Five Years of Quiet Revolution

Nice people sometimes ask where the videos of my talks are. Well, most of my presentations have not been recorded, were screwed up during recording, are being sat on by the organisers, or were recorded in the dark without a mic. Thus, I’m especially pleased that our …

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EECI2009 round-up & link-fest

I can’t wait any longer. It has taken me over a week to collate all that follows, with videos, slides, images and reports still appearing day by day. I’m channeling my enthusiasm and pooling almost everything from the last two weeks into this post for your pleasure. …

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EECI2009 round-up & link-fest

I can’t wait any longer. It has taken me over a week to collate all that follows, with videos, slides, images and reports still appearing day by day. I’m channeling my enthusiasm and pooling almost everything from the last two weeks into this post for your pleasure. …

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CSS Mastery Second Edition

In early 2006, a book called CSS Mastery was published. Written expertly by Andy, it also featured case studies from Cameron and myself, plus a foreword from Dan. The book sold like hot cakes and became the best-selling Apress/Friends Of ED title ever. Now, we’re all …

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Geek In The Park

The almost-annual Geek In The Park get-together takes place this Saturday (15th August) in Leamington Spa. I will be hammering on about Nailing Your Own Projects, and Remy will be probing HTML5 and Friends. If you can make it, we’d all love to see you, even if - like …

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The Process Toolbox: a nine-part epic

A few weeks ago, whilst summing up @Media 2009 I pledged that I’d try and get a transcript of my presentation onto the interwebs in some form or other. Well, I did just that, although I got a bit carried away, turning it into a nine-part series over at Erskine Labs. …

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Starting from the beginning…

Last week I was invited to do a video interview with Ryan for his please start from the beginning series.

Its around 40 minutes or so of me being very honest, occasionally hiding behind my massive Batman mug. Do check out Ryan’s interviews and the one with my …

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Starting from the beginning…

Last week I was invited to do a video interview with Ryan for his please start from the beginning series.

Its around 40 minutes or so of me being very honest, occasionally hiding behind my massive Batman mug. Do check out Ryan’s interviews and the one with my …

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@Media2009: The Process Toolbox

Yesterday I was very fortunate to speak at @Media 2009 alongside Andy Clarke, Jon Hicks, Dan Rubin, Mark Boulton and Jason Santa Maria. It was quite a few days. Here’s a summary - a bit rushed as I’m somewhat knackered.

I’ve spoken at @Media before, but this …

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@Media2009: The Process Toolbox

Yesterday I was very fortunate to speak at @Media 2009 alongside Andy Clarke, Jon Hicks, Dan Rubin, Mark Boulton and Jason Santa Maria. It was quite a few days. Here’s a summary - a bit rushed as I’m somewhat knackered.

I’ve spoken at @Media before, but this …

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ExpressionEngine & CodeIgniter Conference

The Netherlands (Leiden specifically) will be like some sort of EE honeypot on 22nd and 23rd October 2009, for the inaugural ExpressionEngine & CodeIgniter Conference (EECI2009). Here’s a bit more detail…

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Future Of Web Design Tour

Its turning into a busy speaking year. As well as a few business and university talks, I recently presented as part of the Future Of Web Apps Tour, which went down a treat. I’ve got @Media coming up in a couple of weeks, and something special in October (more soon). …

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Future Of Web Design Tour

Its turning into a busy speaking year. As well as a few business and university talks, I recently presented as part of the Future Of Web Apps Tour, which went down a treat. I’ve got @Media coming up in a couple of weeks, and something special in October (more soon). …

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Our blogging laboratory

A week or so back, shortly after bringing Erskine Socials into the world, we quietly (finally) launched our shared blog, named Erskine Labs. As I explain in the introductory post…

Labs will become a sandbox in which to build castles out of our ideas. It is a brain …

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Dad’s tree

On an eerily foggy day in May, we laid my Dad to rest at the head of the Hope Valley. Just myself, my Mam, and a lone crow that arrived at the beginning, stayed throughout, then left as we did.

From the passage I wrote for the scattering…

Dad, you end up with …

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Four days in remote Wasdale

I’m reaching the end of a wonderful week off, which included a five-hour drive to remote Wasdale in the Lake District, two full days of trekking and scrambling, and a return journey of over eight-hours through three national parks. And all of that under sun-kissed …

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EE Shortener plugin: Your own short URLs using rev=canonical and permanent redirects

I’m now providing my own short URLs for all posts on this here blog (you’ll see one just above the title), essentially divorcing myself from all those third-party link shortening services. This post briefly describes the problem, and provides an EE plugin to enable …

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Spaceship Sex with Leonard Cohen?

I had decided not to write about the Watchmen movie, partly because I’m the kind of Watchmen fan that many of you will dislike, in that I only read the original comics a few months ago. Does that mean I love the story any less than you? Maybe. Maybe not. I don’t …

One more hero…

My esteemed colleagues Glen and Greg have publicly outlined the plans for their first (of many) epic cycle journeys.

Route no.1 is a pedal-based fiasco bookended by Nottingham and Paris. You can find out more at the lovely new One More Hero website, should you feel …

Future Of Web Apps Tour

Extra bit of speaking news. I’ll be presenting Knowing Your Audience on the Leeds leg of the freshly-announced Future Of Web Apps Tour, landing in Yorkshire on 28th May 2009. The tour also takes in Edinburgh, Bristol and Cambridge. Hoping I genuinely get picked up in …