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01
MAR
2008BarCampManchesterUk & the rest of 2008
Ashamed to say this is my first blog post of 2008! It only took until the third month of the year sitting on the 6.48am train to BarCampManchester with a bit of spare time to get me going again So what have I been doing for the past few months? Working,...
Blogged by densen @ davehudson.name
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01
MAR
2008BarCampManchesterUk Microformats - Shiraz Anwar
Shiraz did a really good intro talk to Microformats. I’ve heard the buzz about microformats but I’d never really understood exactly what they were. Microformats are based upon open data and adding of pre-defined classes to html markup. I’m sure ther...
Blogged by densen @ davehudson.name
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01
MAR
2008BarCampManchesterUK - Data Portability
Ian Forrester did a very thought provoking talk on Data Portability. In this social media age it is especially relevant and the question is raised who actually owns the data on these web pages? You may think you do, but it’s not quite as straight forwar...
Blogged by densen @ davehudson.name
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01
MAR
2008PHP London 2008
On Friday was this year's PHP Conference in London and I must say it was a roaring success. The whole conference had completely gone up a gear from last year (the only other time I've attended) with a larger venue, choice of tracks, more attendees and be...
Blogged by LornaJane @ lornajane.net
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01
MAR
2008M.E.N building invaded by geeks
I went along to the M.E.N Media HQ this morning and just look at what I found!...
Blogged by Sarah Hartley @ blogs.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
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01
MAR
2008Brightbox at Barcamp Manchester UK
Jeremy and I went to Barcamp Manchester last Saturday - our photos are on Flickr as usual. It turned out to be six months to the day since we went live with Brightbox too! We ran a competition on the day: people had to tell us what they’d do with a...
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01
MAR
2008Brightbox at Barcamp Manchester UK
Jeremy and I went to Barcamp Manchester last Saturday - our photos are on Flickr as usual. It turned out to be six months to the day since we went live with Brightbox too! We ran a competition on the day: people had to tell us what they’d do with a...
Blogged by John Leach @ brightbox.co.uk
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01
MAR
2008"Making the Right 2.0 Choice" - My Talk @ BarCamp ManchesterUK
Find below my slides from my BarCamp Talk, more details on BarCamp later.<object style="margin:0px" width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://static.slidesha...
Blogged by Michael James @ blog.mjjames.co.uk
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01
MAR
2008MIX 08 Predictions...
MIX is fast approaching and I'll be there next week - say *Hello* if you see me! :) Here are some things I hope we'll see next week: - Release of a preview of Silverlight 2.0 Release of another preview of the ASP....
Blogged by Plip @ weblogs.asp.net
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02
MAR
2008BarCampManchesterUK - How to be famous?
Jen O’Grady from DemocracyPR did a really interesting talk on how to promote yourself/your business to effectively "become famous" in your arena. It was a really good session as BarCamps have a tendency to get geeky and whilst we all love this, geek ide...
Blogged by densen @ davehudson.name
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02
MAR
2008It’s Not Grim Up North
Crossing the Pennines into Manchester brought the train from sunshine into drizzle, a drizzle continued all day, typical of the grim North (and especially the city of Manchester). But forgetting the rain, the North is the opposite of grim, as yesterday th...
Blogged by tim @ thinkwhere.wordpress.com
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02
MAR
2008Barcamp the pictures
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Blogged by Sarah Hartley @ blogs.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
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03
MAR
2008You're Gonna Eat Lightning and Crap Thunder!!
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Blogged by Andrew Westgarth @ andrewwestgarth.co.uk
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03
MAR
2008YouTube Testing Higher Resolution Video
Following the announcement in November, YouTube has started to test higher quality videos. If you append &fmt=6 to the URL of a YouTube video, you should get better quality videos. Note that this works only for a small number of videos so far. Here...
