Easter Sunday ride

Easter sunday ride

WebSourceEast: Breaking out of development presentation

Heres the presentation. I will link to the video when WSE release it. Great day.

http://www.slideshare.net/damonky/websourceeast-2010-breaking-out-of-development
Software mentioned

Aptana Studio
Jira
Bugzilla
Trac
Mylyn task integration
Subclipse

The iPad: A step in a dangerous direction for Internet freedom?

There is no doubt in my mind that the iPad will open up the internet to a whole new segment of the market. It will allow people to use the internet without the complexities of a modern desktop system. It will also, as Stowe Boyd states in his article Why Closed works, it changes the [...]

Drawing on the iphone

One of my favourite apps of the moment is vellum. Vellum is a simple drawing app with just three tools: ink,graphite, and scratch. With these it is ridiculously easy to create effective sketches on the go, or monotone artworks.
You can read more about the app at http://vellumapp.com/iphone/

Cutting the fat from my RSS subscriptions

I’ve been slowly but surely working through all the aspects of my electronic life and removing clutter. The first victim has been my rss feeds. I found that I couldnt keep up with the articles – and as such good articles were being drowned out by the average. With a gritted teeth and a first [...]

Conditional Authentication using .htaccess

Working on sites very close to live is always tricky. Clients want to use the site unhindered, you want to check it through before it goes live. The one thing you don’t want happen is for the public to discover and access the site before it goes live.
The code below allows only grant access without [...]

A quick re-design preview.

I’ve been rattling away on  paper and in photo shop for a few weeks now trying to come up with a new blog design. My aim was to create a site rather tahn a blog, and as such I’ve decided to create a hmoepage and move the blog to a subsection. Below are a few [...]

one week ago i was in the alps :)

At about 2000 feet overlooking bourg de ousin, this is one of my favourite moments of the holiday.
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Pen and Ink showcase

A little experiment with light and shadows when drawing hair

Whilst waiting for some files were uploading I was browsing through my old illustration portfolio. I forgot how much I used to love just sitting and drawing. Anyway, below are a few of the pieces that I did. They were originally intended for t-shirt designs. I think, after looking at them I shall tidy them [...]