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Project Facade

10th February 2005

After two months of blood, sweat and tear-soaked tags, today we finally launched Project Facade on behalf of new client, respected artist and all-round good chap Paddy Hartley and his team.

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Libs site nominated for NME award

1st February 2005

The Libertines official site is one of five to be nominated for the forthcoming NME Awards. After a reader vote, all the possibles have been whittled down into actuals, and if you desire, you can vote here (the band have a whopping 10 noms).

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Server: The non-appliance of science

31st January 2005

I was up at 6am trying to wrestle back CollyLogic and The Libertines, and nearly gave up hope. I’ve just about had enough of our continuing problems with our Media Temple Appliance Server.

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EE user? Then I need your help

30th January 2005

I’m looking for a little feedback for a forthcoming Expression Engine project. Do you use EE? Have you just started using it? Been using it for some time? If so, I’d appreciate your help.

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You know you work too hard when…

27th January 2005

You know you work too hard when you end up documenting the fact that you’re working too hard. We’ve a lot of new sites to release over the next few weeks, but getting them finished is taking a lot of graft. Here are ten true ‘time for a rest’ symptoms I’ve noticed over the last two weeks.

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In my hallway, far, far away…

21st January 2005

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Spammers get spannered by Google

20th January 2005

Something to celebrate if you allow comments on your website. As you may know, those nice people at Google have implemented something special to counteract spammers. Brilliantly, the plug-in masters of all our favourite publishing systems have quickly given us what we need to take advantage of this new method.

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A rant about the state of blogging

13th January 2005

A few loud voices in the web community are bemoaning the lack of fresh ideas, new techniques, and a drought of constant exploration and innovation from A-list, up-and-coming or guru-like bloggers and writers.

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Revised Photo Sets using EE Gallery

5th January 2005

The Collylogic Photo Sets (now removed, sorry!) have been completely revised. Desperate to have all my pages controlled through one admin panel, I’ve finally finished the transition from Gallery Script 1.9 to Expression Engine Photo Gallery - a new module added to the latest EE build. It’s simply awesome.

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Colly’s end-of-year review

31st December 2004

Yes, it’s yet another end-of-year overview. Well, a selfish list. So, let me take a stroll through the year that was and try and make some sense of it from a work, play and culture viewpoint.

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