Archives for 2007
I think its the series of excellent diagram’s, that make me feel I’ve never really understood the world of EIA until I read Enterprise Information Architecture in Context by James Melzer. For anyone involved in web content management, knowledge management or system developments, I recommend reading this.
I found this Kensington Contour backpack on the list. Great name – not. Sounds like a wallpaper brand. Its got good reviews on Amazon (and cheap) and the computer compartment is 11.5"L X 15.8"H X 1.9"W according to this review site, which will fit my chunky 17" laptop.
Just put a site together for Year of the dog films a great film production company based in Nottingham.
TV – decided on a Panasonic TX-26LMD70 – 26″ Widescreen – only £430 at Curry’s online. This is great TV, I can highly recommend it for colour, features, ease of use. Its also time to look at the hi-fi; hard to part with my Technics separates as they’ve served my well, but its just to [...]
Its a tough question, and I like this answer: “You can’t design for 1024×768, or 800×600. You have to design for the web.” from drewm
________________________________ Results for Phill Howson ColdFusion MX Date Taken: 10-Jul-2007 Test Event ID: ZC11812-KF7NFLGL Overall Score: 3.92 Weights: 100% ColdFusion MX Elapsed time: 25 min 17 sec ________________________________ Percentile: Scored higher than 74% of previous examinees Proficiency Level: Advanced (Master) Demonstrates a clear understanding of many advanced concepts within this topic. Appears capable of mentoring [...]
Cool service, owned by Google. Allows you to merge your blog posts with delicious bookmarks in a single feed.
For use in the ColdFusion Chr() function http://www.phillhowson.com/projects/coldfusion/chr.cfm
I was looking for a simple way to compress web pages to reduce bandwidth and speed up the site .There's probably some good reasons why IIS and Apache don't include compression utilities by default, but the reasons for that are beyond my comprehension at the moment. There's some commercial products you can purchase for IIS [...]
Just completed my wife’s website, promoting her new work for the Riches of Stitches exhibition. Check it out : Becky Howson textile artist and designer
During my search for ways to send bulk email effectively I came across a company Mailchimp that have an online email marketing product, which is so simple it gives you that “why didn’t I think of that?” feeling. They have provided the design guidelines which are to help you avoid the dreaded spam filters and [...]
There’s no MS Visio for OS X, so if you need to open and work with Visio files on the Mac you’ll need a copy of OmniGraffle Pro. If like me, you tried to open a .vsd file only to find OmniGraffle can’t open them, try this free online conversion tool which will convert .vsd [...]
If you’re a developer or tester, you simply need to get the Firebug add-on. I’ve lost track of the amount of times its helped me but the latest time was testing some Flash content that was developed by a design agency. The agency used swfObject to do the Flash detection and setting variables and was [...]
Received my Pioneer DVR-K05 drive from PCCentre Hong Kong and installed it following the Instructions from Apple. Fitting it was a piece of cake, the only thing not in the instructions is that you have to remove the old drive from an Apple metal case by unscrewing the 6-pointed screws.I also had to remove the [...]
After a couple of years of light use, the Superdrive in my iMac G5 broke. Just started spitting disks out. To be honest, it was never the fastest or most reliable of drives but convenient nonetheless. So I spoke to the local Apple centre who told me they (nor official Apple stores) sold replacement parts! [...]
This week I have been mostly Prince2 training. Spent an interesting few days learning all about Prince2. Its a project management framework with roots in government and software development but has expanded to become useful in a range of fields. The course doesn’t train you how to become a PM, only how to use the [...]
I wrote the NCSL E Learning Guidelines: Technical and Design Specification document whilst working at NCSL, to improve standards and consistency of commissioned online materials. This document is designed for suppliers of e-learning to understand the technical requirements for creation, testing and integration of e-learning units into NCSL’s Learning Gateway. It is assumed that the [...]
When sending a long URL in an email, there is a chance that the link may become truncated or malformed by the recipient’s email program – this typically happens because some email programs wrap the URL for on-screen formatting and break the link. The recipient may not be able to click the link, or the [...]
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