Blogged by James @ jimmahdigital.com
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03
MAR
2008Practice What You Preach: New NIN Album on BitTorrent
It’s not like we doubted him, but Trent Reznor really meant it when he said that he hates the way the music industry operates and that he encourages sharing of his music on the Internet. Nine Inch Nails have put up the first volume of their album ‘Gho...
Blogged by James @ jimmahdigital.com
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03
MAR
2008Daniel Morris: UK Teens & the Web at Barcamp Manchester
Dan Morris’ session on UK Teens & the Web was one of my favourites of the day, which you can see from my frantically scribbled notes (below). Dan’s working for a semi-autonomous BBC unit which produces online content for teenagers, and had some re...
Blogged by simonwheatley @ simonwheatley.co.uk
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03
MAR
2008BarCamp in Review
As Sarah blogged not once, but twice over the weekend, on Saturday we orchestrated the very first BarCamp Manchester at the MEN offices. Over 100 people had tickets with 80-90 showing up on the day. Over 30 sessions happened. We......
Blogged by Paul Robinson @ blogs.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
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03
MAR
2008It's over. Phew!
Towards the end I was tired, hot and wanted to go home, however we came through and BarCamp was great. I wrote a general overview over at the MEN blog...
Blogged by Paul Robinson @ blog.vagueware.com
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03
MAR
2008Great day at Barcamp Manchester
Barcamp Manchester, held yesterday at the MEN Media HQ, was great and made it clear to me once again that there’s a great web community up here in the North. A very exciting place to be at the moment, and I’m convinced things here will only get better...
Blogged by simonwheatley @ simonwheatley.co.uk
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03
MAR
2008Blog Now Running on IIS7! - Thanks Discount ASP.Net
Good Morning All, I am very pleased to announce that I have now migrated my package with Discount ASP.Net to a Windows Server 2008 and IIS7 Hosting Platform. This blog is now running in integrated mode as will al...
Blogged by Andrew Westgarth @ andrewwestgarth.co.uk
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03
MAR
2008Blog Now Running on IIS7! - Thanks Discount ASP.Net
Good Morning All, I am very pleased to announce that I have now migrated my package with Discount ASP.Net to a Windows Server 2008 and IIS7 Hosting Platform. This blog is now running in integrated mode as will al...
Blogged by Andrew Westgarth @ andrewwestgarth.co.uk
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03
MAR
2008Firefox autocomplete and dual monitors on OS X
There’s an irritating bug on Firefox for OSX when you’re using it with dual monitors. If you plugin the monitor after you’ve started Firefox, and it is in the secondary monitor, the autocomplete for URLs and for search queries will appear on the pri...
Blogged by simonwheatley @ simonwheatley.co.uk
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03
MAR
2008Westward...
Wow - flying from Manchester to JFK and onto San Diego with no delays or interrogations? I almost don't believe it...maybe America's loosening up in anticipation of a new President, maybe it's no longer realistic to put Husseins on the......
Blogged by Imran... @ imran.ali.name
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03
MAR
2008See ya
I started this blog over two years ago, charting my experiences using Ruby on Rails on IIS. As you may have noticed, I don't do that anymore. Not that I have any great hatred for IIS/Windows/Microsoft - it's just not as much fun as staying on t...
Blogged by Baz @ made-of-stone.blogspot.com
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03
MAR
2008Java is bad for your brain talk at Barcamp Manchester
Following on from the talk I gave on why Java is bad for your brain at Barcamp I thought I'd dig out some of my old blog posts and present them here - try and explain the argument (which is more of a feeling of disquiet than anything...
Blogged by Francis Fish @ francis.blog-city.com
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03
MAR
2008Goals for 2008: February update
Sorry - been busy. Really busy. Just enough time to update you on my goals. Revenue: Up. By more than 10%. Probably enough to give me grief in achieving the target next month. But that’s the idea eh? Also explains why I have been so...
Blogged by Rahoul Baruah @ 3hv.co.uk
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04
MAR
2008Microsoft New Guard win argument on IE8
The way I understand it, there are two groups inside Microsoft right now: I shall refer to them (even if nobody else does) as the Old Guard and the New Guys. The Old Guard are the guys who built Microsoft in the first place. They’re the...
