Posted in capacity as Module Leader Group Software Development, Department of Computing Sheffield Hallam University A Morgue One hundred students, 10 clients, 5 labs of University PCs, overzealous Facilities department and the Sheffield weather. What could possibly go wrong? Last week was ‘Scrum Week’. Nineteen groups of students working flat out 9-5, Monday to Friday…
Read MoreMany popular visual effects that previously required background images and the use of your Favourite Graphics Editor (FGE or Photoshop for short), can now be done with CSS3 magic. Here is a quick overview of six crucial CSS3 features. Before We Start: Browser support is an issue with these features. You’ll need a decent, lets…
Read MoreIE don’t you just love it? No probably not but unfortunately we still live in a web world dominated by Internet Explorer – Microsoft were just way too successful in getting their browser everywhere. Here in the UK, Internet Explorer in all its different guises, still has the largest market share as calculated by statcounter.…
Read MoreEU law in its infinite wisdom now requires web sites to be explicit about Cookie usage. I am not going to explore the legal rights or wrongs of these regulations. If you want more information see: Information Commissioner’s Office Any EU web users will by now have seen these “cookie consent” forms pop up on…
Read MoreThis is for everybody Danny Boyle’s opening ceremony for the London 2012 Olympics was just fabulous. I was jumping from my seat when the house lifted to reveal Sir Tim Berners-Lee sat at his NeXT computer. One for Geeks. Brilliant. Apparently NBC didn’t know who he was. Hmmm. Check out. http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/.
Read MoreThere is a Swansea but to get there you’ll probably need a map … a Google Map. So here are some quick examples to get you started. All of the following use Google Maps Version 3. Adding a Google Map means adding some Javascript to your page and accessing the Google Maps API. Note: When…
Read MoreFollowing on from my Ten Techie Terms post here are some more jargon busting goodies. 1. Web Standards Web Standards represents the holy grail for web designers/developers. Essentially as web designers/developers we build web pages with a profusion of technologies. The fruit of this hard labour is then viewed in a whole cacophony of…
Read More“Live Long and Prosper” As you move into the world of the web you will need to learn some new vocabulary. In the web world there are a range of technologies, acronyms and disciplines that can confuse the newbie (there’s one already – newbie – personage new to the technology). Here are ten to help…
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