The Multipack describes itself as “a community of multi-talented Web professionals from across the West Midlands” and attending one of their meetings has been high on my list for over a year now. This Saturday I finally made the effort to get to Birmingham for best price cialis the March meeting and it was definitely [...]
I was in Bristol for a few days earlier this week for Skillswap (which my company sponsored) and the UWE Web Developer Conference; both were excellent events so kudos to Laura and Dan & team respectively. Being at these events and rubbing shoulders with lots of smart people that are passionate about their particular corner [...]
Web geekery: The Standardista Rebels have established a secret base on the remote domain of squidoo.com. The Dark Lord of the Kludge, Darth Gates has sent web crawlers in search of this base and its commander, Luke Veloso. While Luke is out browsing around the base, he is locked up and his browser is crashed [...]
I came across JigsawUK just now after following a link from The Multipack's blog. According to their front page it is: …a wiki for young British digital media companies and organisations to: * Showcase new Internet and mobile projects * Advertise digital media jobs * Announce
I can’t be arsed with RSS feeds; they are too high maintenance and I just don’t have the time to read them any more, especially so since I became a freelance web developer again and all my time is spent working or trying to get work. I thought the Google Reader might work for me [...]
I've only been living in the midlands for a few months now but have already found two promising groups: The Multi Pack and PHP West Midlands. Multipack seems to be a bit more designery but they are organised, have a great website and put on meet-ups. It seems that some of the organisers are also [...]
Well we've unpacked all of our boxes (apart from all of the ones in my office it seems), put as many again in the loft and all members of family Beale are settling nicely into our new life. I'm particularly liking the ability to have breakfast, lunch and dinner with the kids especially owing to [...]
I stumbled across the beta Google reader just now and it looks really good. If you, like me, don't subscribe to loads of RSS feeds because you always have too many other apps open and already don't have enough hours in the day then maybe Google Reader is for you too. Here's how they describe [...]
I've been playing with my Firefox extensions this morning as I recently re-installed windows at home and wanted to make sure that it had all of the essentials that I use at work. So this led me to 'waste' 15 mins browsing the Extensions repository and I came up with a real find, Performancing: Performancing [...]
After getting over 200 comment spams in 2 days I decided to implement an automatic spam blacklist system as manual parsing wasn't cutting it any more. Akismet seems good: We can’t stand spam. Who can? You have better things to do with your discount cialis life than deal with the underbelly of the internet. Automattic [...]