Category Archives: Commentary
Web administrator wanted!
We’re looking for a web administrator to help us out for at least a couple of months. Read more about it!
SimpleBits tune-up
It looks like Dan Cederholm is giving SimpleBits a bit of a tweak. Watch this space.
End of support for Netscape browsers
AOL has announced that support for Netscape browsers will cease as at February 1st, 2008. This browser marque dominated IE for many years in the early days. Long live Mozilla 🙂
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
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!!
SimpleBits realign is live!
Following on from what I blogged earlier, SimpleBits has now undergone its transformation. This is a perfect example of a design realignment – no radical, from-scratch redesign. Dan has kept the best bits; the bits that already worked well. And … Continue reading →