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 [...]
read moreJanuary 12th, 2010
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 [...]
read moreJanuary 4th, 2010
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 [...]
read moreOctober 26th, 2009
So I was in the City this weekend with my fiancée Natalie and we popped into La Senza to pick up an early Christmas present for Nat’s sister. While we were at the checkout I noticed that the cashiers were using a very effective technique for encouraging impulse purchases. La Senza offer a complimentary gift [...]
read moreOctober 15th, 2009
I’ve been slowly rebuilding my Moblog application using the CakePHP framework over the past year when I have the time and motivation. Over the past few evenings I’ve been refining a small element of my Moblog site which has started to dramatically increase user interaction with the site and allow old content to bubble back [...]
read moreOctober 6th, 2009
This years Future of Web Apps conference was an absolute blast, I’m hoping to give a full write up of my experience, but for now, here’s a list of my favourite quotes from the two days. Stop thinking you understand your users. Kevin Rose Don’t build anything you don’t need for launch. Mike McDerment jQuery [...]
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