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Product Review: Safari 3.0 Beta for Windows I spent most of the afternoon fannying around with Safari on Windows in one way or another, so I thought I'd write up my first impressions. First off, things I liked: Fast Javascript - javascript heavy web… more »

The Safari 3 Public Beta has launched and now there's a Windows version! Of course I immediately downloaded it but I found it something of a disappointment - when I ran it there was no text getting displayed anywhere at all (the title was blank, the men… more »

Review: Google Data APIs at GDD07UK, The Brewery in London, 52 Chiswell Street, London 14:45 to 15:30 The GData APIs are a uniform interface into almost all the Google applications (Blogger, Mail, Calendar, Spreadsheets etc.). They're all based on an e… more »

Review: New features in the Maps API at GDD07UK, The Brewery in London, 52 Chiswell Street, London 13:45 to 14:30 The talk started with a history/overview of Google Maps API - this was quite useful to me, because I wasn't that familiar with API to star… more »

OK, so I know I said I'd post at the weekend, and instead it's been a week, but I'm sure I'll catch up eventually... In this post I'll cover the morning - basically the keynote and lunch, and yes, before you ask, in my opinion anything up until the end… more »

Review: Why Agile Teams Fail at Skills Matter, Sekforde Street, London 18:30 to 20:30 Erik started with a discussion of what motivates people towards agile practices. He quoted a recent study (I'm not sure, but I think he meant this one from the IEEE)… more »

I was building a prototype today using the Scriptaculous Draggable object. It was a fairly simple idea, a set of 'items' along the top of the page which could be dragged onto a selection of timeslots below, the idea being that by dragging the item to th… more »