Author: simonwheatley
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Great presentations – or death to bullet points
I’ve spent a fair amount of the day today looking into fantastic presentations, and what makes them look fantastic. Presentations are really hard aren’t they? Getting up in front of people. Putting your points and ideas up there to be criticised. We need to give ourselves the best chance of interesting and engaging people, to increase…
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The first WordCamp UK was a cracker
I spent the weekend in the company of 50 or so other WordPress users, designers, developers, the odd Aussie Automattician, and a WordPress lead developer at the first WordCamp UK. It was great to meet a such a varied and interesting group of bloggers and blog makers, many of whom I’m going to have to wait until next…
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Following hashtags with a Fluid app for Summize, errr, I mean Twitter Search
Just put together a quick Fluid app for Twitter Search. (Fluid is a Mac specific browser designed to be used with just one app, and together with it’s user scripts, think Grease Monkey, you can mimic basic application functionality. I’ve just put one together which tracks the Twitter conversations around one Hashtag using the new…
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WordPress plugin development presentation
My presentation for WordCamp UKÂ on WordPress Plugin Development (although I will update this soon with better slide notes):Â PDF version.
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Ideas for my council
You can click on the mockup above, to see a full screen view of the mockup. This mockup is part of a submission that Guy Dickinson of Participo and I are submitting for the UK Government’s “Show Us A Better Way“Â competition to create innovative and socially useful applications with Government data. Update: You can see…
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Phew. My calendar is synced to my phone again
My phone used to sync with iCal several times a day, but when I upgraded to Leopard it wiped my cron tab file and all that goodness stopped. (Your crontab file is a way of scheduling tasks on your Mac using the Terminal application.) I’ve just googled around for the solution and found it again:Â Use…
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Why do the trains have to stop?
Fantastic idea from China for a transport system where the trains don’t stop at stations, but where people still get on and off. Most of the energy in public transport is spent in getting the train/bus/tram moving again only shortly after you’ve stopped it at a station. So how do we remove this wasteful but…
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Velocity Markup documentation
Velocity is a Java centric template markup language/syntax, and the documentation for using it seems a little Google shy for some reason… so, here it is, for me as much as anyone: Velocity markup documentation.
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Attention difficulties
When you’re lying across the front seats at the top of the bus, it’s really easy to miss your stop. #