Recent Articles
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Iconic Interiors Shortlisted for “Top 10 Sites of 2008” Interactive Media Award
11th June, 2009
IconicInteriors.com, a website we designed and built, and already the recipient of a “Best in Class” Interactive Media Award, has been shortlisted for the “Top 10 Sites of 2008” Interactive Media Award.
Our fellow nominees include BMW, Amnesty International, the Worldwide Fund for Nature, and MSN.
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Using git to Manage an ExpressionEngine website : Setting Everything Up
9th June, 2009
The first installment in this series was little more than an introduction. Now it’s time to get your hands dirty, setting up git, and laying the groundwork for your day-to-day development tasks.
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Using git to Manage an ExpressionEngine website : Starting the Conversation
2nd June, 2009
I’ve yet to see a proper discussion about best practises for managing an ExpressionEngine site with git.
This series of posts is my attempt to fill that gap, by documenting how I use git to manage ExpressionEngine websites. My goal is to start a conversation on this topic, from which we can all (myself included) benefit.
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Labgruppen.com Bags an “Outstanding Achievement” Interactive Media Award
12th May, 2009
You can tell work is busy when you bag an Interactive Media Award, and don’t get ‘round to mentioning it to anyone for a month.
Which is a roundabout way of announcing that Labgruppen.com — a site we designed, built, and continue to maintain — has received an “Outstanding Achievement” IMA.
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The Lack of Enterprise Show
7th May, 2009
A few weeks ago I wandered into The Enterprise Show, and local initiative to encourage more people to go into business for themselves.
In stark contrast to the inspirational tone of the advertising, The Enterprise Show turned out to be a rather soul-destroying event, focusing entirely on the tedious legal and accounting minutae involved in running a business.
Hardly the inspirational fillip that budding local entrepreneurs are seeking.
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Atebits’ Common-Sense Approach to Licensing
22nd April, 2009
Along with what seems like the entire Mac Twitterverse, I’ve just shelled out a few quid for Tweetie, the new Mac Twitter client from Atebits.
It would seem that Atebits’ talent for simplifying complex interactions extends way beyond the user interface, to the traditionally murky waters of software licenses.
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An Alternative Approach to Password Confirmation
16th April, 2009
I read an interesting article over at the Viget Labs website this morning, about the annoyances associated with the traditional “Password / Confirm Password” fields on sign-up forms.
The author, Kevin Vigneault, proposed several alternatives, one of which (the “Show Password” checkbox) is used in a number of Mac OS X applications. This got me thinking about a possible solution not mentioned by Kevin, which is the standard way the iPhone handles password input.
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Kicking the Business Book Habit
11th April, 2009
Until fairly recently, I was an avid reader of small-business books. The E-Myth Revisited, Duct Tape Marketing, The Four Hour Work Week, you name it — if it was about the process of running and growing a small business, it was required reading.
Now, I actively avoid reading such books, and this is working out rather well for my business.
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In the Club
2nd March, 2009
Groucho Marx once famously quipped that
I don’t want to belong to any club that will accept people like me as a member
.I’m clearly a little less picky, having just become a proud member of the ExpressionEngine Professionals Network.
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New ExpressionEngine Module : SL Developer Info
24th February, 2009
Our new module, SL Developer Info, collects all the information you need when building an ExpressionEngine site, and displays it in one location.
Weblog information, custom fields, Template preferences, File Upload preferences, the works. Simply open SL Developer Info, and it’s all there waiting for you.