Wednesday 10th of March 2010

US TV – Season Premier Air Dates 2010

It’s pretty much over for most most of the shows from 2009 Season. Here is what to expect in 2010

Heroes Season 4 returns on 4th January 2010
Smallville Season 9 continues on 22nd January 2010
Burn Notice Season 3 returns on 28th January 2010
Lost Season 6 air date is 2nd Feb 2010
Flashfoward Season 1 continues on 5th March 2010
Dexter Season [...]

Recommendations, Endorsements, Referees – Do they help when looking for a job?

Having recently written a LinkedIn endorsement request for my colleague Nic Bell, I wondered whether they were actually useful when looking for a new role. I am quite active on LinkedIn myself and often notice many people recommending their colleagues/friends/family, sometimes very generous and some very brief and usually the favour is returned.
How important do [...]

Access IT Web 2.0 Winner – Accessible Twitter

Accessible Twitter is an alternative to the Twitter.com website. It is designed to be easier to use and is optimized for disabled users.
Firstly a huge well done to Accessible Twitter on winning the Web 2.0 ACCESS IT Award at a ceremony held at Microsoft London. I accepted the award on behalf of my Twitter friend [...]

Ministry of Defence

Website: defencedynamics.mod.uk
When I first heard about this project, 2 things sprung to mind:
1. Govenment related project – must be AA accessible
2. Educational project – must be AA accessible
So either way it was essential that Defence Dynamics was AA accessible and I had to make sure I had enough time to do all the XHTML and [...]

US TV – Season Premier Air Dates 2009

For 2010 scheduled dates visit: US TV – Season Premier Air Dates 2009
Update: UK air date for Heroes Volume 4 – Redemption confirmed for end of this year or early 2010 on BBC. Not sure why there is a longer delay this time.

For myself and all those other fans out there who (sadly) download episodes [...]

Mobile Browsing – Add phone number to your contacts

Since every other mobile phone on the market seems to be a smart phone/mobile computer here’s a great tip for adding a phone number to a webpage to allow mobile browser to call/add to address book.
It makes perfect sense for web designers/front end devs to add some extra code in their markup to enable [...]

HTML5 Website – Cockpit Arts

With all the HTML 5 release excitement I really wanted to jump straight into it and get my hands dirty, thankfully I had that opportunity at ID Media London, a Digital Communications Agency I work for as an Interface Architect. The project is a campaign-based micro-site for Cockpit Arts – Makerdifference – A great yet [...]

Smoothie Recipes Part I

Here’s a sample collection of Smoothie Recipes I’ve been trying out – They’re all great and refreshing!
Smoothie Recipes I – PDF Donwload
Banana, Strawberry and Pineapple Smoothie
(serves 2)
Ingredients
Approx 12 strawberries
1 whole banana
1/2 can of pineapples (or 1 whole fresh pineapple if you prefer more)
Method
Dice strawberries (keeping just one aside), then cut banana into 4 pieces. Next [...]

Firefox 3 Only CSS Hack

Firefox 3 has been troublesome recently, especially since we are now testing for IE6,7 and 8 as well. I managed to find a Firefox 3 only hack to help with those sticky situations:
html>/**/body .TEST, x:-moz-any-link, x:default { }
Works like dream!