highrollerhair.com – online
See a pattern emerging here? Here’s a site that went online recently, we’re pretty excited to see where this all goes, and the lady behind it I think has a great concept going here. This will be an ongoing project, expanding the site into it’s planned state, and lets see what happens after that.. good luck to Emma, check out the site and get in touch with her! www.highrollerhair.com
read full post →go mailchimp go
just a little plug to the people at mailchimp, their resources and service are top notch, so go ahead and use their freebies, there’s a lot to learn for all of us.
read full post →why I paid for a blog template
I think for most people who build websites, the idea of paying someone else to work on your own is a painful thought, and of course that’s not what I did, but there’s no need to start from scratch..
read full post →taking inspiration #1
There’s a few sites I go to for style and other web inspiration, usually www.panic.com‘s clean look is a good place to start, it fits with the way I like things, and they’ve got some very clever whizzy things going on that I’m always happy to see. Similarly Apple is often a place to go [...]
read full post →infinite scroll or no?
seems like this is not very popular if the comments are anything to go by, but I must say that I do like blogs that do that. I’ll try one of these days, hell it’s the internet, can’t you just have 2 versions of everything and let your users decide?!
read full post →Secure passwords
Avoid thinking up passwords yourself all the time, let the computer make you more secure!
read full post →Tumblr

Working with grace
Is tumblr the new twitter?
These feeds are so easy to embed, why use wordpress?!

I don’t wanna replace my mouse.. But the double click seems broken..
Note to self..
Make an effort to attend as many open source software, web dev, Facebook dev, any dev and design events and conferences, inevitably meet nice and interesting people, sometimes useful people.. After 8 years it’s still important to network, maybe more so now..

We’re at the diner, retro milk!
iphone data open
so sounds like there’s something going on with logging wifi and gps data on iphones and ipads, of course there’s going to be the usual uproar, but you know maybe it’s kinda cool. What could you do with all that location data?
Well .. a couple of fun ideas, how about a real life stumbleupon where you get suggested streets you’ve never been to, or even what’s there that’s similar to places you have been. I guess thats possible without the live GPS tracking, but who really checks in everywhere they go?
I think I foursquare only at restaurants and cafe’s, and the odd techy event because the foursquare iphone app is easier to slap a picture and caption on than a blog or facebook.. that is of course until tumblr came into my life…

So I’m waiting for the wife to come along and go to the gym in town, it’s 10.30pm, there’s a 24hr fitness first right here. Just having a mint tea to kill some time
The Facebook developer garage was interesting tonight, talks on gamification and scaling popular sites by Pop cap and playfish. Very interesting, turning the world into a game and why it needs more consideration than action.
Links and notes to come
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