You wish you were here…

Yesterday I had the pleasure of spending time in several bookshops, just browsing. One of the stores I visited was Kinokuniya, in George St. It’s a great store (if at times a little over-priced), with a huge range of books. But because the shop is so large, they try and help shoppers with a touch-screen [...]

Over at my work blog, we have just uploaded a post about how we created a Flash Text Cloud for one of our recent clients. Bottom line, if you are in need of a faux tag cloud made in Flash, there is both a download and example for you to enjoy. And if you’re interested [...]

So, at work we are currently doing some testing out of the Facebook API, and short of coming up with the next best idea on the web, I decided to re purpose a version of Solitaire I made a few years back in Flash. So here is is for everyone to enjoy :

If you haven’t had a chance yet, go check out the redesign of ABC news. It is a shiny example of what can be achieved when you embrace some of the cool new HTML/CSS/Javascript techniques, while maintaining accessibility and increasing useability. Even better, it doesn’t have banner ads.. (yet). Oh but it’s pretty!! Homepaged already. [...]

SMH.com.au has started showing the entire print version of their daily newspaper online : SMH News Paper Direct. Screenshot taken from smh.newspaperdirect.com Im not sure what I think of this idea yet – mainly I think it’s a waste of time, but there are parts that could be good from an accessibility point of view. [...]

18 months ago, my fiance gave me an iPAQ 6365 PDA. I was over the moon – the first PDA i’d ever owned, it played music, took photos, and to boot had a mobile phone built into it. Even better, it had all these awesome wireless technologies built right into it… I couldn’t even begin [...]

OK, so I may not be a hard-core programmer like some in th room (you know who you are), but there are times when I really enjoy understanding just that little bit more about the (computer) world we live in today. So it was a very pleasant time spent on Kirupa this evening, learning and [...]

Announcing the (playstation-style underwhelming) launch of labs.shiftperception.com (NOTE: there is currently no way of accessing the content in this directory, but there will be soon). I wanted a place for unfinished experiments to live on my server, and all / the / cool / guys / seem / to / have / one, so I [...]

OK, so this isn’t so amazing or new or anything other than what it is… which is a very simply Flash tool I made today at work to help describe to clients how long something takes to download on a 56k dialup vs a DSL connection. Props to OJ for the functions to calculate the [...]

The popular Flash javascript embed techniques SWFObject and UFO have joined forces to create SWFFix. Still in it’s alpha stage, this is a development to keep an eye on. They have already created this very useful test suite which highlights the complexity of making a generic and graceful embed technique for Flash content. Really, it [...]

Ahhh, my life is now complete… now I can search for coffee shops in Sussex St without leaving the office! That will make life soo much easier Seriously though (as I remove my tongue from my cheek), I feel like we are getting to some kind of mapping nirvana, a synergy of place that didn’t [...]

So, I’m a little slow in upgrading my WordPress build – primarily because I still use a great little plugin called Exhibit, which was created by Owen Winkler what seems like a thousand years ago. Now there may be many better options out there that I haven’t explored, but I like Exhibit because it’s a [...]

Well, this is an idea that has been kicking around for some time, but it was highlighted by a discussion I was having at work today. When will the OS as we know it die, and be replaced by the browser as the OS of choice? Consider all of the applications offered by Google, which [...]

So you like coding in Ruby, but want to optimise your production speed? Rails and Vim. OJ, this one’s for you.

We are in the process of experimenting with Radiant CMS at work, and while looking at the sites that have been built with it, I stumbled across an excellent (and aparently well loved) Ruby site called Try Ruby (in your browser). I’m sure im the last person in the world to have visited this site [...]