From the deep
Oct 16
Taking my personal site to new heights
I’ve always been one to grow tired of my personal blog layouts. Knowing this I deliberately started with an almost blank canvas ready for me to add little details here and there. Well, you’re looking at the result after a smidgen of just that.
The header remains pretty much untouched (apart from renaming the ‘Articles’ link to ‘Archive’ and fixing a rendering issue with that there RSS icon) with the main change coming in the way the posts are structured—it’s transformed into a journal where I can write little snippets about interesting things from exploring the vastness of the Interwebs, intertwined with my own articles stepping in to say: “Hello! I am still alive and still have an opinion.”
The footer has been updated to reflect the different ways you can navigate a blog (timeline and categories) with some obligatory links thrown in for good measure, to enlarge my own ego and to some my work and friends.
If you’re using a computer with the font Myriad Pro installed then count yourself lucky—everyone else, I’m sorry, is viewing it in Arial. All-in-all, I’m somewhat pleased with the direction the site is taking. But don’t fear, there will be plenty more little tweaks springing forth in the months to come, I’m sure. Comments welcome, as always.
P.S. There are a few hidden nuggets around the site, happy exploring!
Jul 25
Do Web designers need a body?
I consider myself a “Web developer”, but what does that really mean nowadays? Titles in the Web are a dime-a-dozen: “designer”, “developer”, “engineer”, “creative”, “producer”, “webmaster” and many more. Whenever I respond to someone that I’m a “Web developer” they instinctively think I singularly design Web sites. But they’re wrong. So very, very wrong. I actually program more than I design these days for Centation.
Jul 4
A new beginning
It’s been a long time coming. I’ve even tweeted about it a few times. But it’s finally here. My new personal blog. Its predecessor was built on a system I constructed myself back in 2007—which is old in Web years. I started with good intentions of continuing to develop it and adding the features it needed. However as I grew busier and busier with Centation I just couldn’t spare the time.
From the journal
From the deep
Obligatory links
Create simple UML diagrams on-the-fly
yUML is an online tool for creating and publishing simple UML diagrams. It’s makes it really easy for you to: Embed UML diagrams in blogs, emails and wikis, Post UML diagrams in forums and blog comments, Use directly within your web based bug tracking tool and Copy and paste UML diagrams into MS Word documents and Powerpoint presentations.
Javascript Tidy
One thing I often need to do is to tidy javascript from it’s packed state. Often to fix the developers bugs, add new features or to modify it slightly. I give you, the Javascript Tidy, a tool I couldn’t live without.
jQuery Slider plugin (Safari style)
A pretty awesome slider. Haven’t tried it out yet but the new version seems pretty easy to skin, so you can style it however-the-hell you want (note: click the ‘jQuery Slider update’ link).