Ben Werdmuller

Author: Ben Werdmuller

  • Learn to program the Codecademy away

    I’m really taken with Codecademy, a series of free tutorials on learning to code. It’s incredibly simple, and you can take the first exercise without signing in. I know quite a few people whose portfolio of skills could be enhanced with a little bit of coding; this is a great start for them. I’m not […]

  • Decentralized social networking using web intents

    I believe that web intents are the last missing piece for decentralized social networking. (Previously I’ve talked about creating a social web architecture using Activity Streams and OAuth; this builds on that idea.) Picture this chain of events: I visit your website, and see that you have a “connect to me” button[1]. I click the button, […]

  • Your website is not the destination

    I wrote a piece for the Australia Council of the Arts: The web wasn’t designed to be made of pristine brochure pages. If you’ve ever tried to manage a web project, you’ll know that each version of each web browser displays pages just a little bit differently, making perfectly-rendered designs impossible. What’s less obvious is […]

  • Uncreative thinking for such a creative industry

    I wrote a post – okay, a rant – over on Google+ about sexism in the software industry: Tim O’Reilly had to post a code of conduct for his conferences, which made immediate waves. (Quite a few of the women I know who aren’t in the tech sphere shared it with me.) I’ve heard accounts […]