Nach Deutschland
At the end of this month, after over 13 years in the UK, I will be making a big change to my life and moving to Germany. I will be living in Meerbusch-Büderich, close to the city of Düsseldorf, in Nordrhein-Westfalen.
An Irish Heroine
It’s a long time since I’ve written a non-technical post, but I’ve been meaning to write this one for a while. A largely unrelated (it mentioned the word ancestory) Twitter conversation between historians Lucy Inglis and Ellen Leslie reminded me to do so.
An ancestor of mine, Anne Devlin, played an important part in Irish history and its struggle against British rule in Ireland.
HTML5 Multimedia: Develop and Design now available
My book HTML5 Multimedia: Develop and Design is finally published and available at all good online book stores. Naturally times of availability in different countries and stores varies slightly (e.g. here in the UK), but overall the book is out.
On the disappearance of HTML5 <time>
A decision has been made by the power that is Ian Hixie, to remove the time element from the HTML5 specification and replace it with the data element. This in my view is a terrible decision that has been made by one person despite a lot of opposition to the initial idea that was put forward.
HTML5 Multimedia Tutorials on Adobe Developer Connection
I’m pleased to announce that I’ve written a three part tutorial series on HTML5 Multimedia for the Adobe Developer Connection.
HTML5: Guidelines for Web Developers – Book Review
As the author of an HTML5 book myself, I was recently asked to review a copy of another HTML5 book that was released earlier this year: HTML5: Guidelines for Web Developers by Austrian duo Klaus Förster and Bernd Öggl, who both work at the University of Innsbruck in Austria.