fordie’s Blog

Companies today are climbing over each other to harness the power of social networks, to reach a wider audience and ultimately get more sales. Get it right and the public will love you. Get it Wrong and you’d better be prepared for some pain
They forecast snow but it looks like hfail.
Just over a week ago [...]

Bobbie Johnson has article in the Guardian today about twitter. Nothing remarkable about that, Johnson is after all one of the Graun’s Tech Journalists.
What is remarkable is the number of comments moaning and bitching about the coverage that the Guardian gives to twitter. It’s true that they have given it quite a lot of coverage [...]

When purchasing software online you expect the process to go something like this:

Choose your software
Add to cart
Pay
Download Software

nice and simple & stress free. Unfortunately some companies don’t get it – Tomtom I’m looking at you.
Yesterday I decided to purchase the Tomtom maps of Western Europe in preparation for our holiday next month, so I spent [...]

We’ve started using jQuery quite heavily to power our javascript widgets – without exception everyone who’s used it here has had their own little jQuery epiphany. It’s quite funny to watch, people tend to resist it to start with (particularly the hardcore coders) – but when they use it for a while and see how [...]

We’re moving house next Thursday, so last week I phoned Sky to let them know. I booked in installation of Sky TV at our new address and told them that we didn’t want to continue with the sky broadband when we moved.
On Monday My wife phoned me at work to tell me that she couldn’t [...]

I just noticed that Facebook have stopped pre pending their statuses with “is:” which, in my opinion is a good thing. Unfortunately they haven’t stopped pre pending “is twittering: ” to updates that come in from twitter.
Fortunately Dustin Brewer has come to the rescue by developing twittersync which, as the name sort of suggest syncs [...]

When we were developing the Tesco Property Market website there was a requirement to be position the footer either at the bottom of the browser window or at the end of the content if it was over one screen high. On the original site I wasn’t able to acheive this, due to the way some [...]

One thing that has always infuriated me with .net is it’s insistence on adding an invalid name attribute to the asp.net form*.
About a month ago I found a nice easy cure for this, so I thought I’d share it. All you need to do to stop .net adding the name attribute to the form is [...]