Category: technology

A web service that allows you to quickly knock together a site for your upcoming events without much hassle. Currently in a limited testing phase that I have been happy to test and give my two pennies to.

My first impressions are nothing but positive – quick, easy and one assumes affordable (?!) service that covers all of the essentials for those on a budget and/or limited resources who don’t need a complicated bespoke event site. I managed to build an event site in minutes.

I identified some initial niggles which I have fed back to the team which I am sure were already on their list.

I look forward to the upcoming updates and then the launch which can’t be far away.

Visit Eventstreamsapp

Directors-Cut of the MINI Doc with Danny Trejo from Estevan Oriol on Vimeo.

Unfortunately, this recipe has been taken down from the BBC Food website. This is usually because our rights to publish the recipe have expired. However, to find an alternative recipe from the database you can search for the key ingredients in the search box or try one of our recommended recipes below.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/quickbeefstroganoff_8250

some might ask if we can afford to in these times of financial constraint, but I would argue that we can’t afford not to. We will die as IT departments if we don’t – we can’t afford just to keep the lights on, we have to find new ways of doing things.

Dr Christine Sexton

http://cicsdir.blogspot.com/2010/09/no-longer-gatekeepers.html

Our audience is our most trusted asset, more important than even our authors.

http://aworkinglibrary.com/library/archives/on_audience/

Image credit – myself

I consume a lot of other peoples stuff and happily feel that if I can in any way give back, I should. So the blog is creative common licensed to make other peoples lives easier should they choose to use any of my ramblings.

I went for the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 as that seems pretty lenient and used by a number of people I respect and trust – if it’s good enough for them, then it’s good enough for me.

The first thing you notice about the book is the restraint. It claims to only tell the dear reader exactly what they need to know in the physical book, leaving us to use the internet for the rest . The book  reminds me of the highway code. The restraint is purposeful and even mentioned in the foreward by Jeffrey Zeldman:

..only as many words and pictures as are needed

It didn’t take long to read and with ten or so other books waiting to be read I am thankful. I was very happy with the subject matter covered and the chosen level of depth – saying no more than the author felt was required for our brushes with HTML5 in 2010. If this book was to be published in say 1-2 years time, I bet it would leap-frog of all of the topics here today and just tell us what we need to know.

Curious about HTML5? then this is the book for you to give you the lay of the land. Off the back of reading it, I switched from old school to new school HTML5. Enjoy.

Ethan Kaplan shares his upcoming home networking plans with us. I merely thought about this stuff when we purchased our house a year ago. Ethan has actually planned the infrastructure and will soon execute it. Very impressive.

Photo set in the nytimes that caught my eye called ‘nights in Ghana‘