Monday, July 7th, 2008
If you follow CSS3.Info then you’ll notice my post last week regarding the UI that Facebook have come up with specifically for iPhone. You’ll also notice that some managed to misinterpreted the information I was trying to put across (your apology was welcomed, but in case any of you are still unclear as to the meaning behind my post, please read my subsequent comment).
Thursday, June 12th, 2008
So, I’ve come back from a five week break in which I’ve managed to do almost all of the things that I wanted to do in that time; I got myself into shape again (kind of) by going out on my bike every day, went to a few Unis (DMU Leicester, Kent, Bristol & Manchester) to visit a few mates, finished watching all seven series of The Sopranos and played a fair amount of GTA IV.
Also during my time off I was approached by an old acqaintance from Teachers TV, who has persuaded me to take up a position as Senior ID on a fairly large-scale project in Reading; unfortunately, I can’t really say anymore than that at the moment!
Monday, April 21st, 2008
I’ve recently decided to take a break from web development probably for a couple of months. One of the reasons for this is that I’m starting to feel very burnt-out (I haven’t had a break for more than a month in three years), and the time has come to get a change of scenery for my own sanity!
My tasks for my time off are as follows:-
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Whilst carrying out some further QA, I’ve noticed at least one regression bug that has creeped in and in the process of notifying the guys at IE
I promised to bump this post, didn’t I? As I simply don’t have the scope to focus on IE8’s (many) bugs, I though I’d let these guys do it:-
Friday, March 21st, 2008
Yes, today is a first for my blog - two posts in one day!
I was checking out Anne’s blog earlier and came across this link (PDF doc), which looks as though it’s an internal email from Bill Gates himself, talking (pretty franky, I may add) about the need for Office formats to rely on the proprietary capabilities of IE.
The PDF in question resides in a directory at egde-op.org - there’s lots of other emails in that directory, if you fancy a browse. I’m guessing (only from the directory name, and Plaintiff’s Exhibit stamp) that this is some public evidence relating to the Iowa Consumer Case vs Microsoft.
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Peter pointed out in an article on CSS3.Info that Safari 3.1 had been released both as a standalone install or automatic software update for OSX [curses software update check been set to weekly rather than daily]; for this reason, until I read his article I had no idea they’d released it so early.
It’s a nice surprise to see what CSS/SVG support they’ve implemented:-
Saturday, March 15th, 2008
This will be my first trip to a conference this year and there looks to be some good speakers which I look forward to hearing from- it’s also just round the corner from where I’m working at the moment, which is ideal!
If you’re planning to come along, holla back and we’ll have to try and meet up at the event.
On a separate note, I’d be interested to hear your feedback on what you think of the social bookmark plugin I added a few days ago - what does everyone think? Is it a bit too much? Get in contact…
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
I’ve finally succumbed to the wonders of CMS’s for blogging, and now I have made the switch, I don’t know why I didn’t sooner! Wordpress is a breeze to mod on a theming level - all in all, it took me around 10 hours to theme it into what it looks like now from it’s standard off-the-shelf theme.
In terms of CMSs I’ve a good deal of experience dealing with Drupal theming; granted, Drupal is a far more complex CMS distribution and leaves Wordpress (more of a blog anyway) in the dark when it comes to expansion capabilities. But seriously, Wordpress is sooo easy to theme.