Tim Parkin
Windows has Crashed.. I'm so happy!!!
You could be understandably confused by this title but heres the story. Today
wanted to test out a peice of software which was going to help me finish a
job off very quickly. However, I didn't really know the covenance of this
peice of code and so was not totally surprised when, subsequently, my system
started behaving strangely. Normally I would uninstall the software and hope
it hadn't done any damage.
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Namespaces and PHP
I don't mean to criticise PHP a lot. I know a lot of people who have serious
problems with it but I seem to get by.
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Fast Company on the Power of Blogs
`Fast Company`_ offer a great `article`_ on why blogs mean business.
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Stop Design Deprecated FIR
Douglas Bowman of `Stop Design`_ presented a talk at SxSW about the
deprecation of the original FIR technique.
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Google Updating Website
It's nice to see that Google is refreshing our newly designed website. What
was intersting is that the home page was indexed within hours. The news page
a couple of days later. It seems obvious that this means that they know
content changes on those pages more often.
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It's All About Speed
We've made another site live this week with an emphasis on speed. `EDGE
Tuning`_ specialise in performance tuning parts for Japanese cars and a
review of the competition showed that they were almost universally unclear,
slow to load and not focused on the process of purchasing.
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Google URLs
Simon Willison `posts`_ that he typically now uses a set of keywords rather
than a domain to access a website (e.g. although I now know the url for both,
I would have typed "`css garden`_" or "`css vault`_" into google).
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More Leeds Bloggers
Aha .. Following the `Leeds Webring`_ has led me to someone else who has just
updated their blog. Looks very nice too. `Paul Holloway`_ is also working on
an issue tracker for his employer.
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Discovering Leeds Bloggers
I've sort of made is a task to try to find more people in Leeds who blog. I
know of the `Leeds webring`_ through `Neil's World`_ and his mentioning of it
`here`_. I'm going to have a good look around to see what's happening in the
blogging fraternity up North.
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Added Journal to main site
We've integrated out jounral/blog system with the rest of the site. Keep an eye out for new posts or subscribe to one of our rss feeds.
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