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CSS Cansei de Ser Sexy vs. W3c

Friday, May 11th, 2007

Surprised that no geeks have mentioned the relationship between CSS:

  1. the language used to describe how an HTML document should be formatted, and
  2. the Band from Brazil (link to wikipedia)

Both with the same name.

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Skillswap Brighton - Microformats Workshop

Friday, May 11th, 2007

A great introduction to microformat examples

May 11, 2007 by Jim Callender
photo of 'Skillswap Brighton Microformats'

★★★★☆

A review of last nights presentation on Microformats by Jeremy Keith, at the Lighthouse, Brighton.
It was a relaxed affair, ’s 3rd event this year.. There was about 15 other freelancers in a room with Jeremy on a sofa in front of a projector..

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notes from Internet World

Thursday, May 3rd, 2007

The annual event held at Earls Court in London, saw many more people attending the event than last years.. Over 3000 people filled the venue each day.

Also probably the least geekiest web event to attend in the web industry calendar.

I attended on the wednesday, when I saw the following presentations:

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Improvements to Jayonline

Friday, April 13th, 2007

I’ve found some time and only gone and added extra functionality to Jayonline.

1/ AJAX functionality - to show the blog feed on the homepage which is in HTML format.

Partly due to Jeremy Keith writing ‘Bulletproof AJAX‘, a book which I have read recently. He has some examples of the code online, which is a great place to start playing around and seeing how the functionality can work for you.

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The Highland Fling ‘progressive enhancement’ conference review

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

Notes of the inaugural Scottish web conference organised by Alan White

An early start from Brighton to attend a conference in Edinburgh, with an interesting title. As Edinburgh is not in the highlands, but perhaps a great subtitle of progressive enhancement to attract us southerners to make the trip across the borders.

Aim of conference: The first Scottish conference based on progressive enhancement demonstrating what we can do today for tomorrow > learning the correct methods of web development > progressive enhancement of the web.

Photo of Jeremy Keith’s Secret Fling

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Best piece of advice - Nicolas Hayek

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007

Quote from the businessman who turned around Swatch in the 1980’s. Today responsible for around 25% of the worlds watch sales. Also on his portfolio are Calvin Klein, Omega and Tissot.

Best piece of advice

“I never follow advice, That’s because whenever I wanted to take a risk and create something new, I was advised not to do it. But I always went ahead and did it anyway.”

New Offices

Wednesday, April 4th, 2007

An exciting move for me, and a natural progression for most freelancers is to get a office for their business.

I have moved into the bustling North Laine area of Brighton. I have a second floor office on the corner of Jew Steet and Church Street. And no, it isn’t a shared workspace community.

I been in there 3 days and it’s a bit like moving house, you have to live and work there a while to get a feel for how you want everything around you. Of course, i’ve bought the obligatory Ikea office bits, a nice lamp and have room for my macbook and windows laptop.

The office has meeting facilities and room for my folding bike, its a really nice ‘next step’ in my freelance life.

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