Paul Stanton: Designer, developer, researcher, coffee addict, poker player, black belt and connoisseur of all things web.

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 promise.”Richard [...]

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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.

First, [...]

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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.
if..endif [...]

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Redesigning Coffeepowered

January 18th, 2010

Regular readers may have noticed that things look a little different around here! I achieved one of my pet project goals for 2010 by redesigning coffeepowered from the ground up. I thought I’d write a little about the design process I went through and how the design evolved from the wildly different vision I had [...]

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