Ben Werdmuller

Category: Software development

  • The Internet Explorer 8 web developer’s dilemma

    This post originally appeared on werd.io. Google Analytics has announced it will end IE8 support by the end of the year, following Google Apps, which ended support for the browser last November. Legacy browser support remains one of the hardest problems in web development. For years, Internet Explorer 6 was a bugbear, because enterprise applications […]

  • What’s the best way to give developers space?

    Like all my new posts and articles, this piece originally appeared on werd.io. Software developers are not technicians. Whereas technicians are employed to do practical work involving technical equipment, the development process is more akin to writing. Paul Graham was absolutely right when he pointed out that: […] Of all the different types of people […]

  • The IndieWeb as a minimum viable social web ecosystem

    I wrote a post as a submission for the W3C’s upcoming Workshop on Social Standards: The Future of Business. Although there have been significant advances in the field over the last five years, there remains a need to prove the business value of decentralized web technologies. There are so many opportunities for companies online that […]

  • werd.io and idno

    I’m posting over at werd.io, a site I’ve set up based on my idno software. I wrote a short technical introduction to the platform: idno is a personal attempt at building a publishing platform that adheres to IndieWeb principles: own your own data, publish on your own site, use existing social websites for dissemination but […]