Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, Building Websites, Technology, The Main Thread on Oct 5th, 2007 No Comments »
Well today, or more precisely what’s left of it in the US, the 4th of October, is the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik. Neat… why haven’t we gone to Mars yet?
Off to TechCrunch40 (thanks to ‘mac’ for his observations) where one of the things which caught my eye was that there were a [...]
Posted in Building Websites, Mini Rants, SocioPolitical, The Main Thread on Jun 19th, 2007 No Comments »
It seems my previous post was quite timely. Yesterday the Federal Government released its policy on broadband. Of course, one can debate whether this was ‘forced’ by the Labor party’s pre-election broadband policy release.
The whole area of telecommunications policy is pretty complicated - we are still in a, and it will take a long time, [...]
Posted in Building Websites, The Main Thread on May 5th, 2007 No Comments »
In a previous post I covered a group of (mostly) free tools which I find useful during web development. Time has moved on so it’s time for an update.
First the tools I referred to earlier:
Pixvue. Unfortunately this is no longer being maintained (and that’s exactly what the web link says..). I’m still using it for [...]
Posted in Building Websites, SecondLife, The Main Thread on Jul 30th, 2006 No Comments »
Some initial observations on Second Life
Second Life is a Internet connected 3D Virtual World. It is privately owned by Linden Lab. If you or I wish to participate (and have the computer hardware and broadband connection necessary to do so) we can sign up on a free, or subscription, basis, download the client software, and [...]
Posted in Building Websites, Cultural, The Main Thread on Jul 29th, 2006 No Comments »
(originally posted sometime in 2005)
You may have heard that the Macclesfield Psalter, a 14th century East Anglian illuminated manuscript, which was export banned by the UK government, has been purchased by the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, UK. The saviours were quoted as:
the National Art Collections Fund , the National [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, Building Websites on Jul 21st, 2006 No Comments »
I build websites personally, professionally and with an optimistic passion but just lately I have felt like this sometimes (thanks Andy)…
Posted in Building Websites, The Main Thread on Jul 19th, 2006 No Comments »
Well.. having now spent the best part of the last 3 months of my life building web sites (Fitz, CG9, tidying up 36RAC and WrightSite, and recently starting to work on the new BNS site and concurrently re-building the Fitz Intranet) here’s the short list of (free) tools you should not be without, in my [...]
Posted in Building Websites on Jun 22nd, 2006 No Comments »
Well, having just spent a few hours, literally, getting a few pages through css, xhtml and WAI automated testing I’m more convinced than ever I need a good validating editor for editing page content which is designed to be hosted on a framework (or in a content management system) because of course these are page [...]
Posted in Building Websites on Oct 28th, 2005 1 Comment »
I think the time between posts is what’s called ignoring your blog..
Been busy looking at the world throught the content management telescope actually. Having looked at various systems (OpenSourceCMS and CMSMatrix are useful tools in this regard) including, but certainly not limited to:
mambo
typo3
drupal
plone
I decided they were all actually ‘too heavy’ for my [...]