Blogged by Paul Robinson @ blog.vagueware.com
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04
MAR
2008Book Review: Professional IIS 7 And ASP.NET Integrated Programming
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Blogged by Andrew Westgarth @ andrewwestgarth.co.uk
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04
MAR
2008Book Review: Professional IIS 7 And ASP.NET Integrated Programming
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Blogged by Andrew Westgarth @ andrewwestgarth.co.uk
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04
MAR
2008Leeds Ruby Thing #2, Thursday 6th March
The Leeds offshoot of the North West Ruby User Group is meeting again this Thursday, 6th March, 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM. This time at Mr. Foley’s Cask Ale House, on The Headrow (formerly Dr. Okells). Expect unstructured discussion of Ruby, Ruby on Rails...
Blogged by john @ johnleach.co.uk
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04
MAR
2008Developer Day Scotland - Session Voting Now Open
It's getting closer and I'm probably a little late in posting about this but hoping I catch the eye of a number of developers in the North of England. Developer Day Scotland is being held in Glasgow on Saturday 10th May and the session voting is now...
Blogged by Andrew Westgarth @ andrewwestgarth.co.uk
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04
MAR
2008Developer Day Scotland - Session Voting Now Open
It's getting closer and I'm probably a little late in posting about this but hoping I catch the eye of a number of developers in the North of England. Developer Day Scotland is being held in Glasgow on Saturday 10th May and the session voting is now...
Blogged by Andrew Westgarth @ andrewwestgarth.co.uk
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04
MAR
2008First Ever Developer Day Ireland - Registration Now Open!
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Blogged by Andrew Westgarth @ andrewwestgarth.co.uk
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04
MAR
2008First Ever Developer Day Ireland - Registration Now Open!
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Blogged by Andrew Westgarth @ andrewwestgarth.co.uk
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04
MAR
2008The Second Leeds Ruby Thing
The Second Leeds Ruby Thing happens on Thursday the 6th March at Mr Foley’s, purveyor of York Brewery ales. No agenda, just excellent beer and talk about Ruby, Rails and all things geeky. And I promise not to talk about punching dogs again (ok - maybe...
Blogged by Rahoul Baruah @ 3hv.co.uk
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04
MAR
2008SEO is 50% hard work, 80% hard luck
A while ago I introduced Jason Feavers to a few SEO techniques to promote his personal training company, of course including blogging and he’s now number one on Google for power plate york. I don’t imagine he’ll stay there forever, but it’s quite...
Blogged by tom @ theotherblog.com
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04
MAR
2008Barcamp Manchester
Well its now tuesday night, barcamp manchester was on saturday so by the time you read this you’ve probably already had your fill.. but anyway I think it was a really good day, although on the day I only sat in one session (and spoke in one session), I...
Blogged by Dominic Hodgson @ thehodge.co.uk
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05
MAR
2008UBarCamp
The half hour or so James and I spent in Caffe Nero across from the MEN offices was vital... we supped mocha, made last minute adjustments to the slides and spent a few nervous moments in the toilet - not together I hasten to add! ...
Blogged by Chris @ menusandblocks.co.uk
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05
MAR
2008User-centred SEO and The Blueprint CSS Framework
I’ve been working with Jo at Track Surveys lately helping them with what I’m starting to call user-centred SEO (but then I do seem to think up crazy names for things). By user-centred SEO I mean that optimising pages and link-building is all well and...
Blogged by tom @ theotherblog.com
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05
MAR
2008Five Top Usability Tips: Exercises Guaranteed To Improve Your Site
I spend a lot of my time explaining to companies how simple design changes can dramatically improve their sites. And despite this, I tend not to do the things I recommend myself on my own site. Plumber’s taps as they say. So yesterday I decided to E...
