Finally! After months of messing with designs and build I’ve settled on a new site design, built it and made it live. I am relieved that it’s finally done. What you’re looking at is the sixth design and build of this version of the site, which is the fourth version since it’s creation around two years ago. Time flies.
This post may technically constitute a rant. No names are mentioned.
Today I purchased Steve Job’s rather meaty biography for some reading material whilst I travel back on forth to work on The Tube and, as I often do, I posted this to Twitter and what I got in response was a few asinine comments slating either Steve Jobs or Apple and it’s products in general. My question is why? Continue reading >>
The Bank of England announced today that it is going to inject £75,000,000,000 (£75 billion) into the UK economy through “Quantitive Easing” which as near as I can tell basically means giving banks more money so they can pay their top execs bigger bonuses. Continue reading >>
I was gutted to hear the news that Steve Jobs died today. He has massively influenced my work, my career and my life, like he has done with most people in my line of work.
I wanted to share a fond memory of mine, which can be directly attributed to Steve Jobs. Just a few weeks ago my family visited and I gave my Grandfather (AKA Baggy) my iPad to have a look at. Baggy is a complete technophobe, if I asked him to send a text he probably wouldn’t know that he’d do that on his mobile phone and yet he could use the iPad right away. Within a matter of minutes he was watching videos of cats doing stupid things on YouTube, flicking pages around, navigating through the related videos and finding old TV recordings of country songs he used to listen to as a young man. Steve Jobs not only bought technology forward in leaps and bounds but he made it accessible to everyone. It’s a tragedy that he was taken away so young.
I had hoped to one day watch Steve Jobs give another Apple keynote with my geeky unborn child, obviously that will now not happen but I will teach him or her about Steve and how much he has contributed to everyday life. Just imagine where we’d be if he had never come around.
The recent riots in Tottenham and the rest of London got me thinking – were they just the work of yobs out to cause some mayhem and get some free stuff or was there an undertone to them: people’s disaffection and alienation from the current government and it’s enforcers? Continue reading >>
Disclaimer: This post is not intended to be serious. If you thought it was then please do us all a favour and go away. Continue reading >>
I couldn’t resist sticking in a pun that makes absolutely no sense but anyway, I have news: early next month I shall be starting my new job as Frontend Web Developer for Bite Communications over in Hammersmith, London.
I’ve been working for Causeway for 9 months now, give or take, and although it’s been short it’s also been awesome working with Ed, Jutta and Darrell. Much time shall be spent down the pub with them in the future.
I’m looking forward to starting at Bite, working with their team and their clients; it’s gonna be great fun!
I’ve just finished moving my entire site to WordPress (it was a collection of flat PHP files with WordPress running the Blog and nothing else).
I’ve always found that WordPress runs slow compared to other CMSs and, given the huge image files being used as the background images of my pages I don’t want to increase load times anymore so i’ve spent a fair bit of time optimising my WordPress install to make it as fast as possible. Continue reading >>
Blimey, 2 posts in as many days!
First a disclaimer: this post concentrates on iPhones as I do not have an Android, WP7 or Blackberry to test with however I’d imagine that the code is applicable regardless. Continue reading >>
I think there’s a quick win (I say quick win, I actually have no idea it would take to implement) for Google Maps that would make the user experience a wee bit better. Continue reading >>
