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Expanding your reach with Twitter..

Monitoring micro-blogging networks to expand your reach

There are two camps in the web world regarding microblogging tools like Twitter. Half of us think they're great the other half are still scratching their heads wondering what possible purpose these tools can serve. Plenty of arguments have been ...

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jQuery + Twitter + a night of coding

Building a simple web mashup in 1 night..

I've always used prototype and scriptaculous to do JS stuff in the past. However I've been hearing a lot of good things about jQuery and i'd noticed that sites i'd seen using jQuery seemed to have much smoother animation etc. ...

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Akismet and Django to stop comment spam

Fighting comment spam - without punishing your users

So, as some of you may know, I built this blog from scratch in django. While the simplicity and cleanliness of having a blog that I've written the code for myself has so far been great.. there are a few ...

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Building a web app in 12 hours..

Case study of thought process behind building the-hive-mind.com

The Hive What?? Visit The Hive Mind, then read on.. Recently, I've come to the conclusion that I'd rather not spend the rest of my life being a remote control for clients who want websites. I would rather spend ...

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Clicky! Googleless Web Analytics

Why I ditched Google Analytics for Clicky..

Disclosure : Clicky, my new web stats best friend, offer an affiliate scheme (another reason I like them). So if you are going to sign up.. follow my links when you do it?? ;) ## I've got Google Analytics, why ...

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No more IE6! Update your browser! Slacker!

How and why i'm now aggressively NOT supporting IE6

For years the web design community has been forced to deal with incompatible web browsers that fail to meet the standards set out by the w3c, resulting in a huge portion of the web design process being devoted to "cross ...

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Pragmatics vs Validation

Is code validation important in web design?

Something I've noticed recently which makes me wonder about people's understanding of how web design works is the designer/developer obsession with validation. I'm definitely not the first to realise this (i'm pretty sure i read an article not so long ...

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Freelancing Woes:

Accounting without an accountant

So, for the past few years as a freelancer the one part work that i've hated is paperwork, specifically accounting. The best part about working for someone else is that they chase the money for you, so you don't have ...

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Freelance web design: Taking the plunge.

My quick guide to how to go freelance..

After nearly ten years working in the web site industry, I've gone through the rather scary transition of switching from a fulltime (or at least secure) job, to freelancing a couple of times. It's scary, people call it "taking the ...

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Web 2.0? Pffft!

I hate web trends.

It's the latest craze. I've hidden myself from the concept as long as possible. But i've had a flurry of work from clients who want a "Web 2.0" look or style, so what the hell is web 2.0? Nicely, a ...

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