I’m putting up my notes from the talks I saw at Techshare 2009, and Richard Schwerdtfeger‘s was the first.

Ok, I don’t know much about the music industry, but there is such as huge disparity between what the record labels say and just about everyone else, it’s difficult not to comment. I think that’s probably because their business is over, and here’s what might replace them.

Mike Paciello recently pointed to an article that says Section 508 inefficient for CMS and web development tools. This matches what I would expect, however, I discovered the article has it the opposite way round.

Thank you to all those people who attended the session today in Tallinn, and I look forward to meeting people from Vilnius and Riga! Thanks also go to the guys at Best Marketing, who have made me very welcome. I promised lots of links to go with the presentation, so here they are…

I came across a strange error using Django when putting something live that I couldn’t find via google, so hopefully this will help anyone in the same position.  When I put some new code live (to allow members to enter events), it errored with:…

‘str’ object has no attribute ‘_default_manager’

A couple of days ago I had the pleasure of speaking at the first seminiar on usability in Bulgaria. A great thanks to the people at .net and Lucrat in Bulgaria, it was a great event with great hosts. It was also great to see & meet Peter Merholz, having …

John Gruber recently expounded on the problems with click through, which put simply: is when you click a control on a window / application that’s in the background, it works. This is something that ‘got me’ when I started using Macs (that generally don’t allow click through), as it …

You may have noticed the W3C was asking for contributions for the running the validator. There is a way that you can support the W3c validation service – by not using it. The public version that is. If you use OSX, you can install it locally.

Facebook appears to be testing (with a far greater audience than I could), the current state of web conventions. A few years ago, few regular people knew that the logo on a website would link back to the homepage. Anecdotally, I have noticed more people using logos for that purpose in usability testing, but it’s very difficult to know what proportion of the general population that is.

I’ve seen a few articles recently about Google’s Chrome browser market share, some sites seem to have had quite a lot of visits from people using Chrome, which then fell off again. However, these sort of stats are probably missing the point, what sites is it that people are most likely to use Chrome on?