Finally arriving in Abergavenny after #fowd. Nearly home…
enjoyed #fowd today. some good talks, some not so good. but overall, not a bad day! time for a drink, then rush to the train home.
@simonianson thats the key - know your stuff and work the audience. #fowd
Looks like Molly’s talk on the future of web standards has saved the day here at #fowd
“It is what is implemented, not what is specified that becomes the true standard” - Molly #fowd
Enjoying the talk by Sanky from All of Us, even if it is more like the history of web design not the future of web design #fowd #howd
watching 13 years of web design styles at #fowd. hmm, sure i’ve seen some of these earlier ones recently somewhere… lol
@seanhandley which one did you accidentally buy?
Sat waiting for the next set of presentions & using one of the numerous and well placed charging points in the hall #fowd
@hrvaughan you might have appreciated this conference. lots of design related stuff.
RT: @simonianson A witty presentation let down by reading it from notes. Shame. #FOWD
back from lunch. now listening to a talk on the “Stalinist Web Design Model” #fowd
Lunchtime #fowd
RT @elamadej: TIP: Use Flash wisely or DON’T use it at all (I personally recommend the second option) #fowd #webaccessibility
RT @iworx: After the entire kill IE6 tirade, let’s all kill captcha’s. It sure looks like a steep hill for people with a disabilities #fowd
@charlie_elise it looks like the @applicake guys are here at #fowd
Pleased that Robin’s accessibility talk is having the same effect on people here as it did on me. #fowd
@iworx it is a crime under the DDA. just noone has sued anyone over it yet!
RT @pbarone: Robin Christopherson: mobile sites are easier to access for people with disabilities. I never realised that #fowd
Robin Christopherson showing off how much easier a mobile site is to view than a full version #fowd
I saw this talk at #fowadublin, but it it still amazes me. accessibility is so important. #fowd
looking forward to the accessibility talk from Robin Christopherson from AbilityNet #fowd
“Websites. Are. Dead” - @higoodbarry at #fowd
RT @yaili: Swine flu at #FOWD http://twitpic.com/49ivy
Looking forward to the launch of dribbble.com #fowd
Good practical talk on mobile web design from @meaganfisher #fowd
@mallmus i’ll look out for you
@mallmus somewhere near the back on the right hand side
RT @mallmus: Just seen a new web app Dribble from Megan Fisher, a visual Twitter with the tagline “What are you working on?” z#FOWD
Sat with @littlelaura at #fowd listing to @ryancarson’s introduction.
@higoodbarry there seems to be a lot of talk of cake & kimonos at #fowd, but the cafe seems to be lacking in cake!
just had a play with Microsoft Surface at #fowd. Pretty fun to play with.
Made it to #fowd in one piece. Turns out my hotel WAS only 5 minutes away & it wasn’t a google maps trick after all
Walking to #fowd. Just passed EMI music.
Heading to meet @akyan
Heading underground
@idesignstudios I.E. at the moment, I’m not taking on anything new till late June.
@idesignstudios when I’ve got enough work to last me a while, I pick a date in the future and don’t take on anything new till then
I never realised how crap the 3G coverage is on the Bristol -Reading stretch of the Great Western Main Line before.No signal most of the way
Just leaving Bristol Parkway on my way to #fowd in London.
@LittleLaura I’ve recently moved companies and it raised some issues which is partly why I wrote the article.
Designers and Developers: Who owns your portfolio? Comments needed - http://tinyurl.com/d5w6r8
@akyan Thats what I thought. The server is going to be managed by the hosting company, so we’re going with their preferred choice of CentOS.
@LittleLaura thanks for the comment!
FreeBSD, CentOS or Red Hat Enterprise for a dedicated sever hosting a well visited website.. advice anyone?
@ryancarson very much appreciated! see you at #fowd tomorrow :)
@ryancarson would you care to comment on this as a developer and a web company owner? - Who owns your portfolio? http://tinyurl.com/d5w6r8
@littlelaura thanks! have a good night & hopefully see you on Thursday!
@littlelaura I’d love your thoughts on my latest blog post - Who owns your portfolio? http://tinyurl.com/d5w6r8
New blog post: Who owns your portfolio? http://tinyurl.com/d5w6r8
@littlelaura I’ll look out for you!
@littlelaura i’m going to be at #fowd on Thursday
@Thiefree I’m afraid not - its been a few years since i’ve printed out any photos!
@Thiefree you used to be able to do that at Boots. I think their machines took SD & CF cards, USB stick and CD.
Pleased with progress on project today. Design is complete, RSS feeds and email subscriptions tomorrow before testing & push to staging
On the train heading home - absolutely packed today :-(
@darrenwaters not the best way of handling press requests is it?
Waiting for the rain to stop, then going to grab some lunch.
