enhancement

Programming shouldn't be degrading

jp.stacey 19 September 2007

Steve compares “graceful degradation” with “progressive enhancement.” Mostly he takes issue (rightly) with the rhetorical spin that the former applies to the idea of building a website. But I think you can compare them with each other as if they were two different types of crowbar instead: two ways of prising open the task in hand.

Oxford Geek Nights reach double digits on January 21st

jp.stacey 7 January 2009
The tenth Oxford Geek Night is my seventh, and I've just got the hang of the PA.

It's the tenth Oxford Geek Night in two weeks! Who would have thought nearly two years ago that Natalie's brainchild would ever make it to the grand old age of ten? And the OGNs are striding purposefully towards their teens with two great keynote speakers.

First up will be Elliot Jay Stocks, designer and writer for .net.