Here in the Hive

Web Developers Conference

Dan — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:20:35 +0000

Yesterday I went down to Bristol to sit on a panel at the Web Developers Conference, which is mainly aimed at university students that have an interest in getting into the web industry. It was a really good idea that Alex (and Dan) started last year - to bring the industry to the students so [...]

Digesting Social Media Camp London

Dan — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:47:40 +0000

I finally managed to get everything organised to get myself on an early train from Manchester down to SocialMediaCamp London on the 4th October. It’s my second venture into the community; my second BarCamp style event too. First thing I noticed was that the facilities were great at Wallacespace in St Pancras. It’s a [...]

Normal service (almost) resumed

Dan — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:42:28 +0000

So, I recently moved HereintheHive over to my new hosting at Media Temple and upgraded WordPress at the same time. Save for a missing post or too, all went according to plan. Now for some blogs I’ve not had the chance to write over the last week or so…

BarCampBrighton3

Dan — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 13:00:12 +0000

Well it’s a week after and I’m mulling over the experience of my first BarCamp. After dConstruct I was still in a developer mindset, even clouded with beers from the after-party, so I was ready for more. I had the feeling that it was going to be more geeky and again I’d no nobody. As [...]

dConstruct

Dan — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:58:52 +0000

As the dust has settled on my first dConstruct, it’s time for reflection (although the combination of that and BarCamp have left me tired, hungover and with a brain pulsating with ideas). It was my first conference in years and I’m hooked. I admit, I had preconceptions; maybe I didn’t realise how many. I think it’s [...]

Chrome: First Impressions

Dan — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:40:48 +0000

So last night (UK time), Google held a press event to formally launch their browser ‘Chrome‘ to the masses. It’s still in beta (v0.2 it seems) and on Windows only (at ;east for the moment) but this is going to be the topic of conversation for a while, but is it any good? The interface [...]

Google Chrome

Dan — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:38:44 +0000

The Twitterverse first started the word going round about this yesterday after Philipp Lenssen scanned in a comic he’d been sent from Google (which they’ve now posted up), telling the story of why and how they’ve finally made their own browser: Chrome. There’s long been rumours of a ‘GBrowser’ coming and it seems that Chrome will [...]

What’s your set-up? Working locally on Windows

Dan — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:04:21 +0000

Just a quick post aimed at people newer to web development, really. I can remember a time when I had some web-space and some crappy HTML editor from a disc from with .net magazine, an FTP client and not much else. And this was in the days of dial-up so learning and progress were slow. So [...]

Prototyping a site

Dan — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:33:05 +0000

I’m more of a coder than a designer but that said, I’m really into user experience and the role that plays in design. Maybe that is why when I do design work I find it useful to prototype ideas. Typically I’d do a rough mock-up in Fireworks, blocking it out, using guides to identify the [...]

Browser support - the death of IE6?

Dan — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:03:12 +0000

The IE Death March site has been doing the rounds of the Twitterverse over the last few days attempting what many have tried before. It’s a tough one; IE6 when it came out was a decent browser but as the site reminds us it’s 7 years old - an age in web years! It’s also [...]