Archive for ‘Blog’
Silverstripe 3 – New ORM
People who know me and my clients know I love SilverStripe. Find below the latest from Sam Minnée - CEO SilverStripe. Sam Minnée, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of SilverStripe, has shaped the SilverStripe Suite and is part of its success story as an internationally respected Open Source CMS. One of the parts of SilverStripe 3 that I was most heavily involved with was the development of the new ORM. ORM stands ... Read More
Top 10 Free Online Storage Apps
Article I found on Freelance Switch: Cloud computing oppens new opportunities for freelancers. One of them is free online file synchronization and storage. Nowadays you can sync your PC files and manage your documents on the go. Share files with your employer or other freelancers. Make an online backup or roll back to previous file version. All these actions are possible with modern online file sharing applications. Here are the top ten ... Read More
Freebie: Facebook Fan Page GUI PSD
A wonderful article I found... take a look: Today we are glad to release a yet another freebie: a Facebook Fan Page GUI PSD, designed by Hike and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. The PSD will speed up the process of creating previews, thus sparing you from drawing all the comps and letting you customize all the texts, buttons and data as you need. All layers are vectorized, allowing you to scale ... Read More
The Lost Art Of Design Etiquette
Here is a wonderful article I found on Smashing Magazine. Endless layers in Photoshop. Overstuffed image folders. That jQuery plug-in that has 12 files associated with it. Hundreds or thousands of individual pieces go into making a website. No wonder we go off the deep end when we can’t find a closing div — er, section tag. We work with a ridiculously large number of things, and how we organize them (or choose ... Read More
Sync Facebook Events and Birthdays to iPhone Calendar (for FREE!)
Between my work life, home life, social life and band... I now look after close to 15 email accounts and I think it's 5 calendars. When ever I get asked "can you make that date" it takes me some time to find out the answer to that simple question... The answer (I think), is that I live on my iPhone (much the the dismay of my wife) and with this in ... Read More
Better Facebook Fan Pages
An interesting read I stumbled upon about the trick to designing better facebook pages. Facebook has changed all of our lives. Whether you’ve ever had an account or even visited the website, it’s difficult to ignore the hundreds of Facebook’s “Like” and “Share” badges seen all around the modern web. The blogosphere is constantly buzzing with comments and shares over Facebook. Knowing the popularity of Facebook, it’s commonplace to create a fan ... Read More
PEW PEW Guitars!
I am a geek for gadgets, so here is one that really got my attention! What could be more dangerous than a rockstar with a guitar? How about a rock star with a guitar with freakin' lasers attached to it! Okay maybe these lasers don't exactly burn through things, but the Laser Pitch Detection Pickup system utilizes lasers mounted on the guitar in order to detect the pitch of a string ... Read More
Why I use HostPapa
As any designer or even website owner will tell you, your website is nothing without a good hosting company behind it. Through out my years on the web, I have tried a number of different hosting companies but for the most of it, I ran into the same variety of problems every time: Prices were too high, Missing features within hosting environment / lack of flexibility, inadequate technical support (or lack ... Read More
Ramble (of sorts)
So I'm sat here on the train, I have limited 3G signal and nearly all the apps I use, use it! What else is there to do? Blog... I've reached a decision that I feel is worth noting and it's this: I don't try hard enough! As of Right now, I am making a new mid years resolution... Must try harder! I have an invisible list of goals I am wrote, ... Read More
