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Wanted!

21st January 2010

Wanted! Yesterday it was announced that I’ll be starting a new full time gig at Erskine Design as their new front-end developer. I’m absolutely thrilled to bits to have won the role, and equally so about the possibilities it opens up for me: working with that team. It does however mean that …

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November 2009

jQuery UI 1.7 book by Dan Wellman - a precursor

11th

jQuery UI 1.7 book by Dan Wellman - a precursor

Dan Wellman has just launched his new book about the jQuery UI and his publishers have sent me a copy to review. I’ll have more on that later, but I’m certainly looking forward to reading it; here’s how he describes the book

An example-based approach leads you step-by-step through the implementation and customization of each library component and its associated resources in turn. To emphasize the way that jQuery UI takes the difficulty out of user interface design and implementation, each chapter ends with a `fun with’ section that puts together what you’ve learned throughout the chapter to make a usable and fun page. In these sections you’ll often get to experiment with the latest associated technologies like AJAX and JSON.

I really like the idea of the ‘fun with’ sections, quite often the biggest barrier to absorbing a text book is the tedium of the examples.

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October 2009

ExpressionEngine 2.0 & CodeIgniter

29th

ExpressionEngine 2.0 & CodeIgniter no longer is ExpressionEngine limited to interacting with extensions or modules. No, with CodeIgniter entire applications can interact with your ExpressionEngine install.Kenny Meyers – EE Insider That is very very exciting news. Surely that sneaky little tid-bit is one of the most important parts of this new launch? I’d expect to …

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A brand new website

19th

A brand new website Out with the old and in with the new! My old site was a couple of years old, and I’d thrown it together over a day or two, it has served me well but it’s time for a change. I’ve also switched to ExpressionEngine, which I’ve been wanting to do for …

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Kiliman8

18th

Kiliman8 In February next year I’ll be joining five other lads in a bid to climb Mount Kilimanjaro for charity. We’re hoping to raise in the region of £20,000 and it’s all from the support of lovely people like you! We’ll be supporting both Orchid Cancer Appeal and the National Association for …

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