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From the archives

Here you will find a selection of tasty morsels in reverse chronological order. Feel free to peruse them at your leisure, although no guarantees as to quality or satisfaction are made. (Some of it stinks.)

  1. The Best Forms Implementation I've Ever Built 19 August 2011
  2. The Lure of On-page Editing 29 March 2011
  3. Ideas of March 15 March 2011
  4. A Consistent User Experience 12 March 2011
  5. Stop Building Sites In Subfolders 09 March 2011
  6. OpenID Has Failed. So What's Next? 08 March 2011
  7. Launch Week 30 November 2010
  8. The Curse of max_file_uploads 01 June 2010
  9. It's Not the Pay, It's the Wall 26 March 2010
  10. Moving from Basecamp to ActiveCollab 24 January 2010
  11. How To Create 100 Unique MOO MiniCards 22 October 2009
  12. What's In Your Utility Belt? 15 October 2009
  13. Own Every Aspect of The Design 09 October 2009
  14. The Fallacy of Page Zooming 18 June 2009
  15. Five Interesting Ways To Publish with Perch 11 June 2009
  16. Launching Perch 01 June 2009
  17. 10 Cost Effective Web Development Techniques 18 May 2009
  18. Easing The Path From Design to Development 18 May 2009
  19. Supersleight jQuery Plugin for Transparent PNGs in IE6 12 March 2009
  20. The Cost of Accessibility 25 February 2009
  21. HTML and Web Standards Training 12 January 2009
  22. The Myth of Stability 29 December 2008
  23. Roadtesting a Sumo Omni Beanbag Chair 30 November 2008
  24. The Trouble with BarCamp 14 October 2008
  25. What Brian Cant Never Taught You About Metadata 14 October 2008
  26. Coping With Internet Explorer's Mishandling of Buttons 30 July 2008
  27. The Clangers' Guide to Microformats 06 July 2008
  28. When Bugs Collide: Fixing Text Dimming in Firefox 2 19 June 2008
  29. Content Management Without the Killing 03 June 2008
  30. Content Management Nightmares 13 May 2008
  31. Web Standards and Accessibility with Adobe Spry 10 May 2008
  32. London Web Week 05 April 2008
  33. Don't Import, Subscribe 28 March 2008
  34. Project Management Doesn't Have To Be Hard 26 March 2008
  35. Armadillo v3 24 March 2008
  36. Version Targeting and JavaScript Libraries 24 January 2008
  37. How To Set an Apple Touch Icon for Any Site 17 January 2008
  38. Moving hkit Forward 16 January 2008
  39. hKit now on Google Code 07 January 2008
  40. Preparing for 24ways 23 November 2007
  41. PHP mail() and The Path of No Return 02 November 2007
  42. Time to Take Stock 13 August 2007
  43. PHP Build Systems 03 August 2007
  44. IWMW, Amazon Web Services and hKit 17 July 2007
  45. hAtom and Last.fm Shoutboxes 26 June 2007
  46. The State of Textpattern 14 May 2007
  47. Why Your Forum Software Needs OpenID 21 March 2007
  48. Impressions of The New AirPort Extreme 26 February 2007
  49. Machine Tags: Tagging Revisited 24 January 2007
  50. UK Geek Events 23 January 2007
  51. Changes Afoot at WaSP 22 December 2006
  52. 24ways Returns For 2006 01 December 2006
  53. Textpattern and the Technorati Link Count Widget 23 November 2006
  54. Can Microformats be Validated? 26 October 2006
  55. Can Your Website be Your API? 22 October 2006
  56. From BarCamp to d.Construct 04 September 2006
  57. Microformats Tools and Upcoming Events 22 August 2006
  58. JSON All The Way 10 August 2006
  59. Joining Yahoo! 05 August 2006
  60. hKit version 0.5 22 July 2006
  61. The Biggest Unsolved Problems of Web Design 05 July 2006
  62. hKit version 0.4 23 June 2006
  63. hKit version 0.3 22 June 2006
  64. hKit Microformats Toolkit for PHP 21 June 2006
  65. Maps, Microformats and LPG 13 June 2006
  66. Sleight Update: Alpha PNG Backgrounds in IE 31 May 2006
  67. hCalendar in Endo 23 May 2006
  68. The Dangers of Automatically Generating hCards 11 May 2006
  69. Jumping Off Points 03 May 2006
  70. Adding hCard to Vitamin 26 April 2006
  71. The Term 'Subscribe' Can Mislead 21 April 2006
  72. Five Most Important Considerations 21 April 2006
  73. Microformats in Dreamweaver 23 March 2006
  74. Google Page Creator 23 February 2006
  75. The Future of Web Apps Summit 10 February 2006
  76. Site Maps for Web Applications 30 January 2006
