11 Oct 2011

So what do you do if you lose a public battle to change the face of JavaScript?

If you're Google, you decide to go it alone, implement what you want to anyway, and then tell the world that it is going to replace JavaScript.

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Google Dart, or ‘how we lost the ECMAScript 4 battle so we decided to create our own language instead’.

Introducing Dart, Google's second shot at ECMAScript 4.

30 Aug 2011

tagtuesday

Here’s a new little Twitter game for you:

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#tagtuesday

Play a game of Twitter tag to discover interesting people to follow on specific subject areas.

28 Aug 2011

Update 2011 is part of the Brighton Digital Festival

September is going to be crazy.

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Next month is going to be amazing!

Helping with the Brighton Digital Festival, staging Update 2011, teaching kids at local schools to program, flying to Sweden to teach my iOS workshop, speaking at Improving Reality, and attending dConstruct and Flash on the Beach… I have quite a month ahead.

24 Aug 2011

paypal-and-your-conference

Following my PayPal nightmare with the Update conference, I decided to create a site to warn future event and conference organizers that using PayPal could be detrimental to the health of their event: ConferencesBurnedByPayPal.tumblr.com.

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Announcing a new tumblelog: Conferences Burned by PayPal

Using PayPal to sell tickets for your conference or event could be detrimental to its health. This new blogs warns organizers of the dangers.

12 Aug 2011

If you've been following my tweets, you'll know that a few weeks ago PayPal froze my account without notice. This is the business account for my company that accepts payments for Update 2011, the independent mobile conference I'm organizing in Brighton this September as part of the Brighton Digital Festival.

PayPal freezing accounts is nothing new. They do it all the time. And they've done it to other conferences also, including dConstruct, and more recently to Remy's Full Frontal.

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How PayPal could have killed my independent conference (if I had trusted them, which, thankfully, I didn’t)