One of the highlights of SuperBowl weekend, after the football, is the commercials.
Here’s a few of my favourites form this year…
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One of the highlights of SuperBowl weekend, after the football, is the commercials.
Here’s a few of my favourites form this year…
Spending a sunny day strolling round Oxford being a tourist for a change…
Found this great CSS Gradient Animator tool by Ian Forrest for creating animated CSS gradient backgrounds – a simple but greatly effective idea, it subtly adds a dynamic feel to a website using very few lines of code. Continue reading “CSS Gradient Animator”
First bit of new functionality work i’ve done in ModX for a longtime and I came unstuck by not being able to create any new template variables, due the the fact that ModX thought I had invalid characters in the variable title. Continue reading “ModX: Invalid Characters in a TV Name”
I was asked to write a few words for the company blog about web trends for 2015, here’s what i came up with: Continue reading “Which Web Trends Are Worth Talking About?”
I came across this fascinating article on Nautilus about photographer Adam Magyar – who film seconds worth of footage and slows it right down to stunning effect. Continue reading “Super Slow Motion Video: Adam Magyar”
Google’s very own captcha tool ‘reCAPTCHA‘ has been launched and looks like it will make a lot of users lives much easy when it comes to data capture.
Not only is it a much nicer visual experience for the user, it also speeds up data entry – as in a large number of cases it will be as simple as ticking a box to say you are not a robot to complete the form, and is mobile friendly too. Continue reading “Google reCaptcha”
Just before Christmas I took a short holiday over in Iceland – something of an experience seen as it is the coldest country I’ve ever visited, and as we were there during the shortest day of the year, it meant we only had little over 3 and a half hours between sunrise and sunset. Continue reading “Off Topic: Iceland, December 2014”
Doing a new project that involves technology that various versions of IE can’t handle and I stumbled upon this great function on StackOverflow for detecting IE that works right up to IE11. Continue reading “Code: Detect IE”
Saw this great use of CSS hover effects combined with Javascript direction detection to create this brilliant direction aware hover effect. Continue reading “Code: Direction Aware Hover Effect”