  77. Four Things 24 January 2006
  78. So That Was 24ways 05 January 2006
  79. 24 Ways in 24 Days 01 December 2005
  80. d.Construct Podcasts 15 November 2005
  81. Web Development on a Microsoft Platform 01 November 2005
  82. More After The Jump 19 October 2005
  83. Writeboard Document Locking 04 October 2005
  84. Web-based Collaboration Round-up 03 October 2005
  85. iWork Installation Nightmares 17 September 2005
  86. Bigger Than My Telly 15 September 2005
  87. European Parliament: Nil Point 13 September 2005
  88. eBay To Buy Skype 12 September 2005
  89. Upgraded to Textpattern 4.0.1 11 September 2005
  90. Local Textile 09 September 2005
  91. Taking it Personally 03 September 2005
  92. Textpattern 4.0 15 August 2005
  93. Call For Hackers 03 August 2005
  94. Paging Large Datasets in SQL Server 11 July 2005
  95. The Office 07 July 2005
  96. New Camera 22 June 2005
  97. Theft by Blogging 12 June 2005
  98. On Windows Server 2003 Web Edition 10 June 2005
  99. LUGRadio Live 2005 02 June 2005
  100. Tigers and Penguins 18 May 2005
  101. End of The Road for Fireworks? 18 April 2005
  102. Acid2 Let Loose 13 April 2005
  103. Everyone Has a Clock 10 April 2005
  104. Emerging from the Shower 05 April 2005
  105. Podcast Aggregators Should Support Cookies 08 March 2005
  106. User Defined Functions Considered Harmful 03 March 2005
  107. Getting Very Dynamic at XML.com 10 February 2005
  108. Designing URIs 07 February 2005
  109. Podcasting 18 January 2005
  110. Seeking New Opportunities 05 January 2005
  111. Predictions for 2005 30 December 2004
  112. XMLHttpRequest for The Masses 12 December 2004
  113. Mental Clarity 07 December 2004
  114. Developing Web apps for IE Only 25 November 2004
  115. A Question of Title 20 November 2004
  116. Supermarket Usability 18 November 2004
  117. CSS Anthology 15 November 2004
  118. Web Applications are Easy 11 November 2004
  119. Embedding Macromedia Flash in XHTML 26 October 2004
  120. To Apple Care or Not To Apple Care 22 October 2004
  121. When Vendor Tie-In Bites Back 16 October 2004
  122. The Joel Test for Web Development - Conclusions 04 October 2004
  123. The Joel Test for Web Development - Part 3 26 September 2004
  124. The Joel Test for Web Development - Part 2 22 September 2004
  125. The Joel Test for Web Development 21 September 2004
  126. Web Development is Software Development 17 September 2004
  127. The Importance of Good Client Liaison 08 September 2004
  128. The Dangers of Redesigning a Web Application 01 September 2004
  129. Curl for HTTP Debugging 25 August 2004
  130. Armadillo v2 21 August 2004
  131. Browse Happy 20 August 2004
  132. A Font for Programming 18 August 2004
  133. Geekend 17 August 2004
  134. Rested 08 August 2004
  135. Accessing a Windows 2003 Share from OS X 29 July 2004
  136. Firefox and The IEAK 28 July 2004
  137. Referrer Log Spam 21 July 2004
  138. Locate on OS X 13 July 2004
  139. Authentication Required 08 July 2004
  140. Scalability vs Performance 05 July 2004
  141. And Breathe Out 30 June 2004
  142. Interview with ... Me 24 June 2004
  143. Colour me Spammy 16 June 2004
  144. By the way of an example 15 June 2004
  145. Take the Weather With You 14 June 2004
  146. Who Cares Anyway? 08 June 2004
  147. The Slippery Slope 01 June 2004
  148. Collaborative Document Editing 28 May 2004
  149. Experience is More Important than Knowledge Of Syntax 21 May 2004
  150. Writing The Code is the Easy Bit 18 May 2004
  151. Page Manipulation with W3C DOM 14 May 2004
  152. CSS Editors 06 May 2004
  153. Running a Development Server 04 May 2004
  154. Subversion 27 April 2004
  155. Comments on Comments 26 April 2004
  156. Kittens and Letters 22 April 2004
  157. Geocaching 20 April 2004
  158. Page 23 15 April 2004
  159. Central Email Signatures 15 April 2004
  160. Icons for Web Applications 10 April 2004
  161. Textpattern Plugins 06 April 2004
  162. Someone who once wrote a book 03 April 2004
  163. My Car 30 March 2004
  164. Defensive Design for the Web 25 March 2004
  165. Preventing Comment Spam 22 March 2004
  166. Centralised Authentication 22 March 2004
  167. Take-out Interfaces 17 March 2004
