For a nice warm up to Daves 80s style 30th Birthday party at the weekend how about listening to “Telly Savalas and the Quota Quickies” on Radio 4 at 10:30am. (April 26th).
The bizarre story of how three British cities in the late 1970s tried to make themselves appear exciting to a cinema audience, recruiting Kojak [...]
Author Archives: John
That’s my kind of town….
April 24, 2008 – 9:15 am
Finding propel objects
April 15, 2008 – 9:42 am
In the White October office we use a programing framework called Symfony for some of our projects. It provides us with well erm a framework to develop our web applications, it gives us a standard way of dealing with web requests, keeping our code in a standard set of folders and lots of handy tools [...]
CSS Float error detection
March 31, 2008 – 11:55 am
I’ve just read on Ajaxian about a jQuery snippet of code that checks a page you are working on has any CSS float errors. It highlights the elements that should have been cleared by putting an orange dotted browser around them.
I’m sure this will come in handy as its one of the major issues when [...]
New design for the BBC
March 31, 2008 – 8:43 am
Update: They have now fixed the CSS typo.
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The BBC have launched a new design for the News and Sport home pages.
They have finally centred the design which means I can’t use the BBC as an example of a left aligned design any more when clients say that all websites are centred. Which is a shame [...]
Zemanta another look
March 27, 2008 – 4:27 pm
I like to prove or disprove a point and Dans comment in my original post about Zemanta has prompted me to use Zemanta in writing a proper blog post.
I should have pointed out originally that Zemanta is in early Alpha release stage so its no where near polished, but the idea I think is great [...]
Suggestive Blogging by Zemata
March 27, 2008 – 12:30 pm
Source: WikipediaZemanta has launched it’s contextual content suggest tool for blogging platforms like Wordpress (which is what we use), blogger, and Typepad. (Note the Oxford comma…I’ve been reading Morse.)
It reads what you are typing and looks for relevant images from flickr and stock photograph libraries and relevant articles. It will also look at what you [...]
Dear Idiot Boy,
March 14, 2008 – 8:06 am
Do you think even I would use Javascript to secure content?! Idiot boy.
It was simple to secure and NO ONE will ever know how I have done it.
MWHAHAHA
Auntie.
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Erm well I’m a bit stunned. I thought it would be something at least “clever” with cookies and javascript that was “the fix” that “secured” the iPhone version [...]