While I was working at Ritsumeikan APU in Japan, our web infrastructure was letting down the students and the Prof’s that used the web based course tool in anger. The problem was the spike. At the start of every lecture, or worse, the start of web based tests and examinations, literally hundreds of students would [...] Read more – ‘How Twitter Scaled Up’.
Trends come and go, particularly in the field of IT, but there are some things that come along that change the way you work to become a trusted part of your online arsenal. Enter Compass - a smartly conceived integration of core CSS goodies, including the Blueprint CSS Framework, and a sweet set of scripts. Read more – ‘Compass’.
A new font family, to me at least is Chartwell from TKTYPE. But to describe this as simply a font-family is a dis-service.
As they say on their site: Chartwell is a family that explores the use of OpenType to interpret and visualize data... Read more – ‘Charting with Chartwell’.
I laughed out loud when I saw this. Not that it’s funny, it’s not. It strikes such a chord – if I didn’t laugh I would weep. How many times I have experienced practically all of these examples in some incarnation or another. I dread to think how many productive hours have been lost by [...] Read more – ‘If you do this in Email….’.
In a previous life, back in the mid naughties, I had the pleasure of re-designing a very ‘Frontpage 98′ website for my Japanese University, APU. It was a pleasure, and a pain. The pleasure was the challenge of building a dual language CMS driven site, with multiple stakeholders, multiple audiences, and all that is involved [...] Read more – ‘University Website’.
