fordie’s blog

Back in April I attended Future of Web Design 2008; a two day event with a conference on Thursday and Workshops on Friday. On the Friday afternoon I attended a session on Guerrilla Usability Testing run by Andy Budd from Clear Left.
Usability testing is something I’ve been itching to do properly for years; I’ve been [...]

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 [...]

I ain’t afraid of no ghost!
Ever since I started blogging, I’ve been trying to come up with a good way to get html into my posts so that can write tutorials. It’s something I’ve struggled with and as an upshot - I have two or three articles that are waiting to be published that I [...]

I think I’ve finally cracked the various PC issues I’ve been having - last night I reinstalled XP on my laptop (again). I’d done a reinstall last week, but I’d neglected to format the HDD first; the upshot of which was my hard disk was almost completely full of folders XP wouldn’t let me [...]