Blogged by tom @ theotherblog.com
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05
MAR
2008Experimentation
A change is as good as a rest, or so they say. Well this week I’ve been making quite a few changes. It started off with a post from Jorge about integrating Launchpad with GNOME Do. I’d been aware of GNOME Do for a while, but never got around to trying...
Blogged by schwuk @ schwuk.com
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05
MAR
2008Get IE 8 Beta 1 from Microsoft Now!
Microsoft has released the first public beta of Internet Explorer 8 for Windows Vista and Windows XP SP2. Here are the download links for IE8 mentioned on the Microsoft IE8 Readiness website: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Windows XP SP2 Internet Expl...
Blogged by James @ jimmahdigital.com
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05
MAR
2008IE 8: Features Update
Microsoft has put out the IE 8 Readiness Report that discusses the new features in the upcoming release of the Internet Explorer browser. Ajax Improvements Ajax Navigation enables users to navigate back and forth without leaving the Ajax application and...
Blogged by James @ jimmahdigital.com
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05
MAR
2008ETech Day One... (rough notes)
Saul Griffith - Energy Literacy, IoV! Your Cellphone Is Your Controller - megaphone, making digital signage interactice http://www.playmegaphone.com/ Eric Rodenback onstage from Stamen Design walking through various visualisations from Stamen's portfolio...
Blogged by Imran... @ imran.ali.name
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05
MAR
2008Home Everythingability
Jot the wiki tool bought by Google is live again. I expected more if I’m honest. Go play, see what you think. It’s not bad, then again, neither are crutons....
Blogged by tom @ theotherblog.com
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05
MAR
2008Everythingabilty on Jot
Jot is back, the wiki tool that Google bought. It’s not bad, then neither are crutons. Go play and be mildly miffed with the stale air of disappointment. Home (Everythingability) p.s I notice the URLs are escaped so they can kill linky love and track wh...
Blogged by tom @ theotherblog.com
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05
MAR
2008ETech Day Two... (*very* rough notes)
Nat strolled though some of the rationale for this year's ETech before handing off to Stanford's John McCarthy - the inventor of lisp! Steve cousins, an open source platform for personal robotics...willow garage is an R&D lab for non-miltary robotics....
Blogged by Imran... @ imran.ali.name
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05
MAR
2008Why NorthPack Must Die (Or Evolve Soon)
You may be asking, what is NorthPack? It’s a site that aggregates northern tech bloggers run/created by Debs, Dom, Stanton (and others). First The Back Story There is a thing, called GeekUp, and GeekUp is a good thing because although the guys and other...
Blogged by tom @ theotherblog.com
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05
MAR
2008Im a Dad!
Sorry for not posting for so long... but I am now a dad to Adam William Dargan! ...
Blogged by Ross Dargan @ blog.the-dargans.co.uk
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05
MAR
2008Grace under pressure - a new usability testing technique
We returned from a meeting today, where we had showed off a customer’s website. Unknown to us, it had just been revised to fix an internal shopping cart bug. Anyway - the implemented solution to this bug, was, shall we say, interest...
Blogged by Guy @ contentfairy.com
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05
MAR
2008Pics: The March Violets (plus some dodgy support bands)
Do you remember last year ? I've finally got round to putting up my photos from the March Violets gig....
Blogged by nige @ nigel.spowage.info
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05
MAR
2008Facebook: The worst invention for the malcontent
Perhaps it’s selection bias, or people are good at exaggerating their social profile, but Facebook is a rather depressing place for the malcontent. No worse time is than when you find people you went to school with and who, in life, you thought were gen...
Blogged by Peter Cooper @ petercooper.co.uk
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06
MAR
2008It's Been Busy Down Here On NorthCrew Farm
Well well well, I've never blogged on here before.. About a week ago we released some video that literally shook the north (sorry if we damaged your roof tiles!) - our video of ...
