Playing with the Lumix LX3

June 30th, 2010

On June 10th I married the love of my life, and as a truly superb wedding present, she bought me a shiny new Lumix LX3 digital camera which I’ve been getting to grips with over the past few weeks. The last digital camera I owned was a Canon Ixus 40 which was a nifty little [...]

Project52 fail

March 3rd, 2010

So at the start of the year I pledged my allegiance to the #p52 movement and aimed to write 1 new blog post per week for a year. I failed. So this is where I recant multiple excuses to explain my failure. While I got off to a good start with some posts that generated [...]

An analogy for progressive enhancement

February 15th, 2010

As a designer I often have to explain the concept of progressive enhancement and graceful degradation to clients to try and explain why their site doesn’t look the same in every browser. Selling concepts I endured a misspent youth in retail sales and one of the things I’m good at is finding the best way [...]

Quotes from Richard Branson

February 1st, 2010

I’m currently reading through Sir. Richard Branson’s book “Business Stripped Bare” and there’s a couple of quotes which have stuck in my head and become mantras which I thought were quite relevant to anyone who deals with clients, customers, builds a product or delivers a service. “Don’t promise what you can’t deliver,and deliver everything you [...]

You’re missing the iPoint

January 28th, 2010

I did try and avoid wading into the torrent of iPad love/hate streaming through Twitter but it seems that a lot of people just dont ‘get’ the device and where it sits in the market so I thought I’d dust off my soap-box and add try shout over the noise to anyone who might listen. [...]

Using PHP’s alternate syntaxes

January 25th, 2010

If you’ve ever worked with PHP you’ll be more than familiar with the use of if/elseif/else conditional statements, these statements often become large and unweildy, especially when HTML is mixed in with PHP, causing a problems with code readability. There are a couple of alternate ways to write these statements which can improve your code. [...]