Archive for the ‘coding’ Category
You might have noticed that my Tweetroll (in my sidebar) has been changing colours recently. Well, you guessed it, we’re almost ready to release the next version. The main thrust behind this new version has been allowing greater customisability and conformance. Hyder has been improving the design to make sure...
We’ve just rolled out a new version of the TweetRoll widget which is the really cool Twitter widget you can alongside. With every luck you should see much difference but the widget will be better behaved with a greater selection of templates. Creating a Javascript widget that uses CSS for...
I had an interesting experience today. I organised a talk for the BCS about development techniques, specifically unit testing, TDD and BDD. Granted, it’s a bit of a geeky subject, but hey, it is the British Computer Society, and a technical event was well overdue. We had a great turnout,...
Sometimes, it takes a small problem to make one realise how little he actually knows. I personally know a fair bit about all sorts of technology, ranging from networks, to development to integration; however I haven’t really had much experience with Linux. It’s partly because most of the services I...
I got a comment today from one of the readers on this blog: Hi Owen, I’m looking around for the Media Corner widget you’re using. I can’t seem to find it. Can you provide a link? Thanks, Andy I’m sorry to disappoint you Andy, it’s not actually a widget you...
I ended up scratching my head today over a line of Javascript that was just not playing ball. The line was this: opener.document.forms[0].plugin-media4pic.value = "avatar.jpg"; All I was trying to do was update a field on the parent form that called a popup with an image that had been uploaded...
Corvida from SheGeeks was looking for a custom search to Twitter earlier, so I thought I’d knock one up for her. It’s not tremendously difficult to do, and I might post how to do it on AskOwen sometime soon, but in the meantime, TweeterSearch is available for people to download,...
