March 18th, 2008
It was exciting news when apple released details of the SDK for developing iPhone applications last week. Watching the roadmap video I was very impressed with the direction that Apple have taken for rolling out the development of apps to third parties and distributing said apps in a brand new apps store.
Of particular interest (aside from the accelerometer controlled games) was the AOL messenger. It got me thinking about the messenger system we use to remote-connect at work - Skype.
With rumours rife around the whole subject of a G3 iPhone - and now the ability for third party developers to bring their apps to the worlds best mobile platform, it isn’t a great stretch to suppose that they’ll be skype for iPhone.
Obviously, the 2.5G EDGE network that the UK iPhone currently uses wouldn’t be enough to support VOIP calls - but with 3G support it’s not unthinkable that iPhone users will be calling each other for free - Using their O2 unlimited data.
I wait with bated breath to see what O2 (and by arbitration Apple) will do about this threat to their revenue. If Apple’s recent actions are anything to go by, there must surly be some kind of reaction to this.
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March 6th, 2008
I was recently asked by a friend to take a look at their website contact form. Viewing the source of the HTML that Quark Xpress had generated, my eyes started to bleed. So as an act of mercy, I put the old html out of it’s misery and re-created the whole thing from scratch.
It still astounds me how a program as big as Quark can produce such poor html. Surly a LOT of designers now wish to publish stuff to web, and while perhaps Quark wouldn’t be the tool of choice for most dedicated web developers, it’s still the no.1 layout tool for print.
Ok, so the html it outputs may not be as accessible and compact as any a human could do, but they certainly could be a lot lot better.
I always find it useful to spend the odd bit of time working on other things than Glubble, as it gives me a chance to learn new tricks and experiment with things I wouldn’t usually.
Be sure to checkout Zero One - They do some quality print stuff.
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March 5th, 2008
Some of the keener eyed among you may have noticed a few little housekeeping changes around the site. These are a forerunner to a larger update planned later this year. I don’t want to give away too much yet (as ideas are still in the process of forming) but hopefully the upgrades will promote a greater sense of community around the place. I’m busy getting to grips with JQuery and Wordpress plugin writing in any spare moment I can grab.
But whats new now I hear you cry. Well, here’s a full list of (small) changes to satisfy the nosy ones.
- I’ve cleaned up the content text styles. Lists are now more behaved, and some other tiny tweaks have been made
- I’ve installed the brilliant Subscribe to Comments plugin. This should serve to start building community in preparation for the big changes. (I can’t stop myself saying too much can I?)
- You can now register! At the moment this will save you typing in your details when you leave a comment, but there’s more planned for this too!
- I’ve also tided up some other random bits of css - None of which I can be bothered to go into here.
Anyway, Enjoy…
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