Muffin Research Labs

SXSW

Notes: How to Make the Most of Maps

The following are my panel notes from SXSW. As I am not the fastest typer I have paraphrased what was said. Should you notice any mistakes please do point them out in the comments for corrections. * Daniel Catt - Works at Flickr [http://2006.sxsw.com/interactive/programming/panels/?action=

SXSW

Notes: Sink or Swim. The Five Most Important Start-up Decisions

The following are my panel notes from SXSW. As I am not the fastest typer I have paraphrased what was said. Should you notice any mistakes please do point them out in the comments for corrections. * Evan Williams CEO, Odeo, Inc. [http://www.odeo.com/] * Joshua Schachter Creator of del.

SXSW

Notes: Tantek Çelik Presentation: Creating Building Blocks for Independents

The following are my panel notes from SXSW. As I am not the fastest typer I have paraphrased what was said. Should you notice any mistakes please do point them out in the comments for corrections. Tantek Çelik [http://tantek.com] Chief Technologist, Technorati [http://technorati.com] Creative Commons Attributions

SXSW

Notes: How to Bluff Your Way in DOM Scripting

The following are my panel notes from SXSW. As I am not the fastest typer I have paraphrased what was said. Should you notice any mistakes please do point them out in the comments for corrections. Jeremy Keith [http://adactio.com/] and Aaron Gustafson [http://www.easy-reader.net] DOM scripting

SXSW

Notes: How to Be A Web Design Superhero

The following are my panel notes from SXSW. As I am not the fastest typer I have paraphrased what was said. Should you notice any mistakes please do point them out in the comments for corrections. Andy Clarke [http://www.stuffandnonsense.co.uk] and Andy Budd [http://www.andybudd.com]

SXSW

Notes: Traditional Design and New Technology

The following are my panel notes from SXSW. As I am not the fastest typer I have paraphrased what was said. Should you notice any mistakes please do point them out in the comments for corrections. Traditional design = print. Discussion based on aesthetics. * Liz Danzico [http://www.bobulate.com/] * Mark

Events

The first couple of days in Austin

I left the house at 0600 on Thursday and about eighteen hours later arrived in Austin. I flew with Delta Airlines and I was fairly impressed with the hospitality. I guess I'm far too used to travelling with EasyJet on the cheap! When I got to Atlanta I

Wordpress

Moving to WordPress

Not so long ago I posted that I would be moving to TextPattern from my custom-made blogging system. As a result of that post there were a few interesting comments suggesting I take a look at all of the possibilities before I jumped into moving across to TextPattern. After some

Google

Google Acquires Measuremap

Yet another aquisition, Google has snapped up MeasureMap [http://measuremap.com/]. For those of you that don't already know Measure Map is a web based stats package which is aimed at bloggers. It specifically tracks how much attention your blog is getting in terms of vistors, links and

Yahoo! launches UI library and Design Patterns

Yahoo! have released (under a BSD licence [http://developer.yahoo.net/yui/license.txt]) a user interface library [http://developer.yahoo.net/yui/] along with an accompanying set of design patterns. The library contains several utilities including Yahoo!'s own event handling and Ajax connection scripts. These helpers are

Events

The Future of Web Apps Summit Roundup

Yesterday I went to the Carson Web Apps Summit [http://carsonworkshops.com/summit/] at the Kensington Conference Centre in London. As before at d.Construct there was a collaborative note-taking session [https://muffinresearch.co.uk/lab/summit/06/] using subEthaEdit [http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/]. Once again Steve Marshall [http:

CSS

CSS Drop Column Layout

Simon Collison posted an article about his new fixed width 3-column layout which is made possible with a dash of javascript to alter the layout based on the resolution of the client's window. For more on Simon's layout see this post [http://www.collylogic.com/?/comments/

CSS

Partial Image Replacement

Recently Tim [http://www.nefariousdesigns.co.uk] was looking for opinions on the most semantic way to mark up the title and strapline of an author's website that he is working on. The text looked something like this; Stuart Colville, Author of "I'm a big

London Geek Dinner with Dave Shea

I really enjoyed the Geek Dinner [http://www.geekdinner.co.uk] in London last night. Guest of honour was Dave Shea [http://www.mezzoblue.com] who has been over here recently speaking at a Carson workshop [http://www.carsonworkshops.com/design-dev/shea/19JAN2006.html]. It was good to met up

Browsers

Opera Mini Launched

Opera Mini [http://mini.opera.com] has been launched worldwide earlier on today. I've been using Opera mobile [http://www.opera.com/products/mobile/] for a while on my Nokia 6600 and it's so much better than the Nokia's built in browser. To test

Tech

Google Earth For Mac

Google have launched a version of Google Earth for mac. Apparently this version wipes the floor with the leaked version in terms of performance. If you were waiting to get a bit of Google earth goodness for your mac then now's the time. Download Google Earth [http://earth.

Web Standards

Web Standards Survival Handbook Part One

When I started my current job, Rentokil's web development team were producing non-semantic, part table-based, with a mixture of CSS with in-line styling and font tags. As I had not been there long I didn't want to be too pushy about my own ideas so I

Apple

Intel Macs Unleashed

I stayed up late last night watching the keynote [http://macworld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/mw/index.html] to find out all of the juicy details about Apple's latest announcements: I like the idea of the new FM radio remote [http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/

Web 2.0 data recovery

If you think about the growth of web 2.0 applications and think about how you yourself are using these tools from day to day you begin to realise that we are trusting a lot of data to these services. With every new service we sign up with we are

Events

@media2006

@media2006 [http://www.vivabit.com/atmedia2006/] has been announced together with a rather tasty new website [http://www.vivabit.com/atmedia2006/] with all the details. I was at @media2005 last year and I found it to be a really inspiring event. This year (provided I get my act together in

2005

Christmas in Portugal and Happy New Year

We returned from Portugal on Boxing day after a pretty mad 10 days seeing Sandra's parents and family in Moura, Baixo Alentejo [http://tinyurl.com/dfu72]. The flight was about 3 hours long and we landed in Faro [http://tinyurl.com/cr3st] at 10 o'clock. The

2005

Review of 2005

2005 has been a great year. In April I spent a lot of time redesigning my blog for the May 1st CSS reboot [http://www.cssreboot.com/]. It was great to have the motivation to do something different with my site though in the end the whole thing ended up

Thunderbird

Expectations for Thunderbird 1.5

Ok so now everyone's probably settled in with Firefox 1.5 [http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/] it's probably time to start looking forward to the 1.5 release of Thunderbird [http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/]. Now I really like Thunderbird; I use it as

9rules

Muffin Research Labs Joins 9Rules

I am pleased to announce that Muffin Research Labs has joined the 9rules network [http://9rules.com]. I'm totally chuffed to be joining a network with sites such as Roger Johansson [http://www.456bereastreet.com], Molly E Holzschlag [http://www.molly.com], Particle Tree [http://www.particletree.com]

CSS

Beyond the graphical

Unless you've had your head firmly buried in the sand you are probably aware of the various CSS showcase sites on the internet. However, if you take a closer look at some of the sites featured on these showcases, you'll see that some of them fall