16 Aug 2014
Are you sitting comfortably? … I hope that you won’t be for long. At the start of the year I decided to make a concerted effort to work in a more health conscious manner. No gym promises, or exercise targets, my plan was to aim low, and to endeavour to form some small habitual improvements(…)
6 Jul 2014
A current pet project runs on IIS, and having found too many restrictions with the IIS instance on my shared hosting accounts I needed to look for alternatives. Digital Ocean and Linode are great reasonably priced VPS services, but Linux only, and this project doesn’t yet warrant the cost of getting a dedicated box somewhere.(…)
19 May 2014
Following on from yesterday’s Practical Responsive Images post, the next example use of the < picture > element (and using PicturefIll), is to apply a point-of-interest crop to an image to maintain the desired focus at different breakpoints. Demo : http://responsiveimag.es/picturefill2_cropApples.html In this example, I’m apply different at-request-time crops depending at different min-width’s, with html scaling(…)
17 May 2014
Thanks to the work of the Responsive Images Community Group and key supporters, the industry is gaining considerable momentum towards implementing the <picture> element and the srcset attribute. Both of these could finally offer a standard solution to the gnarly problem of providing a mature and consistent approach to implementing images effectively, especially within Responsive(…)
13 May 2014
My Android Tablet is NOT ROOTED, but I needed to capture some video of the screen footage from my son’s Pocket Minecraft based project. The Google Play store appears to have stacks of apps which will capture video of the screen with one button press, but due to an Android platform restriction, at this time(…)
26 Apr 2014
I’m really looking forward to be talking at Qubit Bright Sparks this coming Tuesday (29th April, at Sketch, London). It’s a fantastic line-up to be a part of, and I’ll be doing a “10 minute power talk” about Customer Experience Tips including some recent learnings from some great eCommerce client projects. Main topics I’ll be rapidly(…)
22 Apr 2014
I’m really thrilled that my Responsive Images flow is currently being featured on Gibbon.co https://gibbon.co/bseymour/responsive-images With some great progress now being made to the formalisation of the Responsive Images support in modern browsers, I’m pulling together a core of useful web resources around Responsive Images solutions. Gibbon is a really promising new community of people(…)
4 Apr 2014
The Hook lighthouse on the south coast of County Wexford, Ireland is the oldest operating lighthouse in the world. There has been a beacon in this location since the 5th century, with the current structure being built in the 12th century, which has now operated continuously for a staggering 800 years. This medieval tower was(…)
31 Mar 2014
During our anniversary trip back to Ireland we went back to Waterford Crystal. After the initial confusion of us returning to the factory which they apparently shut down in 2009, we had a fantastic tour, and the kids loved it. It’s mesmerising watching hugely skilled individuals effortlessly go about their daily routine. In this case(…)
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30 Mar 2014
I moved to T-mobile nearly 2 years ago, and have been pretty happy with their service, and the plan that I chose. However, we are currently on a family trip outside of the UK, and upon arriving in Ireland I was greeted with a familiar text warning. For internet use outside of the UK please(…)