Developers: if you had access to our database of local government cllrs on twitter, what would you do with it? - http://tinyurl.com/cxe8st
Just replied to “Will councils mean the end for CllrTweeps?” - http://tinyurl.com/cxe8st
RT @pezholio: @davebriggs I can’t even begin to work out in my head what makes anti-phorm people ‘privacy pirates’
@LittleLaura fantastic! thanks :-)
@charlie_elise exactly. I was thinking about other examples of where ‘public’ things have done this - and NRE is perfect.
@pezholio also take a look at http://traintimes.org.uk.
@pezholio I like the fact that NRE point people towards their website as a free alternative. Poor accessibility, and dreadfully slow.
@Thiefree How are the zombie invasion prospects looking? Are there any houses in Cardiff safe enough to survive an attack?
RT @pezholio: From last week, but only just spotted it - Nation Rail Application angers customers http://is.gd/uakZ #iphone #opendata
RT @LittleLaura: Love it! rt @opera opera.com with a brand new 90’s design, hell yeah: http://www.opera.com
@jonhurlock its quite simple - certainly making my first proper venture into PHP easy!
@tobeon and then called it “The first ever”
@tobeon a website involving Twitter which already exists (and was built for free). a public org paid ~£3000 for their own version
Quite pleased with today’s progress. Spending all day tomorrow in photoshop mocking up designs
@charlie_elise care to elaborate?
Finally getting the hang of CodeIgniter and really liking it so far!
@charlie_elise if you insist - but i’d prefer normal coke!
@gavD_UK Its all part of the fun. Making calls to people I don’t know is a fear I’m finally starting to get over!
@frosty it may have scrapped plans for the database, but still intends to make comms companies store the data themselves
TBH, the government shouldn’t be funding stuff like this, and certainly shouldn’t be claiming credit for being the “first ever”. grr
I’m going to send an email to their feedback email address about (b).
@jamescousins ah, so an appropriate time to highlight recent events!
Astounded at the answer to an FOI request I put in- how the hell can they justify spending that much money on a service that already exists?
@charlie_elise err, nothing? Looks the same to me!
OK - spent a week away from Twitter, not quite sure how I managed it, but I’m back now. What did I miss?
URGENT: can anyone in Central Cardiff lend us an ADSL router for about an hour sometime today??
at RSA in London for 2 days of work on our first CF Labs project
@mallmus i’ll be there
giving up and heading home for the weekend. if i’m quick i can be out of the building by 5
its 4:45 on friday and the corporate services office is virtually empty (bar 3 of us)
RT @brian_condon #digitalbritain It’s a shame that too much of today has been about ‘why it can’t be done’ rather than ‘how it could be done
RT brian_condon #digitalbritain It’s a shame that too much of today has been about ‘why it can’t be done’ rather than ‘how it could be done’
BBC NEWS: Ian Tomlinson did not die of a heart attack at the G20 protests - http://bit.ly/17AGFY
This woman is really negative and quite clearly isn’t happy with the internet existing #digitalbritain
Sly Bailey (chief executive of Trinity Mirror) talking at #DigitalBritain
Antony Lilley actually talked some sense at #DigitalBritain fantastic! now someone talking about “Piracy Proof” Hulu :-(
half 1 already :-\ where did the morning go?! Time for lunch i think!
@frosty University of Southampton http://tinyurl.com/c9nmoj (via @charlie_elise)
@frosty swansea university (university of wales swansea) maybe?!
Following #digitalbritain on http://twitterfall.com
The Welsh ‘Ty Unnos’ (one night house) project to be shown at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington D.C. http://bit.ly/NN4a1
Lots to do today - need to finish off the CF Labs website template, and figure out how to finish off a screen scraper i’ve been writing.
@gimboland Its great isn’t it! My dad has been involved on the project.
@tobeon I’m not surprised we’ve been placed 16th (out of 16 countries) though
@tobeon in the interest of full disclosure, I work for Consumer Focus - however I didn’t know about this call until this morning
@Bash I know what you mean - as it stands, there is no way I am buying the National Rail app
@akyan I was going to send that to you when I had a spare moment, but never mind, you found it anyway!
@hrvaughan it doesn’t surprise me!
RT @akyan: Here, Here consumer focus. Change the crazy copyright laws: http://tinyurl.com/c9foeb
RT @pezholio: Anyone know if there’s a decent list of polling stations anywhere? (preferably xml or csv)
@pezholio An FOI request might be the only way to go - I can’t think of any sources for that Info
Thanks everyone for your messages yesterday :-) - for anyone who missed out: http://bit.ly/i9odH
RT @bbctech: The European Commission begins legal action over the way online advertising technology Phorm has be.. http://tinyurl.com/ck2yhh
@glitchkitty thanks :-D
@jamescousins thanks :-D
@jonhurlock thanks :-D
@timsculthorpe would you have expected anything less?! I think we were quite restrained - it could have been a social media extravaganza!
is engaged to @charlie_elise :-D
Back in Wales after our weekend in Cornwall.
