One of the things I enjoy doing that isn’t web related is illustration, and last week I was asked to create a set of illustrations and a book prop for Patrick’s short-film, The Christmas Bunny. The film was shot this weekend past, and is in the editing stages, but I thought I’d share some [...]
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Writer’s block and Project52
February 4, 2010 – 11:50 am
This year, I thought it might be fun to try taking part in something that would get me writing more. Anton Peck started Project52 with a simple aim to produce a blog post a week for all of 2010.
It’s hard. Really hard.
It’s week 5 and although I generally suffer various [...]
A brief word on homeopathy
January 28, 2010 – 11:24 am
I’m generally completely non-plussed about petitions and marches and all that freedom of speech type gubbins that angry people get involved with all too easily. I think you should pick your battles and save up your bile and wit for when it really counts. But there’s something about the 1023 campaign that really strikes [...]
Cold-calls and Madison Maclean recruitment
January 19, 2010 – 10:44 am
I think it’s a fairly well agreed statement to say that recruitment agents aren’t particularly nice to deal with. Especially when they’re cold-calling you at your place of work with jobs you’re not interested in. I will just say that I have worked with 1 nice agent, who got me the interview for [...]
JavaScript speed testing tutorial with Woosh
January 12, 2010 – 3:05 pm
Friend and colleague, Jake Archibald, has been developing Woosh, which is a JavaScript speed testing framework. Essentially, it’s been developed for Glow because we want to make sure that Glow 2 kicks Glow 1’s ass (and any else who fancies a piece), but he’s open-sourced the work to let everyone benefit from it.
I thought [...]
Film and Lit 2009
January 2, 2010 – 1:40 pm
As with last year, I kept a list of cinema visits for the year.
Films (at the cinema, in seen order):
The Spirit
New Shorts: Funny Shit
Zack and Miri Make a Porno
Slumdog Millionaire
Frost/Nixon
Better Things
Revolutionary Road
Hansel and Gretel
Los Cronocrímenes (Timecrimes)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Üç Maymun (Three Monkeys)
Role Models
Tokyo Sonata
Gran Torino
Surveillance
Franklyn
Flame & Citron
Watchmen
The International
Bronson
In The City of Sylvia
The Boat [...]
Github and QUnit
December 18, 2009 – 11:00 am
This year, Glow switched over to using Github as it’s code repository when it went open source to make collaboration easier. To be honest, getting used to git and github in general has been somewhat of an uphill battle for the team, but we’ve really found it’s come into it’s own recently now that [...]