Blog Post November 2009

While giving my site a facelift (which isn't quite finished yet I know) I thought I would have a little play with CSS3 to see what could be done and I have to say I am impressed and frustrated in equal measure at the moment.

No its not a new, clever design technique or web fad, just the subject of my latest piece of graphic design. I got to flex my creative muscles over the weekend and thoroughly enjoyed it!

My little A150 was a great buy when I picked it up a few months back, £150 from Currys Digital as it was an ex display model - which would probably explain the fact that the fan needed to be replaced! Every time I turned it on the noise was ridiculous, I had to turn it on and off in the hope that next time I started it up it would be quiet.

A few months back I decided I would write a module that handled the uploading and display of Unity3D players to Drupal based sites. I must admit I haven't spent long on this since I came up against some pretty tricky file upload issues, on top of that I have been attempting to buy a flat for what seems like forever, so development on this has come to a bit of a stand still.

I love jQuery, it's an amazingly powerful tool but there is one thing that always infuriates me whenever I come to installing a new plugin - inline styles!

Yesterday I spent the day adding a Simple Gallery photo gallery to a clients site. All went surprisingly well considering the site and the gallery was plugged in successfully, the last thing I had to fix was the fact that all the images appeared to be left aligned and I wanted them centered to avoid a nasty black border.

A few weeks back I published a blog post about updating a MAMP installation. It actually proved to be very popular to I thought I would follow it up with a quick run through of getting virtual hosts up and running on MAMP without the need to purchase MAMP Pro. I don't have anything against MAMP Pro, this is just a free way of doing it for users who are prepared to get their hands a little more dirty than others.

After years of switching from platform to platform and language to language, I am starting to make very good progress on my media cataloging application. A brief history....