@hrvaughan Taunton. Big traffic jams everywhere.
Visiting the not-quite-in-laws in Plymouth before heading to Newquay in the morning.
FYI if I’m in work and the zombies strike- I’ll be in Cardiff castle :-) #ignitecardiff
Had a good time at #ignitecardiff. Talked to quite a few people about @cflabs. Now waiting for the train home.
Need to head to Cardiff shortly for #IgniteCardiff
@akyan it was bound to happen!
Seesmic Desktop initial thoughts: like the multiple accounts handling, but no apparent facility to batch add users to groups :-/
Trying out Seesmic Desktop - http://desktop.seesmic.c…
RT @mikebutcher: Welcome to Twitter Mrs Brown, or should I say @SarahBrown10 http://is.gd/riRo
Pushed out a minor update to a client’s website, now off to bed.
@cllrmikeflower API stands for Application Programming Interface, in this case it means releasing the data in a reusable format such as XML
New blog post: A brief update http://tinyurl.com/dalxvu
RT @adrianshort: My petition to make £1m of new local government software open source. Please sign and RT. Thanks. http://bit.ly/861t2
@darrenwaters which founder is that?
@creattica I think thats FOWD London not FOWA London
RT@timmillwood:RT @dyfan apple store coming to Cardiff.although they do seem to think that we’re in Powys http://www.apple.com/job…
@jamescousins @mallmus seems to be coming back now
Um anyone else having twitter problems? i’ve not had any updates for 30 minutes :-/
doh
Finding it strange that my phone gets emails sent to it before my email client!
@liz_azyan I think so!
@liz_azyan it looks like the the_content() line is missing from the template :-\
@liz_azyan ah, i didn’t check those pages. i’m getting no actual content, although the structure is working
Reminder: Call for Ideas - http://www.consumerfocus… - what online tools would you like to see us build?
@pezholio Point any converts in our direction! It’ll be nice to get @lichfield_dc onto our list of councils
@NewcastleCC Thanks for the additional info.
CllrTweeps: TwitterPlan - get planning alerts via Twitter - http://bit.ly/yNCg
Wondering if @lichfield_dc have any council members on twitter - if they do, they should get in touch with @cllrtweeps
@LittleLaura thanks for pointing that out - it seems to have slipped through the net :-/
@LittleLaura great! if you have any ideas please submit them. we’re selecting our first project at the moment.
@LittleLaura Diolch un fawr! You might be interested in Consumer Focus Labs - http://www.consumerfocus…
@shepherdnick it is isn’t it!
@LittleLaura I’ve noticed you’ve found a few services like that, do you have a full list somewhere?
That last RT was via @LittleLaura
RT @NewcastleCC Want DMs for planning applications in your area?@planbot is now live and has data from us: http://bit.ly/Q9aBC
@liz_azyan the pages seem to be working for me
Reading through instructions on how to use our office’s remote access system
Utterly bemused & very disappointed with the government for PAYING for a site that already exists & has been done for free
Amazed at how many technical things have broken today. Wired phones (several times), Mobile Phones, WAN link, apache… the list goes on
@gimboland thats fair enough - i’ve done a bit of work with jQuery and quite like it. not had a chance with the others yet
@gimboland how you finding jQuery? I possibly missed it, but why jQuery over the others?
@glitchkitty thats what i was looking for when i found this one :-) nice and happy now
@glitchkitty ah, fair enough then :-) - what sort of job are you thinking of hunting for?
@glitchkitty is there any real choice in that?
@timmillwood @charlie_elise had one of those messages. I’ve been with 02 longer and not had one yet?!
@martinSFP I fit 3 columns without scrolling
@martinSFP not really. I use it on my eeePC and its fine on a small screen
@akyan looks like things got a bit hairy there for a bit - news seems to think its calmed down a bit now
@x5315 I have - its just there are so many tweets - my queue is somewhere in the high 90s now!
Struggling to keep up with the #g20 twitterfall
@ktbergson BBC Top Gear is moving away from cars to focus on bikes / BBC iPlayer Toaster Edition
I was thinking this morning that I hadn’t seen any April fools - but they are now starting to surface
RT @shepherdnick: Well done youchoob: http://is.gd/q2lX and the big G: http://is.gd/q151
RT @charlie_elise: @dafyddbach megalols: http://phails.com/
RT @akyan: The Guardian are switching to twitter? April fools scamps….. http://tinyurl.com/cv6z7…