Just a quick blog post to promote HydraHack, organised by Tom Martin (also of @383project fame). HydraHack is a monthly meetup for web developers in Birmingham, who enjoy getting together and making things. If you’re Birmingham based, you should pop along, and if nothing else say hi!
If you already follow me on Twitter you will already know that I am now the proud father of Apple’s latest device. Like most of the purchases I make from Apple, this was one of want rather than need. However saying that, this is worth all of the four hundred and twenty nine pounds that [...]
The Scenario You are creating a Flash project that feeds text in from an external XML file. The text is currently in English but there is a requirement that the text be changed to other languages. The Problem You have added foreign characters such as é, ü or ß and they don’t show up in [...]
This post is a collection of sites and tools that I find useful when designing sites and interfaces. Coda – Probably the best code editor. Mac only i’m affraid. Coda Clips – An online repository of code snippets that can be imported into Coda and used from the clips panel. If you don’t have Coda [...]
I’ve not written a full post on here for a while – party due to the fact that I have been on holiday and have moved house (still waiting for my internet equipment – come on BT!!). There are a few Flash tutorials/apps that I will be adding over the next few weeks, such as [...]
The early part of the 21st century brought many new buzzwords and phrases. IT professionals are no longer known simply as the ‘computer guy’ but instead have names such as Software Architect and eLearning Developer. Gone were the days of sticking an ‘e’ on the front of everything to make it sound futuristic. Even sticking [...]
The Locator Panel has now been updated to v1.2. The update improves the functionality of the Map, in terms of being controlled by the keyboard and mouse. It also improves feedback when a connection is lost or cannot be found. You can download the panel from here.
I’ve found a new plugin that enables you to view the SizzlaBlog in a format optimized for your iPhone or iTouch. Simply head to the same address (www.blog.sizzla-media.co.uk) to view it. If you would like the theme yourself check out the page over at ContentRobot. There are a few things I need to tweak but [...]
Now this may seem common sense to a lot of you but when restoring/updating/jailbreaking your iPhone, don’t be as stupid as me and pull out the cable. Stupid thing to do, but I mistook it for my Mighty Mouse cable (they look identical). The phone went dead and all I could get out of it [...]