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Recent posts
Twitter updates- danw: On the patio. Happy New Year! http://t.co/OHihyVO6
- danw: @NZCoderGuy Not correct: $45/$65 plans aren't going anywhere. iPhone handset subsidies for these plans are changing, though. @vodafonenz
- danw: I took it and so should you—The Survey for People Who Make Websites 2011! http://t.co/IKhEG5ek via @alistapart
- danw: Web Meetup, baby, yeah! (@ Telecom Place) http://t.co/dhdq7QmX
- danw: SuperRetro - a new iPhone App http://t.co/FXJr7aHH
Where I’ve been
What’s on my tumblr- On the patio. Happy New Year! (Taken with picplz.)
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- Happy birthday, Laura! (Taken with picplz.)
- Espada! hotvvheels: Fastback Friday
- chromjuwelen: (via absolutely perfect picture)
- sneak: I made this simple site for a side-project called...
- hotvvheels: TZ3 Stradale
- chromjuwelen: 1970 Bertone Lancia Stratos Zero (via...
- wellisntthatnice: The epitome of class. Mercedes W111 Coupe.
- Tres awesome chromjuwelen: 50 Movie Cars (by juanpablobravo!)
Last.fm: recent tracks.- Yelle – Qui est cette fille? (Who's That Girl?)
- Jets Overhead – Weathervanes (Arturo Remix)
- Maybeshewill – Accept and Embrace
- Flight Facilities – Crave You (Adventure Club Dubstep Remix)
- SymbolOne – Last Scene (Daytona Mirage)
- The Crystal Method – Born Too Slow
- Tosca – Prolo
- Boozoo Bajou – Keep Going Feat. Tony Joe White
- Crystal Fighters – At Home
- Crippled Black Phoenix – I'm Almost Home
Google Reader shared- The genesis of Virgin Atlantic
- Mobile First (the book) Now Available!
- SHOWREEL MMXI | THE WARNING
- Follow That Requirement
- RIP Steve Jobs. A classic photo of the man and his BMW.
- Ellis Residence
- The physics of the riderless bike
- BMW. Low. (via Chromjuwelen)
- Tom Selleck's moustache makes every movie better
- OpenLayers Editor Released
Recent Delicious links- Sitting is Killing You
- 4011 2-input NAND gates
- Remove Line Breaks - Delete Carriage Returns & Remove Double Spaces
- The almost-vanished village near Chernobyl
- timeago: a jQuery plugin
- Slides: Team Leadership In the Age of Agile - Elastic Team Leadership in Software - 5 Whys
- txt2re: headache relief for programmers :: regular expression generator
- 320 and up
- Painless Functional Specifications - Part 1: Why Bother? - Joel on Software
- Chromeography: chrome badges, emblems, logos on cars, cameras, appliances
- The 50 books every child should read - News, Books - The Independent
- Useful JavaScript and jQuery Tools, Libraries, Plugins - Smashing Magazine
- TidBITS Networking: Surf Faster in Google Chrome and Safari 5 with Browse By Name
- OpenStreetBlock
- Evidence Meltdown | George Monbiot
My JS stuff on Delicious- timeago: a jQuery plugin
- Useful JavaScript and jQuery Tools, Libraries, Plugins - Smashing Magazine
- Javelin (JS)
- JavaScript Garden
- computed style: Hiring Front-End Engineers
- YUI Theater — “YUIConf 2010 Panel Discussion: The Future of Frontend Engineering” (79 min.) » Yahoo! User Interface Blog (YUIBlog)
- Extreme JavaScript Performance | Nettuts+
- evercookie - virtually irrevocable persistent cookies
- Five Useful CSS/jQuery Coding Techniques For More Dynamic Websites
- Testing Mobile JavaScript
- jQuery Deconstructed
- Seven Must-See Videos and Presentations for Web App Developers - Smashing Magazine
- Modernizr
- Javascript Dependency Management
- Organize jQuery Widgets with jQuery.Controller
My public fiddles
Category Archives: User Interface
Analysing your site’s traffic with Crazy Egg
At work, we’re trying to get the most value from our site’s visitor statistics. We’ve been using both Nielsen//NetRatings and Google Analytics for a while now and these tools are great. Just a month or so ago, we added Crazy … Continue reading
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The New Type
I followed a link to Jeff Atwood’s Coding Horror and immediately realised that there was something different about this site. Calibri. I hadn’t noticed any web sites using the new suite of fonts that ship with Office 2007 until now. … Continue reading
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Eric Meyer: The Veteran’s Charge
Eric Meyer gets (rigthtfully) hot under the collar. Hear, hear, I say. Share
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Irksome: Internet Explorer vs. JavaScript
So I’m coding a form and I want the user to be able to add more rows to it, if they wish. So when the user activates a control, I use JS to create some ‘input’ elements (including some radio … Continue reading
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The Apple iPhone. In NZ. In my hand!
So we hire a new guy at work and on his first day (that’s today) he brings his Apple iPhone. Barely containing the drool, I had a quick play with it and took a few photos for your viewing pleasure. … Continue reading
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Social Networking
So I thought I’d figure out how many social networking applications I had accounts with. I was surprised when I saw just how many I was signed up to. Virb° The best layout/presentation/customisation by far. Profile customisation is amazing &emdash; … Continue reading
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HTML Emails
Jeffery Zeldman writes that email is not a platform for design. I totally agree, and am pleased that someone with clout is saying so. I know I’m more developer than designer, the medium that is email was never intended to … Continue reading
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From the train
I’m writing this post on my mobile phone as I’m commuting to work on the train. I must say that the WordPress interface could look/work better on this small screen. My phone usually carks it when I log in to … Continue reading
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TheyWorkForYou Sparklines
TheyWorkForYou.co.nz is a great resource; it is “a volunteer-run website that aims to make it easy for people to keep tabs on the activity of Aotearoa New Zealand’s Parliament.” It’s a really well-built site, and I’ve just discovered/noticed today that … Continue reading
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Redesigning a corporate web environment
The Challenge I’ve got this friend who is responsible for a corporate front-end web environment with almost a dozen browser-facing web applications. Pretty much all he can do at the moment is change static content in the antiquated and wildly … Continue reading →