View from the Potting Shed

I was chatting with a friend online this evening (hello Steve!) about web coding, and I offered him my three favourite add-ons for Mozilla Firefox which I find absolutely essential for coding and debugging HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
Work in Firefox, debug in IE
When developing code I tend to always work with Firefox first. When […]

There’s a lot on today, so I’ll keep this brief — not least because I need to drive to Edinburgh shortly.
Today is Jane’s final day of work at The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award. I know that she’s looking forward to the challenges ahead with Aberlour Child Care Trust but she’ll also miss the Award too. […]

From 1995 - 1997 I worked for the Shaftesbury Society with young homeless people (16-25 year olds) in London. I worked in three hostels: two direct access (in Kilburn and Camberwell) and one supported hostel in Bermondsey.
I remember hearing at that time that there was enough money being pumped into the various homelessness charities and […]

For the last four months or so I’ve been working on a new redesign of the SAULCAT interface for the University of St Andrews Library. SAULCAT, for those not fortunate enough to have studied at the University of St Andrews, stands for St Andrews University Library CATalogue.
By the time you read this (I wrote […]

Quite a few people have been asking me recently how work is going. So I thought I’d say a little bit about how work is going: Work is going very well, thank you for asking.
I can hardly believe that I’ve been in the job for ten weeks now. In some respects it feels […]

Tomorrow I’m off to Bath for a couple of days, to attend the Institutional Web Management Workshop 2006. It’s a workshop for … well, institutional web managers. Never been to one before, but I’m looking forward to it.
In a change of roles, it’s me who’s going to be away for a few days […]

An Information Architecture report displayed in Lower Parliament Hall, St Andrews.
It’s been a busy old week, as we’ve been working on the Information Architecture report by American firm Dynamic Diagrams, hence the noticable lack of blogging action; yesterday was an 11 hour working day, Thursday was over 12. As tiring as it has been, it […]