Earlier this month, I was invited to speak at the Excellence In Local Government Customer Service 2008 conference in Sydney. It was my first time presenting on my own outside of companies I’d worked for. (I did the same presentation about two months earlier at a different conference, but I shared the presenting with another [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Bruce Mactier Building Designers is a Shepparton-based business which has been providing quality, affordable design services since 1984 and Mad Web Skills were lucky enough to have the opportunity to build their new website.
Bruce and the team were great to work with, and I had a lot of fun with the project.
In the “you learn something new every day” category, comes this. I just found out that when working with php, you can use block commenting (like /*this*/) in the middle of a line of code. For example, if you have something like this:
$debug = ‘really cool ‘;
echo ‘This is my ‘.$debug.’script!’;
… you can remove your [...]
At WDS08 I discussed using Javascript to create games with Miles Eftos, who created a version Super Mario Bros in Javascript. Matt Wescott has gone one better to create a ZX Spectrum emulator in JavaScript. Now, how about a C64 emulator?
I first saw lead Django developer, Adrian Holovaty, speak brilliantly at Web Directions 07 about how to present data more effectively. Now, I’ve just learned that he is also an awesome guitarist! Also he’s a fan of jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. Ahhh… Now it all makes sense.
