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Idea showers
June 17, 2008 – 8:24 am
Thankfully Dave doesn’t use any of the office-speak phrases on this list compiled by the BBC.
My personal favorite being:
2. “My employers (top half of FTSE 100) recently informed staff that we are no longer allowed to use the phrase brain storm because it might have negative connotations associated with fits. We must now take idea [...]
A reader writes…
May 30, 2008 – 12:54 pm
The BBC has an area on their website called “Have your say” where they let anyone with access to the internet comment on the topics of the day or BBC programmes.
Every now and again some who has borrowed half a brain finds the internet and “Has their say”.
An enterprising chap has a website called spEak [...]
PHP debugging with FireBug
May 29, 2008 – 2:15 pm
We like Firebug the javascript/dom debugger for Firefox.
Now we can debug our PHP applications using Firebug thanks to the FirePHP library.
IE Development gets easier
May 29, 2008 – 1:17 pm
Developing websites for Internet Explorer is not a fun task. Especially having to support the multitudes of different versions. Internally we use Multiple IE which tries to install IE 6 and older versions alongside the standard IE7 installation. It is a bit hit and miss and not very stable. My installation for example doesn’t let [...]
CDN for Javascript libraries..yes please
May 27, 2008 – 5:20 pm
Google is great, it’s a fact.
Today they have launched an Ajax Library API. They are hosting the major Javascript Libraries (Jquery, dojo etc), and are providing a nice API to load them in, pick your version number etc.
They also serve it over a content delivery network, which means when a user requests the library file [...]
Friday fun
May 23, 2008 – 3:28 pm
Who needs a wii?*
All you need is a browser and some javascript to play mario cart.
*(Toilet is at the end of the corridor)
The Monkey is back…
May 20, 2008 – 8:16 am
Back in the day when the internet was full of geeks and Americans you could learn how to design “phat” websites using frames and tables, make animated gifs that inform your users that your site is under construction and even load in music to entertain your website visitors from a web site called Webmonkey.com.
It got [...]