Blogged by NorthCrew @ northcrew.co.uk
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06
MAR
2008Forget legacy: Just have fun, feel good, and keep your head above water
It’s been over six months now since I sold Feed Digest. For the first three months I pretty much did nothing. Then we went on the “holiday of a lifetime” for two weeks. Then I spent the next three months doing nothing. “Nothing” is not literal,...
Blogged by Peter Cooper @ petercooper.co.uk
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06
MAR
2008Looking forward to the next BarCamp
BarCamp Manchester was fantastic and I can't wait for the next one. read more...
Blogged by james @ grumpymonkey.co.uk
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06
MAR
2008A productive morning for Litmus
This is a somewhat self-congratulatory post today, after a few weeks of hard slog and testing we finally put the Litmus 24 hour passes live! We’ve received lots of requests from c...
Blogged by David @ davidsmalley.com
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06
MAR
2008New Async Observer Start/Stop scripts
I've updated the Async observer start/stop scripts that I've been using extensively for pushing off long running tasks in Litmus. Combined with a few extra cap tasks this has been working perfectly for...
Blogged by David @ davidsmalley.com
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06
MAR
2008Online Goes Offline And Mobile, How Can Internet Generate Real Money
Taobao, a Chinese C2C auction site owned by Alibaba Group is now definitely a super super star in Chinese Internet, even in the global market. The total value of the trading in 2007 has approached 43.3 billion RMB which reached the total sales of three mu...
Blogged by Gang Lu @ mobinode.com
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06
MAR
2008Download IE8 - Internet Explorer 8
IE8 is probably Microsoft's biggest step forwards in the adoption of Web Standards and with the revelation that standards compliance is to be 'fitted as standards' as opposed to MS's previous claims of having to include a proprietory tag in the code......
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06
MAR
2008This blog is nothing, but a thinly veiled attempt to make money
Yes it’s true. I blog for one selfish reason: financial gain. The great thing is, it finally seems to be working. This website has been up and running for around 2 1/2 years and in that time I’ve gone from not a lot of visitors to a handful to a fair...
Blogged by phil @ imgiseverything.co.uk
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06
MAR
2008Nokia Believes in Phone Shui (Feng Shui)
Feng Shui is an ancient Chinese practice believed to utilize the Laws of both Heaven and Earth, to help one improve life by receiving positive Qi which is in traditional Chinese culture believed to be part of every living thing that exists, as a kind of ...
Blogged by Gang Lu @ mobinode.com
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06
MAR
2008Stop, thief!
I’ve been lucky. I’ve never really been a victim of theft, and when I have it has been for small amounts of money or insignificant items. photo credit: nocklebeast Now I have come across someone stealing the content from my site - and anyone else w...
Blogged by schwuk @ schwuk.com
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06
MAR
2008Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1
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Blogged by Ross Dargan @ blog.the-dargans.co.uk
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06
MAR
2008Northpack: The Local Blog Aggregator, Is Global Passe?
Northpack - a geographic community based blog aggregator for the North of England - is proving that local opinion is a powerful attraction, flying in the face of the zeitgeist that “global is good”. To clarify, local is also in vogue, but only where...
Blogged by Andy Mitchell @ 3dogsbark.com
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06
MAR
2008Advertisement: Front-end Web Developer and Graphic Designer Jobs
There are two jobs with Designition....
Blogged by tom @ theotherblog.com
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06
MAR
2008Giving up on AWN, for now
I’ve shutdown AWN and reverted my GNOME desktop back to the usual top and bottom panels. Although AWN is great, and could well be the interface of the future, I guess I’m just too used to GNOME now. I suspect GNOME Do is here to stay though....
Blogged by schwuk @ schwuk.com
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06
MAR
2008How about calling a spade a spade, eh, HMRC?
Rather shamefully for a web professional, January was the first time I used the online tax return provided by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs. It’s great, a massive improvement on the pencil and eraser, abacus calculator and calculation sheet, of ol...
Blogged by simonwheatley @ simonwheatley.co.uk
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06
MAR
2008BarCamp Manchester Intro
So, you've been wondering were all this BarCamp Manchester footage we recorded over the weekend has gotten too? Well here it is, the intro, and first presentation....
