HumansAndTech

Vale SOX? Obligatory Sarbanes-Oxley Mention


I cant let the current credit crunch / financial crisis / Wall St meltdown pass without mentioning the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, aka SOX.
I feel compelled to do so because I havent seen it mentione ....... read more
Thu,
02 Oct 2008
An OpenSocial Sketch

My fellow Osmosoftie Paul Downey made this bodacious sketch when I ran through my @Media Ajax presentation on OpenSketch:
If you havent seen his handiwork before, he has a great talent for this di ....... read more
Sun,
28 Sep 2008
The official olympics medal tally is broken. Let’s fix it.

This is how the official olympics medal tally looks:
Its not only the official tally, but the one linked from google each time you type olympics and terms like australia olympics. Thus making ....... read more
Mon,
18 Aug 2008
A Contact Form

I recently got fed up of spam. Well, that happened a long time ago. What bothered me recently, enough to take action, was false positives, i.e. real email that fell into my spam folder. My primary ema ....... read more
Tue,
15 Jul 2008
A Video Sharing Website based on Web 2.0 Patterns

Weve done a little group exercise at the TOOLS web 2.0 patterns workshop. Designing a video website, with heavy emphasis on mashing up, e.g. show videos from youtube, grab recommendations from netfli ....... read more
Tue,
01 Jul 2008
Visualising version history

Im a redundancy fanboy. In visualisation, different formats suit different personalities and different tasks. With version control, the usual format is just a text log. This is good if youre scannin ....... read more
Thu,
19 Jun 2008
Dogfooding considered solipsistic


Jeff Attwood encourages developers to eat their own dogfood:
Ive found that much of the best software is the best because the programmers are the users, too. It is UsWare.
It behooves softw ....... read more
Tue,
04 Mar 2008
BlingText and Banner

Ajax, AjaxPatterns
As foretweeted last week, I created a little Ajax app called BlingText.
As you can see, it takes a message and provides some ASCII renderings. In particular, it includes a po ....... read more
Tue,
12 Feb 2008