Web and asset fonts There were a number of good practical take aways from Richard Rutter, Josh Emerson and Andy Hume…
I have just released a brand new microformats 2 parser for node.js. You maybe thinking microformats are so 2006, but this is new. Hear me out… Demo API /> http://microformat2-node.jit.su/ Try the API with: /> http://the-pastry-box-project.net/ /> http://microformats.org/ New life in the semantic web A lot has changed in the…
Last weekend I attended NodeCopter Brighton, a day of hacking AR-Drone’s and node.js. I wanted to control the drone by hand jestures using the Kinect’s motion detection abilities. Links to the high-res versions (.mov, .mp4 or .ogv) of the video Hackdays are funny, sometimes everything comes together, other times small…
I have just uploaded a new version of microformat-node. The parser now takes between 30-40 milliseconds to parse an average page, about 8 times the speed of the last version. Features of new version About 8x faster at parsing Will now load onto Windows based hosting solutions correctly Inbuilt cache…
I have built a node.js microformats parser, it is based on my previous javascript parsing code. It has been packaged up so you can easily be add to your projects using npm. Source code: https://github.com/glennjones/microformat-node /> Test server : http://microformat-node.jit.su Install npm install microformat-node or git clone http://github.com/glennjones/microformat-node.git cd microformat-node…
From this Friday I am looking for new things to do. I have pulled out of working full time at the company I co-founded. I will remain a director and major shareholder, and no Madgex is not in trouble in fact the opposite, it has just had its most profitable…
Last Friday I went to DevUp 2012 in Barcelona. The event focused on HTML5, but interestingly for me it mixed two different development communities. As well as web developers there is a whole world of games developers who are embracing HTML5 or more precisely Canvas. Darius Kazemi from bocoup did…
Let me start by saying the good friend is an API. Google have decided to close down the Social Graph API (SGAPI) on the 20th April 2012. I have spent the last couple of months thinking of a measured response, although I do somewhat agree with Jeremy Keith’s sentiment. />…
After giving a talking at UXCamp Brighton about Web Intents, I ended up talking to a few designers about it and how they would love to help with its development and adoption. In fact we all felt that the design community was sometimes left out of the development process, when…
Well what an amazing experience fullfrontal was this year. Had lots of fun doing the talk once I got my computer to display the slides (sorry about that). Big thank you to Remy for giving me the opportunity to speak and for putting on Fullfrontal. /> /> /> View more…