  168. Processing Words 15 March 2004
  169. Blog Anniversaire 11 March 2004
  170. Web Standards Solutions 09 March 2004
  171. Natural Order 04 March 2004
  172. Blog Data Exchange 02 March 2004
  173. ASP Web Development 02 March 2004
  174. The Gas Man Cometh 26 February 2004
  175. Textpattern Public Gamma Release 24 February 2004
  176. iSight and Housekeeping 22 February 2004
  177. Search Engine Near Misses 20 February 2004
  178. Selling Software Online 17 February 2004
  179. Form Elements in Firefox 12 February 2004
  180. About 11 February 2004
  181. Elegance 10 February 2004
  182. Installing OS X Developer Tools from DVD 07 February 2004
  183. Site Upgrades 05 February 2004
  184. Bluetooth KVM 01 February 2004
  185. iDesk 01 February 2004
  186. Inner Demon 29 January 2004
  187. Using BBEdit with SMB Shares 25 January 2004
  188. MySQL and GarageBand (unrelated) 24 January 2004
  189. As a Parrot 23 January 2004
  190. First Impressions 19 January 2004
  191. The Waiting Game 15 January 2004
  192. PowerBook 13 January 2004
  193. On Spam 10 January 2004
  194. Social Networking Technology 08 January 2004
  195. Mailio 03 January 2004
  196. Favourite PHP Tricks 02 January 2004
  197. PHP Duplicate Names 01 January 2004
  198. Alternative and Punk 31 December 2003
  199. Sir TBL 31 December 2003
  200. iPod 28 December 2003
  201. Tis the Season 24 December 2003
  202. Data Protection 22 December 2003
  203. Recovering a Windows Profile 19 December 2003
  204. CSS Underscore Hack 17 December 2003
  205. Windows is a bitch ... and then it dies 17 December 2003
  206. Delivery Failure 14 December 2003
  207. From T68i to T610 11 December 2003
  208. Old Dog New Tricks 08 December 2003
  209. Rock the Taskbar 06 December 2003
  210. PHP Sessions Update 05 December 2003
  211. Sessions, hah! What are they good for? 03 December 2003
  212. 70% Spam 30 November 2003
  213. PHP on OS X 26 November 2003
  214. Panther 23 November 2003
  215. Drawing networks 20 November 2003
  216. Class structure 18 November 2003
  217. Creating and Designing Your Own Personal Disaster 17 November 2003
  218. Application Interface Design 17 November 2003
  219. We have a winner 14 November 2003
  220. My Goodness, My Guinness, MySQL 13 November 2003
  221. Search me 12 November 2003
  222. Dir vs ls 10 November 2003
  223. Paper-centric authoring environments 10 November 2003
  224. New job 05 November 2003
  225. ReUSEIT judging underway 03 November 2003
  226. The Damned Key 31 October 2003
  227. XML, DTD, Radio Silence 30 October 2003
  228. What shape is your phone book? 28 October 2003
  229. PHP class properties 26 October 2003
  230. Tabbed browsing in Safari 25 October 2003
  231. ALA Returns 22 October 2003
  232. Making Progress 20 October 2003
  233. More on XML 16 October 2003
  234. It's just this damn XML 14 October 2003
  235. VNC 12 October 2003
  236. Caveat Emptor 09 October 2003
  237. Important acronyms 08 October 2003
  238. Eolas Patent Workarounds 08 October 2003
  239. Changes to IE 07 October 2003
  240. Mail 06 October 2003
  241. Tart\'s Knickers 03 October 2003
  242. Building a Wall 30 September 2003
  243. Talking Web Standards 29 September 2003
  244. I gots me a Favicon 25 September 2003
  245. Firebird Favicons 24 September 2003
  246. The IC-Style 22 September 2003
  247. More on IIS Lockdown 19 September 2003
  248. 404 - Error Badly Assigned 18 September 2003
  249. Dear Apple Computer 16 September 2003
  250. XHTML 2.0 again 14 September 2003
  251. The times they are onchanging 11 September 2003
  252. CSS in Dreamweaver 10 September 2003
  253. I'm an idiot 09 September 2003
  254. Too good to be true 09 September 2003
  255. ClearType anything but 08 September 2003
  256. Welcome to Teletubbie Land 07 September 2003
  257. Flash Satay resurgence 04 September 2003
  258. Firebird bookmarks 03 September 2003
  259. So near, and yet 02 September 2003
  260. Milestones / Millstones 27 August 2003
  261. Flash Satay Poll 20 August 2003
  262. Treading the past 19 August 2003
  263. Re-Useit Design Contest 15 August 2003
  264. Attention Fireworks and Photoshop users 13 August 2003
  265. This man must be stopped 10 August 2003
