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lowersrc: dynamic images for wireframing

Everything has already been done on the internet. I know that, that’s why I never check to see if an idea has been done before I do it. I’d just never do anything otherwise. And here is such a project. It’s called “lowersrc: Loren Ipsum for images”. Lowersrc dynamically generates images for use in prototyping […]

WadBug – mobile web developer toolbar

Back in the dark ages of web development (2003) debugging tools were extremely limited. You just had to kind of “think like a browser” to figure out why something wasn’t working. Thankfully, those days were banished forever with the introduction of the extremely influential Web Developer Toolbar by Chris Pederick. A while ago I realised […]

Intresting things

Here’s some interesting things that you know about all already. As you loyal readers know, this blog contains very few “here’s a link I found” posts. That’s because I know that you know about it already. But if there was an internet water cooler, I’d certainly rattle off items from a list of things I’d […]

URL shrtng

URL shorteners are a great for turning long links into short links – and this is fantastically useful for… phew, um, I dunno – ever-so-slightly lowering bandwidth, perhaps? But still, why not take advantage of these free and stupid services! I know most of you detest the thought of clicking on a link that (behind […]

iOS4 touchend to end all touchends

I went to play the ol’ Some Adventure Guy on the new iOS4 on my 3GS (sooo many TLAs!) – but alas, my already crappy controls had become even more crappier! And it looks like a crazy change (hopefully bug) in webkit’s touch handling is to blame.

humans.txt

Act like a machine. Web3.0 – the semantic web – is just around the corner (I think we’re at Web2.8.0 at the moment) which means the days of human relevance is coming to an end. We had a good run, and we contributed a lot of semi-interesting things, but now it’s the machines turn. One […]

Wireframing on a budget

My co-worker recently asked me what the deal was with all the post-it notes that perpetually orbited me, getting lodged in my hair and coffee and such. My overly detailed explanation caused me to realise that I’d developed a trick (that perhaps everyone has been doing forever – I dunno) which might also be useful […]