My first half marathon ...
Right - this is it ... my first post in a long long time ... and it's to ask for money.
I'm running a half marathon next month in aid of the Afghan Connection - a charity building schools and cricket pitches in Afghanistan.
I've put up a Just Giving page which has more details ... check it out and please donate:
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Today's Guardian ... brilliance
Today's Guardian is an exceptional example of what can happen when big media companies open up to the outside world.
The Guardian opened up it's Content API allowing people to "Select and collect content from the Guardian for reuse. Get access to over 1M articles going back over 10 years in addition to today's content, the Guardian's tagging information architecture, picture galleries, podcasts and video ". Wow.
So, Phil Gyford went to work and created this immensely readable online version of the current day's newspaper. It's brilliant.
Take a look at Today's Guardian and read about the process / thoughts behind it all.
Superb.
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The ExpressionEngine and CodeIgniter Conference (EECI2010) - roundup
So, the The ExpressionEngine and CodeIgniter Conference (EECI2010) happened at the beginning of the month ... I don't go to many conferences, and I didn't go to this one either but I wish I had been able to - if only to see Simon Collison give this presentation on subconscious design.
Simon set up and ran Erskine Design which is one of my 'hero' agencies. He recently left though - but he still has a lovely website and is clearly still doing great work.
A collection of articles from EECI2010 can be found on the EE blog here.
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Our minds need to go on a diet ... Alain de Botton
A lovely short piece from Alain de Botton on how our capacity to concentrate on anything at all has diminished dramatically.
One of the more embarrassing and self-indulgent challenges of our time is the task of relearning how to concentrate. The past decade has seen an unparalleled assault on our capacity to fix our minds steadily on anything.
I've become so conscious of this as I continue to read around the subject of web design in particular. Every new development is pitched to give you the impression that it's vital we all turn our attention to it now. NOW. It's tiring.
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Flickr web design inspiration
For anyone who's interested, I keep an ongoing Flickr inspiration stream of websites I've found that, for one reason or another, I've found inspiring. You can find it here: Flickr inspiration.
Site Launch - Hannula & Halom attorneys goes live ...
Really pleased to release this one into the wild ... it's a neat looking corporate site for Duluth Attorneys Hannula Halom. I was really pleased to get the opportunity to work on this ... sometimes it's nice to have a clean corporate project rather than anything a little more funky!
Build Conference coming back to Belfast
This was a good event last year with Tim Van Damme, Mark Boulton, Wilson Miner and, of course, Eric Meyer speaking ... this years event looks to be just as strong, and early bird tix have just gone on sale ...
Divvy for OSX, and great HTML5 readiness chart
If you've ever spent about 15 minutes resizing and positioning windows in OSX so that you can get the optimal screen set up for the next several hours of your working day ... then it's time to automate it all with Divvy - this great little app for only $14 allows you to select a working window and then quickly assign it to a position and area of screenspace. Okay, no, I'm not explaining it very well, but they have a video on their website which explains it all nicely. Well worth the $14.
And then, this handy little interface which shows you which browsers support which features of HTML5 - which is a great little resource (the website, not HTML5). We can start building with this now - we really can - we just need to provide an alternative for those more 'challenged' browsers. Ahem.
Google's font API
A crazy amount of font related good news this morning ... Typekit and Google announce their open source collaboration which is hugely exciting - and then, Typekit are supporting Google's open source font collection to make switching between the services super easy.
Embedding the new google open source fonts is as easy as adding two lines of code ... it's that simple. And as Typekit say:
Using real fonts on the web is no longer something to look forward to – the technology is ready, the industry has responded, and designers are building sites with them every day.
Great stuff. Expect to see a slew of websites sporting Tangerine within days ...
Google predicting the future
As if google didn't know enough about you, me and everything else, it is now investing in a firm that predicts the future. We're screwed.
On a lighter note: here's 8 websites you should stop building now. 2, 5 and 7 people ... you know who you are.
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