Snapstagram

By On April 17, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Hearing the news of Facebooks acquisition of Instagram for a mind boggling $1 billon left many passionate Instagrammers questioning the future intentions of the owners, and their decision to sell out. The following came to me as a refreshing discovery.

Being a bit of a

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The Mindful Designer

By On April 7, 2012 · Leave a Comment

A very inspiring talk by Robbie Manson at New Adventures of Web Design earlier this year.

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Great Web Design

By On April 7, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Some nice words by Daniel Ryan via the Pastry Box Project

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Issues with LESS when using locally with Chrome

By On March 28, 2012 · Leave a Comment

After setting up a local version of the less framework I found that for one reason or another, it didn’t want to work when using locally with Google Chrome. Thinking this may be a Webkit issue I thought I would would give it a try anyway, but it seems to [...]

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Lists. A more productive way of using Twitter.

By On February 29, 2012 · Leave a Comment

I was following way too many people, which included a mixture of industry + personal tweeters. So I decided something had to give. Ciphering through so many tweets in your timeline everyday, about various topics is just not much fun. I’ve toyed with the idea of setting up another account. One for Business and one [...]

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Craftsmanship

By On February 7, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Essential reading for anyone involved in building websites. Craftsmanship by Dave Gamanche.

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So this is the New Year…

By On January 6, 2012 · Leave a Comment

So 2011 is well and truly over and 2012 is here. It’s usually around this time of the year that we are thinking about what we have or haven’t achieved this year and what we plan to do for the next. I have been doing a fair bit of thinking myself and decided to put [...]

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Portfolio Redesign/Rebuild. Ch.1 – Initial Ideas

By On July 6, 2011 · Leave a Comment

This is the first in a series of posts relating to the new portfolio/blog that I am going to design and build.

I’ve have been toying with the idea of designing and building a new portfolio for some time now. I feel my approach and direction within the industry has changed a little over the [...]

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Web Directions @Media

Web Directions @Media

By On June 20, 2011 · Leave a Comment

A little late then originally intended, but as they say “better late then never!”…Anyways, A few weeks ago I attended the Web Directions @ Media conference on the 26th and 27th May.

You were given the choice of either the design or development track. Being a Front End Developer, [...]

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Ninja Battles

By On May 5, 2011 · Leave a Comment

 

On the 11th March I attended the Geek Ninja Battle – Mobile Web vs Native event at the Lighthouse Arts in Brighton, organised by Aral Balkan.
This is the first web event that I have attended, and must say that I really enjoyed it. Aral clearly clearly has alot of [...]

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