Thursday, 29. May 2008, 09:51:24
opera, contacts, interactive, business
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Hi folks - it's been a while, so I thought I'd add a little post about an exciting new series we've got coming up on
dev.opera.com. I've got my friend R Blank, from renowned LA-based interactive consultancy
Almer/Blank to write a series of articles covering the business side of web/interactive freelancing, and they're turning out really nicely.
Check out the first part, on pricing!Later parts will cover other subjects such as project management, contracts, and budgeting.
Friday, 25. April 2008, 11:10:28
standards, opera, accessibility, ajax
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Hi folks, hope you are all well, and not too bored that this next blog post has taken so long. The title is a bit contrived, and is actually an amalgamation of the two things I was going to tell you about. Things have been pretty busy at Opera lately!
First of all, we've got another exciting new beta release of Kestrel, the new Opera desktop browser - beta 2, to be exact. It's got some exciting new additions, such as support for full CSS3 selectors and hsl, support for MathML, further speed optimizations, support for HTML5's getElementsByClassName, and improved synchronization of bookmarks speed dial sites and other settings through Opera Link.
Download it and play around.
Next, I've published a very interesting article on dev.opera.com written by the delectable Brothercake, called
Stop using Ajax! This article comments on how Ajax can do amazing things, but is often used gratuitously and unnecessarily, at the expense of accessibility. Cake makes a great argument here, and I think this should act as a wake up call to any developer to just think about what they are doing a bit more carefully, and take care that their application functionality doesn't end up locking out significant parts of their target audience.
Tuesday, 11. September 2007, 12:38:23
dconstruct2007, brighton, web
Hello and welcome to another one of my fabulously long winded conference reports. It feels weird to be attending a conference and not be working for
friends of ED any more - no longer will I be stalking the corridors, jumping out on people shouting "Can you spell style sheet? Good? D'ya want to write a book?"
In my new job it'll be more like "Whattya mean you never use Opera to browse the Web? D'you want a knuckle sandwich?" ;-)
I jest of course. My role at Opera is to make *friends* in the community, in the name of furthering the good fight towards future web standards adoption, help educate people to do great things on the Internet, and help Opera to make an even better browsing experience. I'll be publishing many articles on
http://dev.opera.com, so check it out periodically - you may well find something helpful on there!
Anyway, I digress. d.Construct was really good last year, and I'm expecting nothing less this year. A good mix of excellent informative presentations and sparkling conversation with luminaries as well as loonimaries (like a luminaries, but drunker. About half the Britpack count in this category.)
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