SXSW 2011 Review
I had the pleasure of spending March 11th-15th in Austin, Texas for SXSW Interactive, (possibly/probably) the world’s largest gathering of geeks, techies, designers, developers, startups, CEOs, investors and “social media…
Omnigraffle first impressions
Omnigraffle is a Mac application that I’ve heard other designers mention but have never tried myself. Recently I decided to take the plunge and see what all the fuss was…
I’m heading to SXSW 2011
March 11th-15th I’ll be hitting this year’s SXSW Interactive conference in Austin, Texas. Thanks to the support from Invest NI and Digital Circle, I’ll be heading out with a team…
How to get your website’s rich snippets displayed on Google search results
Two years ago when we launched Lookaly, a local review website for Northern Ireland, we included microformats that would tell the “Google bots” some useful information about the reviews we…
How to deploy your Rails app with Capistrano (to Dreamhost)
I’ve been doing a bit of Rails development recently. I’ve actually been doing what I would call ‘basic’ Rails development for a couple of years now on and off. However,…
Updated Northern Ireland’s Twitter directory
I decided it was time to tidy up the design of TweetNI. When I started doing that I decided it was time to tidy up the ruby code behind the…
How to get MySQL, Ruby, RVM and Rails working on Snow Leopard
For over a year now I refused to upgrade from Leopard to Snow Leopard on Mac OSX. I knew it wouldn’t be a simple straight forward procedure. So this past…
Goals for 2011
It’s that time of year again. I’ve put together some goals to help me focus on achieving them this year.
10 iPhone apps from Northern Ireland you should check out
I’ve been spending a bit of time recently designing an iPhone app and as a result I’ve installed quite a lot of apps on my own iPhone for research. One…
A quick intro into CSS3 gradients
CSS3 gradients are available to use in Webkit (Safari, Chrome) and Mozilla (Firefox) browsers. They’re not exactly new but I only recently started using them consistently myself so I’ve put…