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BrazilJS conference and a very interesting night in Brazil 24 Aug 2013 | 02:00 am
I’m currently in Porto Alege in South Brazil, to speak at the BrazilJS conference. It’s an excellent event, and speaking in a cinema to almost 1000 persons is very inspiring! The conference organizer...
The launch of Firefox OS – my thoughts and some history 2 Jul 2013 | 04:38 pm
It all started about two years ago. I had recently joined Mozilla, and about one or two months in, a wiki page surfaced. It was called B2G. The beginning B2G stod for Boot to Gecko, a name implying ...
Tidbits from my trip to San Francisco and Bogotá, Colombia 30 May 2013 | 03:26 pm
Recently I was traveling to San Francisco and Bogotá, Colombia, and I wrote frequent updates on Facebook. It seemed to be appreciated, so I’d like to share it in a collected form here. San Francisco A...
Geek Meet May 2013 with Marco Zehe 10 Apr 2013 | 01:01 pm
Sold out All seats have been taken. Please write a comment to be put on a waiting list, there are always a number of cancellations, so there’s still a chance. Time for the last Geek Meet before summer...
Thoughts on Blink, Google’s new rendering engine 4 Apr 2013 | 03:48 pm
Yesterday, Google announced that they’re moving from the WebKit rendering engine to their own, named Blink, for Chromium (and thus all Google products based on WebKit). What is Blink? Blink is a rende...
Geek Meet March 4th 2013, with Denise Jacobs 18 Feb 2013 | 02:01 pm
Sold out All seats have been taken. Please write a comment to be put on a waiting list, there’s always a number of cancellations, so there’s still a chance. Short notice, I know, but next Geek Meet wi...
WebKit: An Objective View 14 Feb 2013 | 08:38 pm
This post is co-written with Rob Hawkes, and as a follow-up to The WebKit culture & web rendering engine diversity We would like to, in a factual manner, break down what the possible outcomes of havin...
The WebKit culture & web rendering engine diversity 13 Feb 2013 | 06:06 pm
The web. Diversity. Options and competition. Today Opera announced that they’re moving from their own web rendering engine, Presto, to WebKit, and it’s described more technically in Opera’s Developer ...
Using FormData to send forms with XHR as key/value pairs 11 Feb 2013 | 09:07 pm
Being able to easily specify what to post with XMLHttpRequest is quite a powerful way of sending things to the server, using key/value pairs and FormData. However, many seem to have missed this gem, s...
Watching Skyfall 3 Feb 2013 | 02:51 pm
Watched Skyfall, the latest James Bond, yesterday. A review, you say? Sure. My review First ten minutes of the movie, there were so many product placements I thought I’d go blind. Then James encounter...
