Palatino Consulting, One Year In

While I’ve been consulting independently for slightly more than a year, I’ve been doing so under the Palatino Consulting banner for exactly one year, this week. It’s been going pretty well, thanks for asking. I’m at the point now where I’m starting to think about whether or not I want to expand this business to […]

Google Chrome Reverses Course- Will Implement Pointer Events

This is great news. One of the worst chapters from a standards perspective in The Uncertain Web was on user input. At the time I wrote the chapter, I had a relatively positive tone. The flow of the chapter led to a discussion of Pointer Events and how, with support in IE and intended implementation […]

Navigating the Uncertain Web

The current talk I’m giving distills the second chapter of The Uncertain Web into 45 or so minutes (I’ve got the powerpoint on Github if you’re interested.) As I continue to discuss topics relating to the book here on the blog, I thought it would be useful to outline the core concepts of that chapter […]

The Uncertain Web: Pointer Event Polyfill and Chrome Fragmentation

The Uncertain Web might be out, but that doesn’t mean that I’m done talking about the current state of the open web platform. I’m going to get back to writing a little bit here (as there are no more books on the immediate horizon) and as part of that I’m going to cover some topics […]

A Long Journey Reaches a Happy Conclusion: The Uncertain Web is Out In All Formats

It’s true. After a two year odyssey, The Uncertain Web is finally out in every format that matters. The book has actually been out for a little over a month in multiple ebook formats from O’Reilly and Amazon; but owing to a slight production hiccup it hasn’t regularly been available in print until now (technically […]