Sitting is Killing you
There is a constant stream of inforgraphics about the web. Some are informative, some are even amusing, others take complex data and make it readily digestible. This one, however, has freaked me out big time. For a web developer who spends the vast majority of his life sitting this has the potential to be very serious.
Coding / Project Management
Email CMS & Template Parser class
A recent project required automated messaging functionality. Initially this struck me as another one of those email related time sinks that was just going to wreck my best laid development schedule plans. However, with a little forethought and a core CI library this wasn't the case, resulting in an effective solution the client can now manage themselves.
Landing the project jumbo
Having had the opportunity to experience long haul travel I appreciate a soft landing. In light of the vast combination of inputs, processes, factor management and skill that goes into landing a jumbo jet my appreciation increases to high respect. Also the regularly which this occurs in modern air travel is thankfully extremely high. Unfortunately this is not something that can always be said for project management, with many projects arriving late, crash landing or never making it to there final destination at all.
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The Fine Gael web connection point
With much fan fare and rhetoric the main opposition party in Irish politics, Fine Gael, recently substituted its usual web presence for 'the biggest consultation exercise to date with the Irish electorate'. High minded intention but through the eyes of a web professional how much merit is there in their initiative, its implementation and, perhaps, what this means for the near future impact political policy will have on the digital industries.
#24theweb – Lessons learned
24 The Web was a 24 hour web design challenge, where each of the 3 teams of 7 people aim to build website for a charity in 24 hours. Its' purpose was to highlight the importance of design, standards, content and process in developing a site, in a fun and challenging way. The event took place from 12pm Nov 13th - 12pm Nov 14th. Now that I have had a chance to catch up on sleep and mentally digest what happened I offer the following as lessons learned from my participation.
Combat Website Obesity
As the worlds population continues to grow it is the collective weight of our worlds population that is most alarming. Equally affecting people from many different countries, ethnic descent and cultural backgrounds it is an issue that is spiraling out of control. Subsequently obesity is increasingly being mentioned in the same sentence as epidemic. Similarly websites are becoming increasingly obese - the comparison has several strong similarities.
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