Flash User Interface Design Jiggery Pokery
Still working on a detailed functional design for a content management scheduling system. Having torn my hair out trying to find some pre-built components to barstardise I resorted to designing it all from scratch. Continue Reading →
Brightcove Fun & Games
Started working to integrate Brightcove video players with a third party ad agency today. Should be done pretty quickly so there will probably be few points of interest for me to bang on about here. Still, this kind of thing is relatively new so any problems I encounter are probably worth documenting. Continue Reading →
Content Management System Cake
In trying to document here all the various technology/craft related nuggets of productivity i have been responsible for over the years I have decided to release the Content Management System cake based on a custom build I was involved with at AOL. Continue Reading →
JavaScript Scheduler with Drag & Drop Functionality
A good usable interface is the holy Grail of all good web applications. Sites like Google and Flickr amongst others have excellently designed sites with good use of the latest JS and AJAX technologies. For mere mortals the only option to achieve similar levels of usability is to use the various JS frameworks and toolkits such as Scriptaculous, MooTools or Dojo. Continue Reading →
Dodgy Belkin USB-Wielding Router
I bought a new ADSL router at the weekend. I am not that impressed, but it will have to do for the moment since there does not seem to be anything better around. Rubbish. Continue Reading →
Brent’s Best Kept Secret
Usually brown signs direct you to areas of natural or historical interest, in the case of the Welsh Harp, this could not be further from the truth. Continue Reading →
Saatchi Middle East Adventure
Visited the Saatchi gallery today to see the new Middle East art exhibition. The quality was high as usual although there was not the ridiculous shock factor of multiple waxwork dead bodies like at the last collection. Continue Reading →
Choosing a decent Amplifer
Bought an amplifier today after much research and investigation and decided to write about the general difficulty of the whole thing. Continue Reading →
Cake Competition Part 1
Last year, Clarkson and I embarked on a cake making competition. Needless to say, she won, but here are our two entries: a cake version of my cardboard car made by Clarkson and the Millennium Dome/Canary Wharf at night made by me.
VMWare & Oracle UCM Image Installation
Today I had the pleasure of getting an 15GB image of RedHat with Oracle UCM installed up and running on one of the development boxes we have in a data centre, deep in the guts of the building. Continue Reading →
Cardboard Woodburner
Its Valentines day, and time for a strange construction for Clarkson. This time I tried to think of the things that are important to her. Continue Reading →
Qlikview Mutterings
I might be doing a course all about Qlikview later this month, so I thought I best do some research into what it is first and share my findings here. Continue Reading →
Mobile iGoogle improved on iPhone, but not perfect
Having removed the iPhone-optimised iGoogle to the distress of all obsessive users, such as myself, Google has redeemed itself by improving the interface it left us with slightly. A screenshot can be seen above… Continue Reading →
Yahoo Analytics Slow to Launch to the Masses?
Last April, Yahoo announced that it had acquired the leading web analytics specialist IndexTools and then in October last year it announced the beta of Yahoo Analytics available only to Yahoo small business customers. Since then things have gone very quiet. The website appears to promise much in the way of features but availability is still limited. Continue Reading →
Cardboard Teacup
It was a complicated project, much like all of these sort of constructions. Continue Reading →
All New Imbimp Redesign
No sooner had this site been built, but along comes a fancy new theme. This was always my intention, but it takes time to rip all the cardboard and photoshop all the remains. Continue Reading →