24 November 2007
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Apple MacBook Pro Review

I’ve been in a different part of the office for the last week working for the first time on a MacBook Pro. It’s the first time I’ve had to really work on a Mac for a number of years – since University in fact. I do own a Candy Mac G3 desktop which is fun [...]


20 November 2007
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Firefox 3 Beta First Look

Just spied on Digg that there’s a new official version of Firefox out (Firefox 3 Beta). Get Firefox 3 Beta Here are a few of my first impressions and some issues I’ve found. The tab scrolling is nice and smooth with some acceleration When you open multiple tabs in Firefox 2.x you could quickly jump [...]


20 November 2007
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My Life
Web Design
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Moo Cards Just Arrived

Ordered some Moo Cards a few weeks ago in the vain hope that I’d have something to hand out at BarCamp Leeds. However, it seems that most people got there before me which kind of killed the exclusive first find of them as I thought I was being totally original in finding a new product [...]


18 November 2007
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Barcamp Leeds 2007 – My SEO Talk

I was really nervous about yesterdays Barcamp in Leeds as I’d been called out by The Hodge after slating his SEO presentation at a previous GeekUp and asked to co-present an SEO critique session with him. In addition it wasnt until around 8:30 yesterday morning that i realised that the event was an all day [...]


15 November 2007
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Designing for GWT (Google Web Toolkit)… in a word, DONT!

The new web development team here at Xrio are mad keen on GWT as a development platform and as someone who’s only ever worked in .NET and ASP and based on the hype I can see why. The only problem is that until I came along they never had to really bother about making an [...]