Saturday 5th July 2008
Following the criticism and perceived failure of Windows VIsta, the latest operating system from Microsoft, it has made me think about the direction in which Microsoft are going and how they fair against competitors in their markets.
Thursday 19th June 2008
I have been spending some of my time lately working on a application that will be partly used on mobile devices. The intention is to capture a photo and upload it from a mobile device. We are using Flickr to upload and store the photos through their APIs and to also retrieve them for a [...]
Thursday 8th May 2008
A handy application that I have come across recently is IETester. It pretty much says on the tin what it does; it allows you to test your website/web application in various versions of Internet Explorer; 5.5, 6, 7 and 8 beta 1.
Thursday 24th April 2008
I guess this really continues on from my previous blog article about Grid-based layouts. A number of CSS frameworks have emerged over the last few months making it somewhat easier for front-end developers deliver consistent interfaces across web browsers.
A personal favourite of mine is to use the YUI Reset CSS along with the 960 Grid [...]
Thursday 17th April 2008
Yesterday, whilst working on a client’s Wordpress website I took the opportunity to implement a ‘quick search’ search feature. Using the OpenSearch standard, the ‘quick search’ is supported by Internet Explorer 7 and the latest versions of Firefox and the likes of Wikipedia, Google and Amazon already take advantage of the technology.