Adobe hit London yesterday with their on AIR tour and I had a seat. I'd been initially interested in AIR last year when I realised it was be a good entry point to developing a desktop app for the Mac (I've dabbled in Objective-C - but I can't get my head around the square brackets!) Overall [...]

As with most projects I work on, there's normally some JavaScript interaction. Often, however I've got all kinds of different versions of jQuery going on in these projects so when I try to access the latest functionality, and it groaks, I'll go sniffing around to check if it's the latest version. Never again!

I've just upgraded to Safari 3.1 and I'm trying to catalogue the list of available functionality. I'm certain this upgrade is driven by the announcement of the SDK for the iPhone, because in the demos showing that web development has been upgraded, it shows how features can be exploited on an iPhone - but as developers [...]

Last year I attended my first conference, d'Construct 07, and this year, I'm speaking at my first conference. I was asked if I could do a talk on jQuery for the QCon conference going on this week, which is where I'll be tomorrow. It's an hour long, and it'll be the first time I speak [...]

Microsoft's bastard child needs your love, but surely not forever? Simon raises a point that even though IE8 is on it's way - due to IE6's market share, IE8 is almost good for nothing. I don't agree.

Microsoft this week announced that they had reversed their decision on the whole backward rendering fiasco, and today released details of their plans for IE8. I think Microsoft have earned themselves a hearty pat on the back, and perhaps even a nicely baked brownie and a cuppa tea. Assuming they deliver on what they're promising. The [...]

This morning I was greeted by a big upgrade button on my wordpress admin page. Clicking on it returned: WordPress database error: [Unknown column 'user_nickname' in 'field list'] What's worse, it also broke my blog, because all the plugins were turned off by default. Here's how I fixed it.