Most people will be aware of the concept of a hack day – a number of designers and/or developers getting together for a day to build ‘cool stuff’. These sorts of days happen on a regular basis and quite a few interesting projects have come out of them.
On Friday, Charlie and I attended a hack [...]

Photo: lewishamdreamer (from Flickr)
The past 36 hours haven’t been the best for those travelling with Eurostar. Five trains were stranded for hours in the Channel Tunnel without power, light, food, drink, heating or information. A further train became stuck near Ebbsfleet yesterday evening.
The focus today is on the cause of the incident and [...]

These are a few notes from day 2 of the Future of Web Apps conference in London.  This day turned out to be much more interesting than the last, which is evidenced by the fact that I don’t actually have many notes at all.  I’ve tried to fill in the gaps where required.  You can [...]

FOWA Day 1
Last week I attended the Future of Web Apps conference in London.  For those who haven’t been before – this event is run by Carsonified (a web agency based in Bath) and covers the latest thinking around developing Internet applications.  I went along to the FOWA event in Dublin earlier in the year, [...]

Last week, Neil Williams from the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) published his draft Government Twitter Strategy. I think its about time someone sat down and produced a document like this. Some people have responded to the document negatively (as expected), some positively, and some have completely missed the point.
I wanted [...]

I’m not quite sure where the past few weeks have gone, but quite clearly they’ve passed me by quickly. These are a few things I’ve wanted to blog about but haven’t had the time to write a decent entry. Normal service will resume shortly.
Karoo disconnects file sharers
Hull’s only internet provider – Karoo – has [...]

For web developers and designers the question of who owns your portfolio is an important one.  It is a question that is not as clear cut as you might think.  It seems that depending on your circumstances, you may not have any legal right to display the work that you produce.
The general opinion is split [...]

What’s been going on recently? – well quite a bit really. I’m now settled into my new job at Consumer Focus Labs. We’ve spent a few weeks getting our systems set up (not as easy a task as we’d have liked), our development environment in place and courting ideas from anyone and everyone. [...]

I’ve been a part of the team at VSI for the best part of nine years, originally as a summer job, but more recently as a full time developer. During this time I’ve seen significant changes in the way the internet works, from new technologies and new standards in design, to new ways of [...]

Earlier today at the Future of Web Apps conference in Dublin, Robin Christopherson from UK charity AbilityNet gave a talk on website accessibility.  I’ve seen quite a few different talks and sessions on website accessibility and understand how important this topic is.  This talk however really hit home – Robin is blind and gave the [...]