Recently we realised that we were in need of a modal form/dialog. Sure there is a javascript “dialog” function however it is completely useless in IE7 and what’s more it’s not really ideal in other browsers. Most of our work is based on Prototype/Scriptaculous and we have used Control.Modal in other projects so I went […]
Currently I’m working on an abstraction layer for the Google Maps API, this is purely written in Javascript, allowing any language to produce JSON objects and pass them quite seemlessly onto a Google Map. Originally this was planned to be able to be used across maps APIs (Virtual Earth, Yahoo Maps) but has descended into […]
One of my new favourite bloggers, the Graveyard Barista has hurt his shoulder working, I’ve only been working in a bar for about a month now but I know how much it sucks to hurt something so integral to your job. For me, it’s cutting your fingers, you have your fingers near alcohol and limes […]
This is a bit of a brain dump about something that’s been bugging me for weeks, it doesn’t have a great deal of coherence to the idea yet.
I’ve been working for the last few months on the excellent Silverstripe CMS and the framework Xebidy has developed on top of it called Bootstrap. We are releasing […]
My Goodness! In the course of my work I came across this cool picture of a Guinness. How cool is Flickr?
Today I woke up at 8:45 in the morning, and due to the fact that I’ve been asked to get in to work earlier (read: before 9) I rushed out of bed, jumped on my bike and got to work as fast as I possibly could. Turns out, when I was setting my alarm clock […]
A really well written piece on why we need to make the hard decisions now, rather than letting them become emergencies.
Hurry! Do the Important Stuff
One thing the big corporate companies have right is tech support and it really helps how I feel about the company. At work we have a couple of support agreements and it saves time and money if you can call them and speak to a tech within 5 minutes.
Microsoft and Symantec have perfected it, and […]