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On Build

I had long wanted to attend a conference. I follow a lot of people on Twitter who would regail us with their hash tags and @ replies while on their various stints in various parts of the world. I had …

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Quick CSS spacing tip

I was working on a site there the other night. I had a bunch of text being added to a sidebar, which was cramming in on top of itself. So I added the following line to my CSS (the bulk …

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Seeing the woods for the trees

As web developers and designers, most of us work within the strict confines of a process. Whether this process involves user testing or not (and if it doesn’t… why!?!?!), our usual parameters of work revolve around the client and their …

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Refresh Dublin

For those of you unaware, Refresh is a (spreading) global initiative to bring design and development individuals of like minds together to speak and share their collective knowledge. Dublin is no exception with Refreshing Cities Dublin taking place in the Science Gallery …

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Toying with CSS3 text-shadow

So I bought Andy Clarke’s “Hardboiled Web Design” lately and have been devouring and savouring it over the past week or so. I’ve only a chapter or two left, so once I’m done I’ll write a full review. So far, …

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CSS3 with IE6 now

I began working on a project lately where I was given a design but the colour scheme had to be decided upon because it needed to go through a branding process. Part of this required me to use some “creative” …

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A matter of books

I posted on Twitter a smattering of books I had recently acquired, along with some old ones which resulted in the question, when did my library get so sensible?

Fixing Twitter Tools on multisites

So, I couldn’t get Twitter Tools to work properly. It was constantly giving me “No tweets available at the moment.” After a lot of head banging and not really much information coming from the interwebs, I started to look at …

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24theweb – the aftermath

I wrote a blog post over on Arekibo’s Blog about taking part in 24theweb. It was an excellent event and an excellent day. I’m not going to repeat myself here, so check it out over there!

To or not to Tag/Categorise?

As you may have noticed from my blog posts, the tags and categories at the top of the posts are a bit all over the place (let’s not talk about the comments just yet!). I need to do something with …

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