Thursday 30th August 2007
There was an interesting news article on BBC Breakfast News and their website today. It opened the debate as to whether or not employers should allow their staff to access social networking sites such as Facebook whilst at work. I understand the topic was raised following Kent County Council banning all 32,000 of its staff [...]
Wednesday 29th August 2007
Today I built my first mobile web app. In fact I can’t take full credit for it as Dave coded the core functionality and I scripted the interface. It’s only something small; a simple two page web app that let’s you upload files and browse through and view the uploaded files.
Saturday 18th August 2007
After Jonny mentioned Virb being the next Myspace in response to one of my earlier articles I decided to take a more in-depth look at the social networking site.
At first my experience with Virb was short-lived. I signed up to Facebook around roughly the same time and I was frustrated by the fact I couldn’t [...]
Sunday 12th August 2007
I came across an interesting article today. It suggests that instead of embracing the sloppy way that IE6 handles CSS we shouldn’t provide fixes and let the end-user see the website in it’s ugly state. No hacks, no fixes, no more. They would either have to update their browser to the latest version or install [...]
Thursday 9th August 2007
Six months ago I purchased a 5th gen iPod after noticing a mis-printed price in one of the large supermarket’s monthly magazine. Although I had coveted iPods for sometime I could never see the need for one when my minidisc player worked fine; however at such a price reduction I jumped at the chance.