Bits and Bobs (Book Updates, the H5BP Ant Build Script, CanvasJS and My First Six Months at Sapient)

Time to share some random updates. Mobile Web App in Practice My Manning book has shifted tracks slightly. It was originally going to be a cookbook. It’s now part of Manning’s In Practice series so the title has changed to reflect that. With that slight adjustment out of the way we’re heading into serious production […]

My Presentation and Some Photos from the Redefining Perspectives Event in New Delhi

I did another version of HTML5 From the Front Lines (download: ppt and pdf.) It was well received. Judging by the 45 minute (!!!) question and answer session alone it was one of the best presentations I’ve ever done. The Sapient team that put on the event was phenomenal. Here are a couple of photos. […]

Professional jQuery

The Amazon page is updated with my name (even if the cover is still listing just the single author), so it’s as good a time as any to officially announce Professional jQuery, a book I co-authored for WROX over the past few months. The project fell into my lap during a period in which I […]

Big Book Update: Now with 100% More Co-Authors

I just wanted to deliver on the book update I promised last week.Mobile Web App Cookbook is rolling now, with actual words being written. That’s pretty exciting for me. What’s even more exciting is that we’re finally set with co-authors to do the technical chapters. I wanted to take a minute to introduce them, since […]

Using the Geolocation API

The following is probably the last long-form article you’ll see here for a while. I’m in full on book mode for the next couple of months, so I’m not expecting to be writing a ton here for the foreseeable future. Anyway, the following is actually inspired by the kind of work we’re going to be […]