http://www.camaban.co.uk The work and pleasure of a mad, fictional, pre-historic monument builder Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:28:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It took me some time to get into Delicious, I never really saw the pull of it. I could never be bothered to copy a url, goto the site, login, and post it.That was until I found something that smooths the whole process out. I am an ... http://www.camaban.co.uk/2008/01/23/opera-delicious-awesomeness/ When asking "can you..?" also ask "should you...?" When reading a list of requirements, ask yourself why they are requirements, what is their purpose, rather than just creating something that technically meets those requirements, but doesn't meet the spirit of the requirements. http://www.camaban.co.uk/2007/09/28/questions-to-ask-yourself/ Over at Opera Watch, there's a lovely graph showing page views per month shown on Opera Mini.  It's one of those sharply rising graphs we're used to seeing from popular web start ups.  About 100,000 page views in March 2006, to almost a billion page views in July 2007.I think that's pretty ... http://www.camaban.co.uk/2007/08/28/opera-mini-displaying-1-billion-pages-a-month/ In these times of web standards advocates speaking the message of cross browser compatibility and not tying site to specific browsers or devices, why, why, WHY, are people suddenly busying themselves with making iPhone optimised versions of their services?37signals have been doing it (in fact, I find that fairly hypocritical ... http://www.camaban.co.uk/2007/07/24/why-the-fuss-on-iphone-optimised-web-sites/ Just picked up on an excellent blog post via Reddit (some non-political stuff does still appear on there). Deadlines, Overtime and Undertime talks about what happens to productivity when people work longer hours in an attempt to get a project finished for a tight, unreasonable deadline.More code bugs, more sick days, lower ... http://www.camaban.co.uk/2007/07/23/overtime-and-flase-economies/ No matter how much effort you put into thinking about a site design, how you lay things out, how you highlight certain things, there are pretty much always comments about how you could improve it, how certain things are annoying etc... I find that when you launch a new web site, ... http://www.camaban.co.uk/2007/07/20/differences-between-design-and-usage/ Re-inventing nature for cheaper solar power suggests a group fo Australian scientists have developed something akin to photosythesis, on a small scale. If they really have managed that, and they can harness that energy in electrical form, and scale it up, that is awesome news.  Much more efficient than our current solar ... http://www.camaban.co.uk/2007/07/17/plant-like-solar-panels/ Ignore whether your new site is Web 2.0 or not.  Concentrate on doing cool stuff with it. http://www.camaban.co.uk/2007/05/10/forget-web-20/ Digg has just been removed from my Bloglines feeds. The reason?  The bunch of (probably) teenage muppets continually spamming the site with 'articles' about the accidently leaked hex code key, and everyone digging all of them. Digg has finally disappeared completely up it's own arse.  It completely highlights the generally level of maturity ... http://www.camaban.co.uk/2007/05/02/digg-users-kill-its-credibility-like-never-before/ In a distinctly non-work related post, I went away camping for the first time in a long time over Easter. A bit of walking round the north coast of Exmoor.Here's some pictures, awesome weather generally :) ... http://www.camaban.co.uk/2007/04/11/went-camping-at-the-weekend/