Evan Williams on TED.com
The guys from TED have posted an interesting presentation by Evan Williams on their blog. Evan is has co-founded several web startups, namely Blogger and Twitter. In his talk, he explains the principle behind twitter and offers some insight in how the service was shaped by its users.
The Video can be seen here: Evan Williams on TED.com
If you, like me, tend to use logging with Firebug or even alert() quite often when developing JavaScript, you might be interested in Blackbird by G. Scott Olson. Blackbird is a simple utility that does nothing apart from displaying log messages and very basic JavaScript performance testing.
Logging JavaScript with Blackbird
Unlike utilities like Firebug or Venkman, Blackbird isn't a browser add-on but just some JS and CSS that you can add to your projects, therefore it can be used in any browser. The tool even works in IE6, what makes it pretty useful for cross-browser debugging.
You can see the tool in action at the project website, it's also a demo by itself. Nice layout idea btw, incuding the tool itself in the design as title artwork.
If you need more than just logging: Firebug lite simulates some features of Firebug and works the same way Blackbird does.
Last weekend, a special event took place: The first edition of <head> Conference. In case you haven't heard of it yet - <head> 2008 was a web conference that took place on the web, or as the organizers kept pointing out, everywhere.
Paul Boeg "live" at <head> Conference
There were some local venues, so called "hubs", were attendees could gather to follow the talks. Apart from that, people joined the conference online - both attendees and speakers: Instead of making you come to the web conference, let's make the web conference come to you.
The three-day conference covered a broad range of topics, such as community building, information graphics, etc. but the focus was clearly on web design and (frontend) development. more »
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