Archive for the 'Web Development' Category

This week’s issue of the excellent Digital Web Magazine leads with an article I’ve written about Distributed Social Networking, published under the title Portable Social Networking: Building Blocks of a Social Web

After a slightly longer drafting period than I’d planned, my article Kelkoo goes microformatic has gone live on the Yahoo! Developer Network blog.

It’s a lengthy piece on the recent redevelopment of Kelkoo and the microformats we added to it. It’s focused on the consumption of the formats though; putting them to use to build a [...]

Lately I’ve somewhat failed at blogging. Not in a colloquial meme ‘FAIL’ manner, in an actual if-you-put-me-in-a-competition-and-judged-me way. The lack of activity in both redesign and writing would have this site reclassified as a holding page for some other Ben Ward who would later poach the domain name from my idle mitts.

The advantage to being [...]

This is totally not posted because Chris Mills is sitting next to me, although his presence here did prompt me to try this out.

Internet Explorer cannot, by design, run alongside itself — e.g. IE6 and IE7 (although hacks exist). This is a pain for web development and testing sites. The hacks that exist don’t fully function.
Safari [...]

Publication of my mini Hack Day London effort to generate an RSS feed from a Flickr photoset.