He’s the man who got us networking at The Future of Web Apps and learning online via Treehouse. Tom May meets the American entrepreneur who’s passionate about breathing energy into the UK startup scene
Clients sometimes need a little push in the right direction and be taught about the mysteries of web design. Paddy Donnelly and Jack Osborne, the brains behind Wee Nudge, address 10 touchy subjects to show you how to do it
We've asked some of the industry's leading designers to recommend their favourite Christmas gifts. So if you're still stuck and don't know what to get for your geek friends, here are more than 50 gift ideas for your inspiration
Designers need to be planning for career longevity, says Christopher Cashdollar, creative director for Happy Cog. His 10 tips will get you thinking beyond the pixel and on a path towards long-term professional relevance
Gavin Elliott, who ran the DIBI web conference for Codeworks, talks to Oliver Lindberg about why he has given it up, what he's learned and what we can expect from his own project, next year's Industry Conference
Writing micro-level design criteria for individual features can help you invent better solutions. In this example leading user experience specialist Robert Hoekman Jr explains how he established design criteria for Myspace and applied them
Irene Pereyra, director of UX and strategy at digital agency Fantasy Interactive, rounds up 10 top tips to help you deliver an amazing interactive user experience
24 ways is not the only advent calendar for web geeks. There's one for everyone, covering topics as diverse as web fonts, performance, PHP and Perl. We compile the best ones for you to check out and talk to their creators, too
Gimme Bar enables you to save bits of the web instead of just bookmarking them. Founder Cameron Koczon tells Tanya Combrinck about the importance of owning the content you’ve collected
Jim Highsmith, one of the co-authors of the Agile manifesto, reflects on 10 years of Agile development and examines how it can keep moving forward as a movement
Technology conferences increasingly release videos of their presentations online. Simon Willison, the co-founder and CEO of Lanyrd, presents 15 of the best of 2011
Mike Kapetanovic, founder of Reef Light Interactive, lists eight things freelancers and agencies should do to prepare for the end of the year and ring in the new one
This year HTML5 truly rocked. Oli Studholme, one of the HTML5 Doctors, runs through 20 of the best sites and covers semantics, audio, client-side web apps, canvas as well as SVG and WebGL and looks ahead to the future
Today Jon Hicks' much anticipated Icon Handbook, published by Five Simple Steps, is going on sale. We present an exclusive excerpt on creating favicons
Susan Chadwick, co-founder of Edge Testing Solutions, looks back at her top five, well publicised web launch crashes and offers advice on how you can avoid the indignity of apologising to customers when your website falls over