  266. Alone 08 August 2003
  267. The dot.com chair 05 August 2003
  268. Employment 04 August 2003
  269. Brief encounters 30 July 2003
  270. Advertising 29 July 2003
  271. Usability on the cheap 29 July 2003
  272. Blogathon 26 July 2003
  273. Duplicate, Offset, Rotate 26 July 2003
  274. Oh look ... 24 July 2003
  275. Mozilla 1.5 alpha 24 July 2003
  276. Greatest Cars 21 July 2003
  277. “Javacode” 19 July 2003
  278. Optimizing ASP 17 July 2003
  279. Scrubbin' and soapin' 16 July 2003
  280. Textpattern Users 15 July 2003
  281. Hot 15 July 2003
  282. Flirtations with Windows XP 13 July 2003
  283. Sleight of hand 08 July 2003
  284. Echo, Charlie, Bravo 07 July 2003
  285. Ti Waits for No Man 05 July 2003
  286. Yes! 05 July 2003
  287. Object, Echo, Tango 04 July 2003
  288. Adobe, what have you done? 02 July 2003
  289. Bandwidth: big issue? 30 June 2003
  290. Popup blocking for IE 26 June 2003
  291. Safari goes gold 23 June 2003
  292. Email 'more important' than phone 21 June 2003
  293. Blurred 18 June 2003
  294. Bye bye IE, IE goodbye 14 June 2003
  295. GIF patent 12 June 2003
  296. Deja Fruit 12 June 2003
  297. Odd(ie) evening 10 June 2003
  298. Cheap accommodation 02 June 2003
  299. No future stand-alone IE? 31 May 2003
  300. Comments bug fix 28 May 2003
  301. Why the Internet is a cloud 23 May 2003
  302. The people's web 20 May 2003
  303. Struggle 18 May 2003
  304. Drab 15 May 2003
  305. Textile bookmarklet 13 May 2003
  306. Switching on the LAMP 09 May 2003
  307. Greetings from Planet Cotton Wool 04 May 2003
  308. An Inspector Calls 28 April 2003
  309. On the subject of RSS 23 April 2003
  310. No upgrade yet 21 April 2003
  311. Web users don't read 17 April 2003
  312. RSS problems 17 April 2003
  313. DIY-related injuries 13 April 2003
  314. Upgrades immanent 10 April 2003
  315. The Matrix: Re-wotnot'd 09 April 2003
  316. Blogdaq 09 April 2003
  317. Mozilla 1.4a 03 April 2003
  318. Hardware and headaches 02 April 2003
  319. They call it progress 31 March 2003
  320. Screen everywhere I look 27 March 2003
  321. Microsoft quits W3C panel 26 March 2003
  322. Calling all Dreamweaver extension developers 25 March 2003
  323. I find this guy to be profoundly unnecessary 23 March 2003
  324. I'm a big OS X fan 21 March 2003
  325. I want one of these 21 March 2003
  326. Alcohol inside 20 March 2003
  327. CVS: Considerably Vexing System 18 March 2003
  328. New rhino on the block 16 March 2003
  329. Feeling the neighbors 15 March 2003
  330. Who threw the final stone? 14 March 2003
  331. Internet Fridge 13 March 2003
  332. Can-do 13 March 2003
  333. IT & IE 12 March 2003
  334. Nightmare on App Street 12 March 2003
  335. I have to start sometime 11 March 2003

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Drew McLellan (@drewm) has been hacking on the web since around 1996 following an unfortunate incident with a margarine tub. Since then he’s spread himself between both front- and back-end development projects, and now is Director and Senior Web Developer at edgeofmyseat.com in Maidenhead, UK (GEO: 51.5217, -0.7177). Prior to this, Drew was a Web Developer for Yahoo!, and before that primarily worked as a technical lead within design and branding agencies for clients such as Nissan, Goodyear Dunlop, Siemens/Bosch, Cadburys, ICI Dulux and Virgin.net. Somewhere along the way, Drew managed to get himself embroiled with Dreamweaver and was made an early Macromedia Evangelist for that product. This lead to book deals, public appearances, fame, glory, and his eventual downfall.

Picking himself up again, Drew is now a strong advocate for best practises, and stood as Group Lead for The Web Standards Project 2006-08. He has had articles published by A List Apart, Adobe, and O’Reilly Media’s XML.com, mostly due to mistaken identity. Drew is a proponent of the lower-case semantic web, and is currently expending energies in the direction of the microformats movement, with particular interests in making parsers an off-the-shelf commodity and developing simple UI conventions. He writes here at all in the head and, with a little help from his friends, at 24 ways.