- SXSW 2011 Review - Mar 2011I 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 - Mar 2011Omnigraffle 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 - Mar 2011March 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 - Feb 2011Two 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) - Jan 2011I’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 - Jan 2011I 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 - Jan 2011For 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 - Jan 2011It’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 - Nov 2010I’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 - Oct 2010CSS3 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...