Posted in Web Development on Jan 27th, 2008
I’ve been reviewing the document at the w3c about the new elements in HTML 5. I won’t repeat what the document covers, so read it for yourself at http://www.w3.org/TR/html5-diff/. This article is aimed at discussing the new elements and attributes used in the new version. Looking at the additions from the perspective of a […]
Posted in Thoughts, Web Development on Oct 12th, 2007
The other week I met up with my old Technical Director whilst I was in London and spent a short while reflecting on how hard it seems to be to find developers, and then further to that how hard it is to find developers suited to agency work.
Now I’m in an agency where I’m the […]
Posted in Web Development on Sep 10th, 2007
I recently interviewed a contract developer for a project we’re short of people on. I was going to be on vacation during the project, so the developer needed to be self-sufficient and able to fully understand the task at hand so I could brief him before I left. I hired a freelancer I thought was […]
Posted in Thoughts, Interactivity, Web Development on Aug 22nd, 2007
Here’s an idea I’ve had and will never do anything about so I thought I’d put it out there and see what people think.
My problem is that on my Facebook (this idea could apply to other sites but in this post I’m just going to use Facebook) I have lots of people listed as friends. […]
Posted in Web Development on Jun 26th, 2007
I’m working on a project at the moment where part of the brief is to allow categories of images to be analysed for the main colours they use so we’ll end up with a colour chart for the category.
I tried to find some code I could adapt for this function, but came up short. So […]
Posted in Web Development on Jun 20th, 2007
I’m not an web-application developer and I certainly don’t have any experience at creating websites where security is mission critical. I work as a web developer in an advertising agency and every now and again need to create websites that have above-normal security for some of our clients. This article describes a method and I […]
Posted in Web Development on Jun 19th, 2007
Recently I joined the StumbleUpon community and I think it’s great. At lunch when I’m at my desk or when my brain feels fried I’ll press the little green and blue button and find a page I’m going to like because of the profile I set up when I registered.
Because I’m a web developer, a […]
Posted in Web Development on Jun 8th, 2007
Yesterday, Ben Cooper, one of the other guys on the digital team here at Host gave a presentation about RSS to the company. My company is in advertising, and despite the people I work with all being very bright it doesn’t mean they’re familiar with any Internet technologies other than email, HTML and Flash.
To be […]
