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July 30 2010
Top Cat music game on FlashPlayer on Nexus1
I hate to say it but not many Plug-in Media projects are optimised for low end machines. We usually squeeze every bit of performance out of Flash to fill every part of the screen with crazy 3D, pixels and video!
But! We found one that works really well! And it works well for two reasons :
- It doesn’t stretch the processor (unlike our Papervision3D projects like Big and Small and Zingzillas)
- All...
Three Important Twitter Conventions and How They Are Used
C&M* > UK Online PR Agency + Social Media Agency + Social SEO Agency
When we’re in Social Media training workshops with our lovely bunch of clients, we often get asked about the numerous Twitter “conventions”, what they mean, how they are used, and when is appropriate to use them. As such, I thought I’d put together a handy guide on these conventions, which may seem second nature to regular tweeters, but double Dutch to the uninitiated.
@username
@username is the ...
7 ways Google Analytics can help when redesigning your website
Connect - Digital Marketing Expertise from iCrossing
Your analytics data is nearly as important as the financial accounts of your business when it comes to making a decision about your website. Your analytics data helps you understand how effective your site’s marketing, design and content is. And just as you wouldn’t hire more staff without being sure you have the budget for it, you shouldn’t redesign your website without understanding what...
Shout99 : Review on IR35 begins
“Ten years after its introduction, the review of IR35 finally got underway, signaling the beginning of the end for the tax. The Government announced the terms of reference for the long-awaited review of small business tax measures. The new Office of Tax Simplification will look at the issue and have been specifically tasked with trying to find an ‘alternative approach to IR35′. Their...
Member offer: Wine Offer
We are offering a 10% discount on two of our most popular wines:
Kaapzicht Chenin Blanc 2009, Stellenbosch, South Africa
£6.75 per 75cl bottle (normal price £7.50)
Really fresh and crisp with delicious pineapple fruit balanced by tangy, citrus flavours. We think this is great as an aperitif or with a creamy risotto. It also went very well with sauteéd prawns with artichokes, click to see recipe.
Recent acquisitions
Unfortunately, blogging has taken a back seat recently, what with finishing chapter one of my thesis and giving my inaugural conference paper. I’m not sure which was more stressful, but hopefully it can only get easier from hereon in. However, my book buying remains undiminished, and I have a few acquisitions to share with you. An impromptu visit to Old Spitalfields Market (on the way home f...
Recent acquisitions
Unfortunately, blogging has taken a back seat recently, what with finishing chapter one of my thesis and giving my inaugural conference paper. I’m not sure which was more stressful, but hopefully it can only get easier from hereon in. However, my book buying remains undiminished, and I have a few acquisitions to share with you. An impromptu visit to Old Spitalfields Market (on the way home f...
Famous Film Quotes In Infographics
SEO Blog & Web Design Blog by Fresh Egg
Infographics are a relatively recent discovery for me, but they’ve become a minor obsession; I always hated bar-graphs and pie charts when I was young, but infographics have so much more creative potential. So this morning I decided to represent a few of my favourite ‘iconic’ film quotes, see if you can guess them all.If [...]Post from: Fresh Egg Internet Marketing & Web Design Blog
Famous Film...
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Middle-aged women and workplace perceptions
A recent survey conducted by Durham Business School and Age with Attitude has explored the attitudes of women of mid-life women in the workplace. The results seem to reveal a mix of personal and professional self-confidence which goes against the typical media stereotypes. However, they also reveal a commonly held belief that they are treated differently and negatively by others as a result of ...
Don't bank on the 'big four'
July 29 2010
The dysfunctional civil service management strikes again...,
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The PCS Branch Secretary at CSA Hastings, Sam Buckley has recently become the fifth branch officer to be sacked on trumped up charges since November 2007 and several more reps are under threat. The national union regards this as deliberate union busting and is fully behind the campaign’s...
I've got some questions for the Americans....
Firstly some background on the 60 military coups in which the US state is implicated over the last century would be nice. Perhaps they could give us the low-down on the merits of replacing democratically elected governments with...
Collective noun for chuggers
Sitting in the office at lunchtime, we looked out of the window and saw 4 chuggers standing around the end of Bond Street. I was intrigued about the collective noun, so tweeted:
what’s the collective noun for chuggers? There are 4 of them huddled around a lamp-post at the Bond Street/North Street junction
I got quite a few replies, some via twitter and some via facebook.
Helen suggested:
A...
We’re hiring x 2
Hey everybody,
The time has come to embark on another search for two more starships to join our intergalactic fleet of rockets, interplanetary shuttles and lightspeed motherships. Ummmm. Yes.
We are looking for:
- A Junior Consultant – see Wired Sussex for the job ad and process
- A Senior Consultant (or even Board Director) – see Wired Sussex for the job ad and process
Please get in touch if you...
Strange, kind of sad, big old error.
Strange Visual Studio 2010 error message today, with absolutely nothing on Google.
VsTextViewAdapter initialization failure: Trying to create a text view without an available text buffer, current state:Sited
The project is ASP.NET MVC 2.0, and any views that were open when the project was closed are being reopened, but nothing is being rendered, even in code view. Trying to open a C# file...
Hookbox
Hookbox (via). For most web projects, I believe implementing any real-time comet features on a separate stack from the rest of the application makes sense—keep using Rails, Django or PHP for the bulk of the application logic, and offload any WebSocket or Comet requests to a separate stack built on top of something like Node.js, Twisted, EventMachine or Jetty. Hookbox is the best example of...
Mobile app development trends – what languages should you be learning?
Mobile app development is a minefield, there’s so many different platforms, and different things to consider. I decided now was a good time to run through the market today, as of July 2010 and try to identify what you as a developer should be learning, or what business owners should be looking at. The quick answer by the way – it depends.
What’s out there?
Mobile platforms, languages and SDK’s
The...
canto.js: An Improved HTML5 Canvas API
canto.js: An Improved HTML5 Canvas API (via). Improved is an understatement: canto adds jQuery-style method chaining, the ability to multiple coordinates to e.g. lineTo at once, relative coordinate methods (regular Canvas does everything in terms of absolute coordinates), the ability to use degrees instead of radians, a rounded corner shortcut, a more convenient .revert() method and a simple...
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