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April 29th, 2009

Since upgrading my blog from Wordpress.com to a hosted Wordpress.org installation, I’m only now realising how good Wordpress is and how simple they’ve made the migration possible.

Posted in blogging, wordpress

Movin’ on Up

April 27th, 2009

I have now upgraded and moved my blog from http://hibbins.wordpress.com/ to http://blog.marchibbins.com/.

Posted in blogging, wordpress

The Perfect Design

April 24th, 2009

This month’s London Web Standards group met to discuss Designing for the Social Web, by Joshua Porter. Big thanks to Jeff Van Campen, the group’s organiser, for kindly giving me a copy!

Posted in londonwebstandards

4th Time Around

April 23rd, 2009

Last year Facebook released Facebook Connect and about the same time Google released Friend Connect, they’re two very similar services. Now, this week, Twitter have announced their connection service, called ‘Sign in with Twitter’.

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Posted in dataportability, facebook, google, openstandards, twitter, yahoo

Argument

April 20th, 2009

If you’re like me and cannot resist watching YouTube videos in High Definition or High Quality whenever the option is available, you can now link directly to High Quality and High Definition versions of a video by adding or altering a single argument on the URL string.

Posted in spotify, youtube

Seven

April 8th, 2009

Last month I managed to get to This Happened London #7, another great night of inspiring talks showcasing recent innovations in digital art and interactive media.

Although it was nearly a month ago now, I noticed Chris O’Shea recently posted all the videos and presentations online, so thought I’d use that as an excuse to talk about it.

Posted in thishappened

Changes

April 6th, 2009

For a change, this month’s LFPUG didn’t actually feature any Flash. Instead, we were presented with an introduction to iPhone application development with two single-hour talks delving into developing with Objective-C and the Cocoa Touch environment.

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Posted in flash, iphone, lfpug, mobile

Group Therapy

April 4th, 2009

I’m a regular attendee of the London Flash Platform User Group and the London Flex User Group and I get notified each time a new technology group is formed or arranges an event on Meetup.com. Through that, I recently heard about the London Web Standards group.

Posted in londonwebstandards, openstandards

Sometimes it might seem like it was planned.