Michael Anthony Heap

Nowadays, most of the services we need to access programatically provide an API or an RSS feed of their data for us to pull in and parse. However, some sites still don’t provide the data, be it because they’re a bit behind the times or they just don’t want to make it easy for us…

While looking through some old starred items in Google Reader, I noticed a snippet of jQuery that you could use to log the objects returned by jquery selectors and inspect them in the console. While it was very useful, there was a lot of room for expansion. After looking at the Console API for Firebug…

I spent this weekend at PHPNW’s second annual conference in Manchester – and I loved it. The sessions were informative, the venue was comfy (the floor in track 1 was much better than the seats ) and clean, and the food was outstanding. I met lots of awesome people (most of whom I can’t remember…

I spent yesterday at UnSheffield, and I’ve got to admit, I had a great time. I kicked the sessions off by attending a talk on content for mobile phones, which was chaired by Mike Smith. We had some good ideas, mainly focused on data being provided as RSS and the phone handling presentation itself -…