Adobe has finally realized what many pundits have for years and have ceased development of mobile Flash. Now I’m no Steve Job, just a voice in the wilderness, but I’ve been arguing for years that Flash has it’s place on the web and it should stick to it. Of course I was always shouted down [...]
Category Archives: Web Development
The aviary door has been left open – let your creative spirit fly free
21/2/10 – 12:57
Aviary’s entire suite of media editing tools is now available for free. I’ve watched the progress of this, very ambitious, project for some time now and jumped out of my seat when I heard this news. Online media editing tools, some hands-down better then those offered by the big boys (Adobe), all for free: Phoenix [...]
Install subversion on OS X Leopard as a revision control server for a Website
29/5/09 – 04:29
When we start to get a reasonable size team together working on a large web project we can run into problems like; one team member has the latest copy of the production code on their computer and they’ve gone on leave for a week or they, with the best of intentions, clean up the test [...]
Installing FirePHP on OS X – Leopard from PEAR
20/5/09 – 00:39
Quick tip for installing FirePHP from PEAR if you installed PEAR in ‘/usr/local’ as per the instructions in my previous post. Make sure you install as superuser: $ sudo pear channel-discover pear.firephp.org $ sudo pear install firephp/FirePHPCore
Installing PEAR on OS X – Leopard
20/5/09 – 00:21
A quick set of instructions for installing PEAR on OS X 10.5 (Leopard): PHP’s PEAR repository does not come with Leopard but it only takes about five minutes, if that, to install.
Naughty Google, Bad UI
26/2/09 – 11:59
This evening (OK – last day and a half) I’ve been tying to set up Google Sync with my iPod Touch only I have the added fun of a Google Apps account. I stared blankly at these instructions for ages <Sync: Choose Which Calendars to Sync> and this site <http://m.google.com> (see picture – FYI can [...]
VisiBone Country Chart: Do you know where .no is?
20/8/08 – 23:22
Those clever VisiBone people; the ones that create the lovely web colour charts etc. have come out with a beautiful map of the world that includes two letter internet country codes along with lots of other interesting details. The larger of the maps available is 122 x 61 cm (48 x 24 inch). So if [...]
Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 beta Released
29/5/08 – 20:22
Adobe have released their latest incarnation of Dreamwever as a public beta. I’m looking forward to playing with the CS4 incarnation of the web’s premier WYSIWYG development tool. Adobe, Developer Connection, Logged In
No Need to Get Cut-Up About it (Google Maps)
13/6/07 – 23:14
Google Maps is great and for a long time now I have wanted to be able to leverage the Google map technology for my own evil porpoises (Phocoena scelus). Well now I can and so can anybody thanks to the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis. They have produced a nice program called the Google [...]
Photosynth – Mind Blowing and Microsoft Not Often in the Same Sentence
14/11/06 – 21:59
Photosynth is apparently a hot topic for the attendees at O’Reilly Web 2.0 Summit (see Robert Scoble’s post on Pod Tech Network). I don’t normally put “Mind Blowing” and Microsoft in the same context but in this case having played with the tech demo I feel I must. The software takes a large collection of [...]