Blogged by NorthCrew @ northcast.co.uk
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06
MAR
20083G iPhone not 2008
Ok so I finally 'obtained' an iPhone from Treker, a Taiwanese colleague and I have to say im impressed with everything other then all the stuff that everyones already talked about on numerous blogs.Oh and I believe the SDK comes out today so whoopdie......
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07
MAR
2008Designer vs Developer - Duelling Banjos!
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Blogged by Andrew Westgarth @ andrewwestgarth.co.uk
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07
MAR
2008Designer vs Developer - Duelling Banjos!
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Blogged by Andrew Westgarth @ andrewwestgarth.co.uk
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07
MAR
2008DHH the windows hater - or maybe needs to think a bit before he spouts off?
Comment left here I am a Rails developer who uses a proper IDE (Netbeans for Ruby) and Windows. Installed Cygwin to give me the bash shell and the other tools...
Blogged by Francis Fish @ francis.blog-city.com
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07
MAR
2008NorthPack API / CityPack anyone?
NorthPack appears to be causing a lot of discussion lately and I for one think its a great concept. My problem is even though its branded as a website to "unite the web professionals of the north" I’m finding there is north, then there is the north! Nor...
Blogged by densen @ davehudson.name
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07
MAR
2008Use TextExpander to create a TinyUrl
I’m a big TextExpander user, so much so that I always find myself typing strange key combinations to do things even when I’m not on my own machine. Whilst I do appreciate t...
Blogged by David @ davidsmalley.com
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07
MAR
2008Why science is wrong
It was the 2nd Leeds Ruby Thing last night and a great time was had again. A smaller turnout than last time but some of the highlights included: Jamie from Engine Yard in a Brightbox t-shirt Dom discussing the pain that the Northcrew feel about Tom Smit...
Blogged by Rahoul Baruah @ 3hv.co.uk
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07
MAR
2008HEMA - How Every Ecommerce Site Should Work
 I’m in the mood for linkbait… and this is excellent. HEMA - online winkelen...
Blogged by tom @ theotherblog.com
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07
MAR
2008things
C64 Orchestra is a project that takes 8 bit computer game tunes and remakes them using an orchestra. It's rather fab, but nothing new as I've mentioned it before.Today I noticed ...
Blogged by nige @ nigel.spowage.info
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07
MAR
2008Use Applescript to post to Pastie
Using the same code as my last post I’ve been trying to create an Applescript I can use to post to pastie using TextExpander. Trouble is, as I’m very short on time and not an Applescript developer I’ve not been able to f...
Blogged by David @ davidsmalley.com
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07
MAR
2008The death of OpenCoffee Manchester
I wrote this article about a week ago, but resisted posting it. Reading it back, I’m now even more convinced I’m right. The simple truth is, OpenCoffee as a format doesn’t work in M...
Blogged by Paul Robinson @ blog.vagueware.com
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07
MAR
2008Questions for Apress authors (or Apress themselves)
At the start of January 2008, I received my statement from Apress for the sales of Beginning Ruby. I even published it for all to see here. I had some questions to ask, so dropped the publicist (the always excellent and responsive Julie Miller) at Apress...
Blogged by Peter Cooper @ petercooper.co.uk
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07
MAR
2008BarCamp Doncaster
Just putting it out there, any takers? BarCamp Doncaster...
Blogged by Steve @ tekopia.co.uk
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07
MAR
2008Error Message of The Day
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Blogged by tom @ theotherblog.com
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07
MAR
2008Lenovo MID in Hand, It is WiMax Powered
When I saw it’s in my friend’s hand, I was wondering that why he brought a PSP with him as it was supposedly to be a business meeting. Obviously he saw the question on my face and kindly handed this gadget over to me. Wow, it is the Lenovo MID (Mobile...
Blogged by Gang Lu @ mobinode.com
