Archive for February, 2010

How we built our website revamp (Part Two – iPhone and jQTouch)

Posted by Development | Category: Development | February 26, 2010 4:06 pm

In part one, I explained how we developed our new website revamp. I covered what our initial brief was, a quick overview of our technology stack, framework and CMS as well as covering some specifics of the build itself.  
In this article I will explain how we developed the iPhone specific version of our website [...]

My New Best Friend’s Betrayal

Posted by Admin | Category: General | February 25, 2010 4:23 pm

Ever since he started at Code our resident K9 (Linus) employee has looked at me with a slight amount of fear in his eyes.  He’s shied away from my advances to stroke him, ducking his head out of the way at every opportunity.  

Recently he has been becoming ever more friendly. Resting his head on [...]

No Heroes Anymore

Posted by Admin | Category: Creative | February 22, 2010 2:10 pm

Whilst in bed with the flu, I’ve had the time to go through my old photos and this brought back loads of memories of sun filled days in the 70s doing crazy things like jumping over 6 of my friends on my Raleigh Burner BMX or recreating the opening scene from Raiders of the Lost [...]

How we built our website revamp (Part One)

Posted by Admin | Category: Development | February 19, 2010 9:55 am

We’ve recently revamped our website. Bits of it are still familiar, but there’s a whole lot of change going on under the hood. In this article, I’ll briefly explain how we rebuilt the site, outlining along the way some of the libraries we used as well as an introduction to our own bespoke tools and [...]

Email and the problem with Gmail

Posted by Admin | Category: General | February 15, 2010 10:03 am

If it’s not broken, don’t fix it.
After years of using a standard email format, last year I decided to switch to Gmail. Everyone else seemed to be using it and loving it. Six months on, I still hate it.
Why do I hate it? All my email threads are backwards – I want to read the [...]