I’m participating in a study, something about how the facilities in an area impact on the exercise and travel habits of the people who live there. I’m wearing a pedometer this week, and apparently today while walking to the train … Continue reading
Communication
Last night was Communication, a joint event from AGDA and Port-80. I spoke, along with two of my PerthWeb collegues, Paul and Chris, on how designers and developers can (or can’t) get along and work together. The guys from Papercut … Continue reading
Developer Crumbs
My guy Dave has many side projects. Well, I have many side projects too… I guess we all do. Anyway, Dave’s biggest side project over the last couple of years has been DVD Collector, a freeware program for, funnily enough, … Continue reading
Tables vs CSS
There’s been a lot of discussion and hot air in the blogosphere the last couple of weeks on the issue of table-based layouts vs css layouts. I think Andy Budd started it with his Objective Look at Table Based vs … Continue reading
Full Scale and the Pink Handbag
Went to see Full Scale last night, one of my favourite bands. Their drummer Crutey used to work for PerthWeb, a million years ago. The sound in the venue sucked… there wasn’t much of a crowd as the headliners, Sunk … Continue reading
Web Essentials 04
Be inspired by the world’s leading web standards gurus. How’s that for an opening sentence? It’s from the Web Essentials 04 conference, announced on the Web Standards Group mailing list yesterday. Yes folks, Dave Shea, Douglas Bowman and Joe Clark, … Continue reading
Color Scheming
I really suck at picking colors, and I have hideous taste – this blog isn’t the only thing of mine that’s lime green and orange. But I keep trying anyway… with this huge list of color scheming tools: Eric Meyer’s … Continue reading
Damn, I missed it
I saw a post that there was a “macrochat” with Ben Forta and other CF peoples this morning, 6am EST, which would mean 4am local Perth time. I wasn’t going to get up because I got up for the worldwide … Continue reading