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 MoreSorry Grandad, frames and tables – you’re having a laugh aren’t you? Before you abandon this post for been just soooo 1990s I only want to clear up a few things related to our old (friends!) frames and tables. Lately, and somewhat unbelievable, I have seen references to these technologies as layout techniques – noooooooo!…
Read MoreIn my 20/20 CSS properties to learn and love I didn’t include ‘position’. So what is the position on position? The odd thing with position is that despite its name you can do an awful lot of layout positioning without it. Lots of web designers, and indeed frameworks like the 960 grid, solved the layout…
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 MoreIn January 2011 Google caused a storm in a tea cup when they stated their intention to remove H.264 video support from their implementation of the HTML5 <video> tag. But that doesn’t seemed to have happened. At the same time Mozilla stated their support for open standards – OGG and WebM – as opposed to…
Read MoreAdobe P P P Piss Off a Penguin With Flash it was supposed to be build once play anywhere. But having lost the Flash Player on mobile it looks like Linux users are next in line – at least in terms of a comprehensive service. I was at the London Flash Platform User Group’s event…
Read MoreAdobe Edge, available in beta, is a ‘post Flash’ animation tool. It generates animations constructed with web standards HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript (mainly piggy backing on jQuery). The interface is very familiar to Adobe After Effects in terms of the timeline and property keyframes. In terms of functionality it has the lightweight options for adding…
Read MoreLoads of news coming out from Adobe this week as they hold their Annual Beanfeast MAX. There was the obligatory Photoshop pixel fairy magic. The one that got people most excited appeared to be the ‘deblur’ tool. Expect this to replace the Content Aware Fill as the killer Photoshop demo to wow your audience. But…
Read MoreAlways fun to see what Auntie Beeb will come up with their redesigns. The Beta site makes use of jQuery to place a very large carousel in what is a very boxy design. They have gone for a 976px width for the main content but no responsive design. The Beeb Luuuve the iPad They luuuve…
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…
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