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Archive for January, 2010

You’re missing the iPoint

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.

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Using PHP’s alternate syntaxes

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

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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Nurturing my pet projects

I’ve been dabbling in web design and development for 10 years now, and for as long as I can remember I’ve had one or more pet projects on the go. At the start of the year I decided that I’d like to devote some more of my personal time to these pet projects, whether that [...]

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CSS coding standards

Well, it’s now 2010 and as usual, January brings with it many self-made promises and resolutions, one of mine is to write more, even if it’s just quick tips & tricks rather than lengthy diatribes which I always want to write, but never seem to find the time.
During the back end of last year I [...]

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