Recent articles & quickbits

Posted:Aug 12

Novl Cuisine

Over at Novl Cuisine a couple of friends of mine are trying complete the ridiculous task of designing a poster, every day, for a year.

To give them a helping hand, every now and then they ask someone t step in as a guest poster and I was thrilled to be one of them.

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Posted:Jun 30

Adblock Plus warning

This was quite frustrating, until we figured it out.

Whilst developing a site, I noticed that the main column on the index page had suddenly disappeared. It was working fine earlier and I couldn’t figure out what had happened.

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Posted:Jun 24

OpenGoo

OpenGoo is an Open Source Web Office.

Web office

It is a complete solution for every organisation to create, collaborate, share and publish all its internal and external documents.

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Posted:Jun 16

HTML5

Is it just me, or does anybody else think HTML5 is going to be rubbish?

I understand it’s still in draft form and from what I last read if it carries on at the rate of progressions it’s currently at, we’ll have a recommendation by 2022. By which point we’ll be needing HTML6 or whatever’s next.

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Posted:Jun 02

B.R.A.T. (Big Red Angry Text)

Let me explain, this isn’t something I created, just merely something I came across, that I think is really good and thought everyone should have the opportunity to know about it.

B.R.A.T. is a concept created by Marco Battilana at Accessites.org.

It’s brilliantly simple.

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Posted:May 29

The real world

Watch the video to see that in the real world, this just doesn’t happen. It would never work. So why do clients always try it in our industry.

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Posted:May 21

Receiving your MT mail on GMail

Up until yesterday I’d been receiving my email using RoundCube or AtMail. Both are hosted on the MediaTemple servers, and are included in the Grid Server package.

I’ve never been quite happy with either of them, flicking between the two over the last year. So after RoundCube totally bringing down the JavaScript engine in Safari yesterday, I’ve decided to give Google Mail a go.

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Posted:May 14

Moving back to MT

Why did I move back?

It was an easy decision.

I only decided to leave MediaTemple after all of the horror stories of sites being down for days at a time. I however have never suffered from this. Apparently it’s because Cluster 2 on MT’s Grid Server is currently split into two different environments.

The one I’m on is the newer one, the one that’s more stable. More information can be found on MT’s blog.

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I am a graphic designer, web developer, musician and Apple enthusiast living near Sheffield, South Yorkshire (UK).

I specialise in creative, simply usable and attactive web interfaces.

The opinions expressed on this site are not necessarily shared by my employer.

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