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Spaceship Sex with Leonard Cohen?

9th March 2009

I had decided not to write about the Watchmen movie, partly because I’m the kind of Watchmen fan that many of you will dislike, in that I only read the original comics a few months ago. Does that mean I love the story any less than you? Maybe. Maybe not. I don’t really care, because I found myself giddy with anticipation for this film, and I know the details enough to care deeply about it. Anyway, I decided to blast through my thoughts on the film version to help me understand whether I actually liked it or not. As you’ll discover, I’m still not sure…

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One more hero…

9th March 2009

My esteemed colleagues Glen and Greg have publicly outlined the plans for their first (of many) epic cycle journeys.

Notts to Paris 2009

Route no.1 is a pedal-based fiasco bookended by Nottingham and Paris. You can find out more at the lovely new One More Hero website, should you feel so inclined.

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Future Of Web Apps Tour

10th February 2009

Extra bit of speaking news. I’ll be presenting Knowing Your Audience on the Leeds leg of the freshly-announced Future Of Web Apps Tour, landing in Yorkshire on 28th May 2009. The tour also takes in Edinburgh, Bristol and Cambridge. Hoping I genuinely get picked up in a double-decker bus, but more likely it’ll be the train. See you there?

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Designing For The Web

2nd February 2009

Having read the thing cover-to-cover over the weekend, I was just about to write a detailed post about my friend Mark Boulton’s new PDF book A Practical Guide to Designing for the Web (available from today).

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Opening my toolbox for @Media

31st January 2009

Its been a truly hectic start to 2009 with myriad complex projects on the go, plus some smashing “in-the-field” activity. In January I presented Writing For The Web at a Business In The Community “comm net” event in London, and in February I’m speaking at both Nottingham Trent University, and again at University of Nottingham. Yes, we have two universities.

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Erskine Design v2

3rd January 2009

Approximately five minutes before we finished for Christmas and ran to the pub, we launched something we’ve been working on for over five months whenever we could - the new Erskine Design website - lets call it version 2.

Erskine Design homepage

None of us will be going into any detail yet about the millions of decisions we made, as we’re saving that for an exclusive article elsewhere in the coming weeks or months. Still, read on for a brief explanation…

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The EE 2.0 example site

3rd January 2009

In December, the secret was out, and on Christmas Eve Eve our friends at EllisLab published an interview with Greg and myself all about Agile Records.

Agile Records

I was in the pub at the time, having just finished for Christmas, and I have been offline in the real world for 10 days, so apologies for the delayed post. Anyway, the interview should tell you most of what you might want to know. Certainly for us as seasoned EE users this was a unique opportunity - the chance to create the default site/templates that will ship with the eagerly anticipated EE 2.0. The project was completed a few months back, so we’re chuffed to bits to finally be able to let you see a teaser page.

We also launched something else just before we ran to the pub, and I’ll no doubt stick up a quick post about that shortly.

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Building Beautiful Websites with EE - a FOWD workshop from Erskine Design

8th December 2008

We’re very excited to announce that our man Jamie Pittock will be leading a fantastic workshop at the third Future Of Web Design in London on May 1st 2009. Its a killer, bringing together our passion for building beautiful websites with ExpressionEngine into the not unsurprisingly titled Building Beautiful Websites with ExpressionEngine half-day workshop. Read on for the details…

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Why I use Dropbox, and how it enables killer scrapbooking

3rd December 2008

I think the chaps in the office reckon I’m on some sort of commission from Dropbox, so evangelical have I become about the web-based storage system recently. Well, I’m certainly not, nor has anyone asked me to write about it here today. I simply wanted to share with you why it has radically improved my efficiency, helped me manage files across two Macs, and also how I use it for killer “scrapbooking”.

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I am not John Cleese

27th November 2008

OK. Lets start this post about my book Beginning CSS Web Development with one of my favourite reviews.

...for a Brit his humor is NOT funny! Collison needs to read “Eats, Shoots and Leaves” if he wants to learn about British humor. In the meantime, just skip it; you’re not John Cleese!

That’s an American there, telling me my British humour isn’t funny. Meh, I don’t care, and everyone else thinks both myself and the book are funny. Anyway, he’s right about one thing. I am not John Cleese.

Now, if you’ve time to spare, come with me now as I embark upon a retrospective look back at the process, aiming as I am to work out whether it was really worth all the bother or not…

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