Journal

Web standards and why I really don't care

2009-03-02T16:01:36Z

I've posted a rather exciting new blog article about web standards and web developers on my agencies blog. You can find it here - http://swn.gg/blog/web-standards-and-why-i-really-dont-care.

And a short extract...

I really don't care about web standards. There I said it. I feel slightly guilty and ashamed about this but I'm rather hoping that there are plenty of people out there who feel the same way. We could form a support group, meet every Tuesday night, stand up and announce it; "My name is James and I am a web standards anarchist".

Read the rest at swn.gg

Development of a logo for briefus.com

2008-08-01T14:46:59Z

It is times like this which I had an expert typographer at hand.

Instead I have to make do with trial and error and the mixed opinion of my friends and colleagues - which is always a rather ugly and unpleasant business.

Landing page optimization certification

2008-07-30T07:50:57Z

Landing page optimization is the process of honing the pages your visitors land on to achieve a particular objective - this could be buy something, read an article or give you some data. I've just completed a fantastic course from Marketing Experiements covering this topic - very good material, well presented and the weather was great out in Florida.

They have given me this lovely seal to display on my site.

Jeffxcalibur, a bizarre cartoon that only my friends will understand

2008-07-25T11:06:29Z

I was looking through some old files and stumbled upon an old cartoon I wrote, I can't imagine anyone finding these interesting apart from those people actually in the cartoons - but you never know.

briefus.com finalist in Bright Young Things 2008

2008-05-15T15:59:48Z

Despite the project still being in the early stages of development I managed to get to the final of Schroders sponsored Bright Young Things

Guernplan game 10 has ended

2008-01-25T10:15:03Z

A good game, I'm sure everyone will agree. Featured the fascists taking an early lead while early combat raged between the birds, fascists, feds and robots. A strike from the empire saw the rebels homeworld fall, as well as the feds losing a base to the robots. Unfortunately after this early fighting three players left the game leaving the empire, robots and rebels to combat each other and the dominate cplayer.

Go and check the record of game 10.

debtbusterloans.com gets AJAX

2007-12-03T17:25:47Z

We've finally had a break-through with our largest website - with my addition of AJAX validation and automatic searching for addresses we have improved the CTE by about 30%.

Take a look new site design.

5 steps to get you started with rails migrations

2007-08-21T21:34:11Z

Rails migrations are brilliant. I say this because until now I had heard of them, seen articles about them and like poor misguided VB programmers I had completely ignored them. They make loads of potentially tricky database migration, rollback and versioning issues a doddle but mainly (from my point of view) they mean I can develop more in ruby and less in SQL. This makes my development faster, easier and more standardised which in turn makes my life simpler, calmer and more fun - everybody wins. Honestly they do.

XBOX Customer Service?

2007-07-19T10:57:46Z

Well the courier has finally taken my red-rings-of-death XBOX 360 away. The machine itself broke just before Christmas - that's Christmas 2006! After more than 10 phone calls to support there have been at least 8 failed attempts to send me box labels by email and two failed attempts to send them by regular post. I'll wait with baited breath to see if the b@stard machine ever turns up again. Fingers crossed.

MYSTERY BOX - ebaying for charity!

2007-07-12T23:21:49Z

I've entered a charity event somebody at work is running and in a bid to get the highest priced ebay item I'm shamelessly linking to my site everywhere I can.

It's a charity event raising funds for the NSPCC! The aim is to sell a £5 item from a charity shop on ebay - to make even more money for charity. This item is a Mystery Box the content of which will only be revealed to the winning bidder! Good luck!