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Starting Out

leon — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 10:22:05 +0000

This summer marks 4 years since I graduated form Birmingham City University with a bachelors degree in MultiMedia Technology. Since then, I’ve worked for a number of companies including the University that I graduated from. In that time I have (…)

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Testing a custom URL shortener

leon — Sat, 01 May 2010 23:48:32 +0000

Testing a custom url shortener

jQuery ajax loading widget

leon — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:34:37 +0000

Even though i’ve been using jQuery to make web apps for quite a while, this simple function passed me by until quite recently. When loading data asynchronously, the end user doesn’t get any feedback that anything is actually happening (unless (…)

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Really simple jQuery alerts

leon — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 10:11:29 +0000

Over the last few month’s I have been using jQuery more and more in my web projects to do everything from style forms to adding interactivty to lists via drag and drop. In this post I will share with you (…)

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Update to Mashup

leon — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 06:28:32 +0000

So it seems my server got overloaded due to the excessive api calls my lastest mashup was making to the last.fm server. This did work fine when I had it running locally, I may post a video of it in (…)

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How I came to love my Apple TV

leon — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 14:04:49 +0000

(with a little help from my iPhone) So I finally gave in and brought an Apple TV last month and managed to get a little discount thanks to the Thanksgiving Sale. It was a long and arduous decision; I read (…)

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Custom ringtones for your iPhone

leon — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:28:36 +0000

Just a quick post to show you a web service that allows you to create and download ringtones for your iPhone. Simply head to http://audiko.net and follow the instructions. Here is one I made earlier: http://audiko.net/ringtone/Roots+Manuva/886290/Buff+Nuff+%28Prod.+By+Toddla+T%29/en.html?fresh

Flash, XML and foreign characters

leon — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:52:49 +0000

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 (…)

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GoogleMaps/Locator Panel Error

leon — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:32:26 +0000

I have just spotted an error with the location abilities of the two apps I have made that use the GMap component that causes the Flash to crash. As soon as I can I will investigate these errors. Sorry for (…)

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I’m in Web Designer Mag

leon — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:40:26 +0000

The latest issue of Web Designer Mag recently landed on my door mat and I was pleasantly surprised to see some of my work included in the mag and on their promotional disc. I was contacted by the editor a (…)

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