Exchange Email Accounts For The Individual
email heaven for less than a tenner a month
Hosted Microsoft Exchange accounts are now so cheap if you have more than a couple of computers/devices it really makes sense to get yourself hooked up with one.
Switching to WordPress
From CMS to Blog engine
After deciding which way I wanted to take odd: and restructuring the web site to match it was obvious I did not need the complexity of a fully blown CMS. Wordpress seemed like the best choice.
Take a Peek at this!
User Interface design for mobile email client
Back in February this year (2008) odd: was commissioned to produce the UI (user interface) design for an unnamed mobile email device. Well, the unnamed device is called Peek, and is now on sale in the US!
The Bill Hill Experience
Reading on Screen and cleartype
Web typography is still in its infancy and still leaves a lot to be desired. Bill Hill is working hard on improving the experience of reading type on screen. A great set of interviews from Channel9.
10 Commandments for Programmers
the code monkey's gospel
This is a great post by Damien Guard – “The Ten Commandments for Developers” although the post is directed mainly at client application developers the basic philosophy behind the post holds true for web dev too.
Summer of NHibernate Screencasts
After some serious prodding from Chris I’ve started looking into the preview release of ASP.NET MVC. Tis’ a steep learning curve as I’m looking into TDD and NHibernate at the same time. But a little gem that’s making the NHibernate experience a little easier is Stephen Bohlen’s excellent series of screencasts – “Summer of NHibernate”.
But you don’t just have to take my word for it, they also come highly recommended by Scott Hanselman.
InDesign – Tables as Grids
Here’s a little tip that you’ll probably never need, but the day you do it will save you hours!
We were recently working in at Taylor O’Brien on an absolute screamer for a new client of theirs. We knew in advance that the copy would be changing up to the very last minute. The client is a high profile, high quality brand, it had to absolutely bang on and there was no wiggle room.
I am VERY impressed with Basecamp
I’ve been looking for an online project management app to tighten up operations with a client. I was searching for something that either one of us could host locally but stumbled upon a hosted application, Basecamp.
I have to say I’m very impressed, I’m not a big fan of hosted apps but Basecamp is quick, very simple to pick up and has just the right amount of features all very well…
The first dweller in the electronic cottage moves house
Arthur C. Clarke, once called "the first dweller in the electronic cottage" passed away today, he was 90. As well as writing inspirational science fiction he also predicted that, at 22,000 miles above the Earth’s surface, communications satellites would sit in geo-stationary orbit, allowing electronic signals to be bounced off them around the globe, effectively ushering in the world we know today.
Probably best know for his collaboration with Kubrick on 2001…
InDesign Table Borders Tip
making borders easier to work with
This is a handy little tip for when you are working with table borders in InDesign to hopefully make things just a little less fiddly. When you select the cells you want to work with the border tool appears in the info bar at the top of the page. This tool displays which borders on your selected cells will be affected by the changes you are about to make, any lines that are blue indicate borders that will be affected, any lines that are grey indicate borders that will not.
asides
FREE! ASP.NET MVC eBook Chapter
Scot Hanselman (and others) have a download link to the first chapter (more of a section at 1850 pages long!) totally free and totally cool. Get the NerdDinner.com walkthrough here.
ASP.NET MVC RC1
Scott Guthrie made the announcement that ASP.NET MVC has reached Release Candidate 1. Go grab the bits at http://www.asp.net/mvc/
EverSave for OS X
You should be saving your work on a regular basis in case of crashes, but for those who forget to cmd+s like clockwork EverSave seems like a great idea.
DNS is hard
Setting up DNS on an OS X Server is bloody hard! One step forward two steps back.
Wordpress for iPhone
It's free and it does exactly what it says on the tin.
Party!
Father of the brides 60th last night. Great party, not so great hangover.
Fantastic!