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 a fair [...]
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 to sell [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
read moreJanuary 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 [...]
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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