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*note that this is a first draft of this and most of the links have been omitted. check back in a day to get the updates with links to all resouces* Well it’s the end of a very long day in Brighton and I’ve managed to yet again find myself with a pint of Landlords… Continue reading Mojo Dojo – a one day iOS development course

Today is a good day. Looking out the window of my train to Brighton I can see the sun is just peaking through the clouds as we pass the Battersea Power Station on my way to an iOS course run by Aral Baker. A few minutes earlier I was sat at Caffe Ritazza at the… Continue reading Painting the picture of contractors

This article is courtesy of the extremely intelligent Adam Fisher. Thanks Fisher! If anyone wants the home and end keys on the macs to work in a more standard way like windows (put the cursor to the end or beginning of the current line), this quick process will fix them nicely in many programs (including… Continue reading Mac OSX fixing home & end keys

A few friends of mine are opening a set of studios in SE1. I spent the weekend snowboarding with the owners and the guys running the studios and they’re all very sound and talented peoples. About Studio 180 The Studio Studio 180 is a converted Georgian terrace containing five unique artists studios. Ideally situated in… Continue reading Studio 180

I’ve just read Scott Berkuns article about how “All ideas are made of other ideas. It was a short post, however I’d also seen his Keynote presentation on the same topic during the Web Directions Conference in London. It got me thinking, at 8am, and this is what I managed to get out of my… Continue reading Ideas are formed from other ideas

Today we had a client looking to represent some renovation work on a historic piece of pavement dating back to the 10th Century. Before we embarked on sketching out the possible layouts for the time line we discussed the data/information that we needed to display to the user so that we could work out the… Continue reading Creating a timeline on your site

Random http://clientsfromhell.net – please don’t post any thing from our clients here, but it’s nice to have a quick look through and see that people go through the same pain (and often worse) http://stopwilson.com – DOS style blog site. Very cool! http://superuser.com/questions/231273/what-are-the-windows-a-and-b-drives-used-for – Seriously, kids these days have no idea how easy they’ve got it.… Continue reading Nerdy Thursday Links #11

If you’re not already aware, I’m moving this site across from the www version to a html5 non-subdomained version. As part of the move I’m going to update all my video file formats so that it can be enjoyed in all HTML5 wonder. There are hundreds, thousands, of resources on the internet for HTML5 Video… Continue reading HTML5 Video Formats

Today Laura and I are back in Thame for Charlie (her fathers) birthday.

I’ve decided I’m tired of looking at Laura’s laptop with IE and seeing this site render like shit. To overcome this I’ve decided to get Virtual Box running on my Mac with at least IE 7 and IE 8 (which has been later dropped off to just running IE7). Unfortunately there is no ready made… Continue reading IE7 testing on Mac OSX with Virtual Box