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My evolution from web developer to something more complicated. Sharing news, reviews and opinions on web-related subjects. Sharing tips learned from current projects and experimental work.
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WWW and User Experience
Which do you prefer? www.somedomain.com or simply somedomain.com ? The use of the WWW (or variously: wuh wuh wuh, dub dub dub, dubya dubya dubya etc.) in domain names is something of a debatable subject. A colleague recently stated that people feel m...
Web agencies and their clients are getting it all wrong
It’s a bit of a confrontational title, but this is a bit of a confrontational post. The disparity between what a client should get from their web agency and what they do get is all too often down to the established process of client brief / age...
My 4 most wanted iPhone features
Don’t get me wrong, I love my iPhone and wouldn’t be without it but it’s frustrating sometimes to know that despite it’s myriad capabilities, there’s still more it could do. The fact that people are already managing to d...
Tagged by Fabretti
Paul Fabretti chose to tag me in one of these tag-the-blogger excercises so in the interests of not letting anybody down, I’ll continue the chain. If you are tagged you should: (a) republish these rules Link to your original tagger(s) and lis...
A new idea to hasten the demise of IE6
Last year I was discussing the idea that as web designers and developers are the poeple who suffer most from IE6’s continued usage, we are responsible for doing what we can to educate users into upgrading. 37 Signals also announced that they wo...
Social Notworking?
The phrase “social notworking” I heard from Justin Davies, however, the question posed by my employer is: “Where is the value in staff twittering in company time?” I would argue that if your work involves social media, espec...
A chat about Basecamp
I had an interesting IM chat with my friend Jon Ward, a project manager with whom I recently worked. We were discussing the calendar functionality in Backpack and Jon brought up one of his pet bugbears - the lack of time-spanned events in Basecamp. J...
MehWorld Expo
I just don’t get all of the excitement over the MacWorld Expo Keynote, OK, so Apple does produce some great products but the fanboy hype around the event seems a little too much. Probably the most exciting thing was the speculation about Steve ...
What I learned from writing the “Web Advent” Series
When I set myself the challenge of posting every day for 24 days, it was a spur-of-the-moment idea without any real consideration of what was involved. Having successfully completed the entire run of 24 posts containing 300 web resources of one kind ...
Why doesn’t Google analytics have an API?
I really want an API for Google analytics, I have some specific ideas for combining analytics data with other data available via external APIs but for some reason Google are jittery about people publishing the data collected about their site traffic...
The 5 Golden Rules of Social Media Etiquette
Be excessively rude - who’s going to stop you? Swear and curse profusely - some people may take offence but hey, that’s their problem. Publish links to your own website with every update - so what if people call that spamming, you just w...
