Books

Using Microformats

In 2006 I wrote a PDF book for O’Reilly’s Short Cuts series entitled Using Microformats. The 45 page book, available in English, French and German, is available to purchase online through the O’Reilly Website.
[More about Using Microformats]

Papers

MSc Project

My MSc project at the University of Edinburgh dealt with a distributed SOAP web service that would add/edit/store BibTeX entries. The department could then query and incorporate the results into their papers.

With Google dropping SOAP web services and as more organizations move to RESTful APIs, the Atom publishing protocol, microformats and JSON, this paper probably hasn't aged as well as it could have. Not to mention the source code was written all in Java.
[More information about my Thesis]

Articles

Enhance Usability by Highlighting Search Terms

Co-written with Matt Riggott for A List Apart on August 10th, 2004, issue 186, this article is on the topic of highlighting search terms within the text of your site, based on referrer information from search engines.
[Enhance Usability by Highlighting Search Terms]

Density of Death

Given that the human race is quite old, what is the probability of someone having died in that spot before? With a few assumptions, known variables and a simple equation it is easy to figure out the density of death.
[More about how dense death is around us]

What is an Informatician?

Informatics is a growing occupation, but no one really knows what it means.
[More about the folks who practice informatics]

Linux Format: What on Earth are Microformats?

The January 2007, issue 88 of Linux Format contained my article entitled What on Earth are Microformats. It is a Question and Answer session describing microformats.
[More about Linux Format Article]

SitePoint: Microformats

On July 24th, 2007, I wrote an article entitled Microformats: More Meaning from Your Markup for Sitepoint describing various uses and consumers of the hCard and hCalendar microformats.
[Read article about Microformats]

XML.com: Parsing Microformats

On September 4th, 2007, I wrote an article entitled Parsing Microformats for xml.com describing the differences between parsing microformats in HTML and XML.
[Read article about Parsing Microformats]

Opera: Designing and Developing mobile web sites in the real world

For the Opera dev site, I wrote an article entitled Designing and Developing mobile web sites in the real world on November 7th, 2007. This is a synopsis of some mobile development we did for some of our clients.
[Read article about Mobile Web Development Part 1]

For Sitepoint, I wrote an article entitled Portable Social Networks: Take Your Friends with You on November 21st, 2007. which talks all about controlling your data online.
[Read article about Portable Social Networks]

Opera: Server-side capability detection for mobile devices

December 6th, 2007 was the second installment of articles about mobile development, Server-side capability detection for mobile devices.
[Read article about Detecting Mobile Devices Part 1]

24ways: Tracking Christmas Cheer with Google Charts

For the 11th day of advent on 24ways.org, I wrote a short tutorial on Google Charts API called Tracking Christmas Cheer with Google Charts.
[Read article about Google Charts]

Opera: Microformats Visualizations

The article Microformat Encoding and Visualization was the start of a series exploring alternative ways of viewing structured microformats data. Published December 19th, 2007.
[Read article about Microformat Encoding and Visualization]

SitePoint: 2008 Predictions

The Future of the Web: What to Expect in 2008 is a short list of nine items that I saw unfolding in 2008. It was run on January 2nd, 2008. It will be interesting to see how many come to fruition.
[Read article about my 2008 predictions]

Digital Web: CSS Not([hacks])

CSS Not([hacks]) ran in the January 7th, 2008 issue of Digital Web Magazine. Using some CSS3 selectors, you can add some progressive enhancements to your site to target specific browsers.
[Read article about CSS3 selectors]

Think Vitamin: Stay on :target

My first article for Think Vitamin, Stay on :target ran on January 31st, 2008. The article demonstrates some interesting interface features you can achieve with this little talked about CSS selector.
[Read article about CSS3 :target pseudo selector]

Opera: XFN encoding, extraction, and visualizations

February 21st, 2008 saw the first of a series of microformat related articles. This one is about XFN encoding, extraction, and visualizations.
[Read article about XFN Visualizations]

This article is about Your Social Graph: Exploring the Google API was published on February 27th, 2008.
[Read article about Google Social Graph API]

The article, Designing for the Mobile Web, was published on March 12th, 2008 and takes an introductory look into how to get started on the mobile web.
[Read article about how to get yourself a mobile site]

Specifications

GRDDL

Starting in 2006, I was one of the invited experts for the GRDDL working group. The GRDDL specification aims to supplement the RDF/XML concrete syntax with a flexible mechanism for using other XML syntaxes with the Resource Description Framework.
[W3C GRDDL Specification]

hCard

The microformat hCard allows for vCard files to be encoded semantically into XHTML. hCard is used to described people, places and organizations.
[hCard Specification]

hCalendar

The hCalendar microformat represents iCalendar files encoded semantically into XHTML. hCalendar allows for the description and aggregation of events across the web.
[hCalendar Specification]

Conferences

XTECH 2006

XTECH06 (May 16th - 19th) is the premier European conference for developers, information designers and managers working with web and standards-based technologies. Hotel Kransnapolsky, Amsterdam, Netherlands
[Microformats from the Ground Up]

www2006

www2006 (May 23rd - 26th) 15th annual world wide web conference. Edinburgh International Conference Centre
[Microformats, converting XHTML to vCards and iCalendars]

EuroOSCON06

EuroOSCON06 (September 18th - 21st) 2nd annual European Open Source Convention. Hotel Le Plaza, Brussels, Belgium
[Microformats: Web of Data]

Refresh Edinburgh

Refresh Edinburgh (May 22nd 2006, 8PM – 9PM) joins local web developers to discuss and learn about new technologies.
[Introducing Microformats into your website]

Refresh Edinburgh (April 6th 2007, 1PM – 6PM) a half-day conference for local Edinburgh developers.
[Introduction to Microformats]

XTECH07

XTECH07 (May 15th - 18th). The theme for that year’s conference was “The Ubiquitous Web”. Novotel Paris Tour Eiffel, Paris, France
[The Future of HTML]

Berlin Web 2.0 Expo 2007

Berlin Web 2.0 Expo (November 5th - 8th) is the place to learn, network, and engage in the European Web 2.0 community, Messe Berlin GmbH, Berlin, Germany
[Microformats a Web of Data]

Ráðstefna um vefmál 2008

Ráðstefna um vefmál 2008 Feburary 1st is a short afternoon conference connected with the SVEF Web Award Ceremony. Harvard sal, Hótel Sögu, Reykjavík, Iceland
[PaperNet: Internet on Paper]

Interviews

ZDNet Japan

“まず人にとって読みやすいこと、機械はその次”–Brian Suda氏が語るMicroformats, 末岡洋子, October 5th, 2006. While at EuroOSCON06 I did a short interview for ZDNet Japan about microformats.
[Read interview at ZDNet Japan]

Maryland Media

On January 2nd, 2007, I did a short set of Question and Answers with Martin of Maryland Media on the topic of microformats.
[Read interview at Maryland Media]

Microformats.dk

For the Danish microformats website I participated in a series of Question and Answers with Søren Johannessen which was published on November 30th, 2007.
[Read interview at Microformats.dk]

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