Monthly Archives: July 2008

Creepy female robot

I had to put this one in “robots doing good” and “robots doing evil” because she’s helping sell sunscreen, which is good, but she’s really disturbing, which is bad.

Del’s “nutty device”

Incorporating web standards into your design brief or RFP

Working on a design brief for a radical makeover of the website at work, and have been doing a bit of digging around into how people specify web standards in their project specs. Came across this post from quite a while ago, and ended up using it as sort of a template, with some modifications:
Usability, [...]

The Nautilus

Some amazing footage of a Nautilus from a nighttime dive by paleontologist Peter Ward.

The Survey for People Who Make Websites

A List Apart, the online “magazine for people who make websites,” has announced another round of surveying for its “survey for people who make websites.” Last year, almost 33,000 people took the survey.

Annoyance from Ticketmaster

So, I was all looking forward to redeeming my “iTunes songs, compliments of Ticketmaster” that I got from a ticket purchase…

But when I go to actually redeem them, I get this:

I purchased the tickets on March 25th and the offer expires on April 30th? What kind reward is that? Perhaps, oh, say, the kind they [...]

More cakePHP tips

Continuing from my last post on choosing a php web development framework, here are some more tips on cakePHP that you may not otherwise come across as quickly

if you change your database (as configured in app/config/database.php) make sure to delete the files in app/tmp/cache/models (see here)
cakePHP will do some nice automation work for you if [...]

The magic of the free market explained

Great comic from Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling.