Article archive - page 7
CSS Structure - what a mess
Friday, November 2nd 2007
James posted a message on my blog some weeks ago and it's only now that a penny has dropped in my mind about what we need to deal with the issue of structure in CSS - the problem is we have none. As James points out you…
A 3 minute read (435 words)
FAH goes number 1 but we could do better
Friday, November 2nd 2007
Folding at home (FAH) has taken the Guiness World Record for being the most powerful distributed computing network with a top speed of over 1 petaflop - (a thousand trillion calculations per second). This is a remarkable…
A 3 minute read (481 words)
Let the new gaming witch hunt begin
Monday, October 15th 2007
I'm in my thirties now and I've been playing computer games from the age of about four when my dad first brought home the venerable Vic 20 - partly because he was doing a computer science degree at University but mostly…
A 4 minute read (750 words)
JQuery Slideshow
Sunday, October 14th 2007
It seems JQuery is definitely gaining some traction as a useful library - not least because of the development of the ThickBox Gallery library by Cody Lindley which is seeing huge amounts of use around the web at the…
A 5 minute read (827 words)
JQuery saves the day?
Saturday, August 25th 2007
If you haven't come across it yet there is a javascript library called JQuery which is being developed as an open source project, designed to give us better control over our web pages and the things we can do with them…
A 2 minute read (386 words)
Is £180 good value for Wii Sports?
Tuesday, July 3rd 2007
I am definitely a Nintendo fan boy. I've had every Nintendo console released on the market plus so many Game & Watches it's not funny. Call me sentimental but Nintendo has been a part of and is one of the definers of my…
A 3 minute read (512 words)
DRMed for Life
Thursday, May 3rd 2007
In the news recently has been the whole thing about not only the copy protection on HD-DVD and Blu-Ray disks being cracked but people posting digg links with decryption keys in them. I can understand Digg's position in…
A 4 minute read (674 words)
Super computer required to simulate half a mouse brain
Monday, April 30th 2007
Scientists have published that the've used the IBM Blue Gene L supercomputer to simulate half of a typical mouse's brain. More accurately they've simulated about half the neurons and just over half the number of synaptic…
A 3 minute read (564 words)
When CSS goes bad
Sunday, April 29th 2007
If you do a lot of CSS work you'll have seen particular bugs time after time and how to deal with them, however when things do go wrong and they will trust me finding bug related information can be a nightmare. For…
A 3 minute read (443 words)
The things we take for granted
Tuesday, April 24th 2007
I had one of those amazing moments as a techie last night where you get so gobsmacked by something that you think about it even a day or so later. I was doing something on a mate's computer. Fair enough he isn't the most…
A 4 minute read (604 words)