Archives for: "June 2007"
GDD07UK: Building a Mobile Website
Jun 16th
Review: Building an Interoperable Mobile Website at GDD07UK, The Brewery in London, 52 Chiswell Street, London 16:45 to 17:30
My final talk of the day was title on the signup page 'Developing for the mobile', which led me to believe it would be a discus… more »
GDD07UK: Building better AJAX apps
Jun 13th
Review: Building better AJAX apps at GDD07UK, The Brewery in London, 52 Chiswell Street, London 15:45 to 16:30
Since I'm now a few weeks behind on my reviews (the date of this post is when I started writing it...), probably everyone who cares about Goog… more »
Safari for Windows - A Review
Jun 12th
Product Review: Safari 3.0 Beta for Windows
I spent most of the afternoon fannying around with Safari on Windows in one way or another, so I thought I'd write up my first impressions. First off, things I liked:
Fast Javascript - javascript heavy web… more »
GDD07UK: Google Data APIs (Part 1)
Jun 10th
Review: Google Data APIs at GDD07UK, The Brewery in London, 52 Chiswell Street, London 14:45 to 15:30
The GData APIs are a uniform interface into almost all the Google applications (Blogger, Mail, Calendar, Spreadsheets etc.). They're all based on an e… more »
GDD07UK: New features in the Maps API
Jun 9th
Review: New features in the Maps API at GDD07UK, The Brewery in London, 52 Chiswell Street, London 13:45 to 14:30
The talk started with a history/overview of Google Maps API - this was quite useful to me, because I wasn't that familiar with API to star… more »
Google Developer Day 2007 UK - Morning Sessions
Jun 7th
OK, so I know I said I'd post at the weekend, and instead it's been a week, but I'm sure I'll catch up eventually... In this post I'll cover the morning - basically the keynote and lunch, and yes, before you ask, in my opinion anything up until the end… more »
In-the-Brain of Erik Doernenburg: Why Agile Teams Fail
Jun 6th
Review: Why Agile Teams Fail at Skills Matter, Sekforde Street, London 18:30 to 20:30
Erik started with a discussion of what motivates people towards agile practices. He quoted a recent study (I'm not sure, but I think he meant this one from the IEEE)… more »
Scriptaculous Draggable and Z-index
Jun 5th
I was building a prototype today using the Scriptaculous Draggable object. It was a fairly simple idea, a set of 'items' along the top of the page which could be dragged onto a selection of timeslots below, the idea being that by dragging the item to th… more »