See the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) Go to Iceland Go to Vegas Drive route 66 in a winnebago A golf tour of all Scotland’s championship courses with my friends – Turnberry, St Andrews, Troon, Loch Lomond, Gleneagles Play golf in America – Augusta and Pebble Beach Run the London or New York marathon Stargazing. See the plantes [...]
Working at STV I get to see a fair bit of random stuff lying about or passing me by in the corridor. Rubber zombie arm Back seats of a minibus A Chinese dragon Box of puppies Cheerleaders An Iron board Elvis lookalike My next door neighbour with his prize antique The PM David Cameron Raleigh [...]
The PS3 uses the NetFront browser. Developing for this is like web development in the days when ie5.5 or ie6 were the dominant browsers. Some things I have picked up that might help someone when developing for PS3: There seems to be a scrollbar that appears all of the time and the best way to [...]
I done some research on iphone 4 contracts before deciding on who to go with. The values in bold are the actual cost of the phone once you pay your monthly bill and the cost of the phone. 24 Month Contracts 02 £25 pm – 100m, unlimited txt, 500 data, £279 phone = £36.61 £30 [...]
I have been to about 8 major web development conferences over the past 5 years. So at a rate of more than 1 per year I would say I am quite well placed to comment on whether they are worth the money. To cut a long story short the answer is YES. If you leave [...]
I have been developing a few mobile sites recently and want to document the things I have found out along the way. Keep it relative – Use percentages for horizontal widths and em’s for vertical padding and margins. I have found this to be the most consistent way of getting results without pixels. Let it [...]
After 6 months of frustration I have decided to bite the bullet and get rid of my Nokia N97 and replace it with the HTC Hero. Nokia’s flagship device of 2009 is a big failure and here are a few reasons why: Setting Up I wrote a post about 5 months ago detailing the problems [...]
I have added event and review rich snippets to the venue pages and business pages on STVLocal. Rich snippets allow you to tag information within the page which Google can then take and use as part of the Search Engine Results Page. For a venue Google will pull out 3 events for that venue, giving [...]
I have updated this site with a few techniques that I have been reading about in the web dev community. Some of them are pretty obvious and others are simply code tweeks. I have took the attitude of using advanced CSS techniques that will only get seen in modern browsers, also known as “too hell [...]
After some consideration I bought the Nokia 97 last week over a few other phones I was looking at. My decision was based on the camera and FM radio that I felt gave it the edge over the iphone + I am would not be tied to a 2 year contract as I could get [...]