Chichester
My first real drive in England, heading down to the south coast yesterday.
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The Internet Explorer 8 web developer's dilemma
This post originally appeared on werd.io. Google Analytics has announced it will end IE8 support by the end of the year, following Google Apps, which ended support for the browser last November. Legacy browser support remains one of the hardest problems in web development. For years, Internet Explorer 6
Software development
What's the best way to give developers space?
Like all my new posts and articles, this piece originally appeared on werd.io. Software developers are not technicians. Whereas technicians are employed to do practical work involving technical equipment, the development process is more akin to writing. Paul Graham was absolutely right when he pointed out that: [...] Of all
idno
The IndieWeb as a minimum viable social web ecosystem
I wrote a post as a submission for the W3C's upcoming Workshop on Social Standards: The Future of Business. great post to readargue I believe that these compelling business models exist, and that they are most easily discoverable in the enterprise. However, belief is not demonstration: we must
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Introducing Herebe
I wrote a short novel about Silicon Valley, startups, and, well, dragons. It's a little different to the kind of thing I normally share here, but bear with me. From a review on Amazon UK: This book is a bit hard to categorise. It has elements of fairy
idno
What is idno?
I wrote a post over at werd.io about idno, the open source publishing tool I've been building: What decisions would I make if I was building Elgg today, in 2013? What would I do the same way, and what would I do differently? It's still
idno
Decentralized comments and the IndieWeb
I just stumbled on this old thread by Marc Canter and Stephen Downes (emphasis mine): The primary use of OpenID should not simply be identification, but also, to tell remote sites where to direct our actions. So – in a sense – I carry all my own home website tools with me
Data control
Owning your data is cool - but having your own awesome site is cooler
This post was originally published over on werd.io, my idno-powered site, where I'm hosting all of my new posts and social media updates. There's been a lot of news stories lately about how technology companies like Google, Apple, Microsoft and Yahoo! may or may
Data control
werd.io and idno
I'm posting over at werd.io, a site I've set up based on my idno software. I wrote a short technical introduction to the platform: IndieWeb principles Right now I'm using it as a blog, but the intention is that it could power a
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Respectful software
I'm using the term respectful software to describe software products and services that: * Maintain your ownership and control over your data. * Allow you to export anything you've entered or imported into it. * Allow you to extend their functionality with other software, without having to ask them
Software development
HTTP signatures
It looks like I'm not the only person who likes the idea of signed HTTP requests as an authentication method. Joyent and Digital Bazaar have co-written an Internet draft for cryptographically signed HTTP requests: Several web service providers have invented their own schemes for signing HTTP requests,
Data control
Mobile devices as keys to your personal cloud
Jotting down some quick notes for something to consider: mobile devices as proxies that redirect content types to services as required, cacheing data on its way to / from the Internet. Some properties and use cases: * I take a picture, and my mobile device knows about the services I use that