Author Archives: Dan
Getting Better, Faster
Stephen Caver in his post, Getting Better, pooh-poohs the idea that things can get better in leaps and bounds, but rather postulates that progress is incremental. With all due respect, (quite a bit of respect, actually, given Stephen is a … Continue reading
Barcamp Auckland: Liveblogging.
I know everyone is twittering, but I thought I take a half-assed attempt at some live-blogging. We all found power sockets and introduced ourselves. A great crowd – this is going to be choice! Session One: The future of Web … Continue reading
Charts and graphs and stuff
It’s funny how things come in droves. A good friend of mine has, over the years, written a few applications that require graphing. He has written them as VB applications and when I’ve suggested he make them as web-apps, one … Continue reading
How to hack mintshot; the problems continue.
Here’s another post about mintshot hacks. I’m not sure what happened to the page I linked to the other day; it seems to be down. [Edit: Here’s the google cache of that page.] There are a few good lessons that … Continue reading
Win millions of Mintshot dollars!!
Mintshot is a mess! Cheating, hacks, security flaws… Wow! I must say, I wasn’t overly impressed with Mintshot’s shoddy layouts and presentation, but I never thought it would be so crappy underneath!!
Blue Beanie Day
In case you’re wondering what’s on my head today… Douglas Vos has inaugurated Blue Beanie Day Monday, November 26, 2007 is the day thousands of Standardistas (people who support web standards) will wear a Blue Beanie to show their support … Continue reading
Frameworks. CSS and otherwise.
Jeff Croft hosts a hornets’ nest of a debate over the use (or not) of frameworks in web development. It may pay to first read his previous post on this topic. And probably Jeff’s article on frameworks that he wrote … Continue reading
Mintshop? Mintchop?
Some canny chap has caught onto the Mintshot hype, and has bought up mintshop.co.nz, mintchop.co.nz and mintshots.co.nz. The video clip he’s showing is a bit of a laugh! Tricky stuff.
Mintshot
Mark Ellis and crew have launched Mintshot this week. It’s a site that rewards Kiwis for interacting with their favourite brands. I’m interested to see how it goes – I’m kinda in two minds – there are some good prizes, … Continue reading
Working through
Hope you all had a rad Christmas! It’s quiet in the office. Everyone else be holidaying whilst I be coding. Behold, my desk at work today: Yep. my desk is pimped out to the macs. I’m going down to Gisborne … Continue reading →