Archive for January, 2008

The Problem Microsoft have

So the hot topic on the web at the moment is over the latest articles on ALA:

Beyond DOCTYPE: Web Standards, Forward Compatibility, and IE8
From Switches to Targets: A Standardista’s Journey

The problem Microsoft have, and have had for years is obvious. Their browsers are broken, and out of blind faith, some developers developed [...]

Tuesday saw the release of the iPhone software version 1.1.3, and amongst the new features it were web clips on your home screen. This allows you to save bookmarks to websites on your home screen, for quick access.

By default the icon used for a web clip will be a screen shot of the page. This [...]

For those interested I have uploaded some more photos to Flickr you can see them on my photo stream here.
I have also added the standard Flickr photo badge to the side bar of my site, as I attempt to push more content through this blog. It’s only a start but I realised after playing with [...]

This-morning I had to quickly run up some questions for someone’s second interview. We were looking for someone with good front end knowledge, so I knocked up some questions to ask them. I found these were very good at getting them talking, and gave them a lot of potential to show they had a strong [...]

The Alps

Jan. 3, 2008 No Comments Posted under: Random

After recovering from a Christmas illness and the now very commercial Norovirus (I like to think I caught it before it hit the BBC website). I have been hitting the slopes in the Alps.

I have risked taking my camera out on a few days and managed to get some good shots, although I would like [...]