In the popular relationship book, Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, chapter 2 talks about the concept of Mr Fix-it. The idea being that men see something that is broken and instantly need to jump in and fix it. Ignoring the fact that I’m not sure this is necessarily a gender specific issue,…

I have had on my ToDo list for a long while to write a post about how I manage my time and prioritise things. But to be honest, blogging in general has been suffering from being deprioritised so much of late that this post was just never getting written. However the latest episode of the Cortex…

There is a re-occurring thought I often have around what is the difference between Leadership and Management. Over the last 4 years working in different roles I have observed the good and the bad of both. Identifying a good leader or a good manager isn’t hard. Often the people under them are the clear indication.…

News broke a couple of days ago that Prince died at 57 in his home. I have always liked Prince’s music and had massive respect for his incredible musical talent. I heard when I was a teenager that he played over 50 instruments!?! However the biggest influence Prince had on me, really had nothing to…

I recently had an article published at Ora discussing a common misconception I’ve encounted throuhout my entire career: “build it and they will come.” In it I discuss the expensive circle of reinvention I see so many companies go through when it comes to their marketing site. I implore you, to think about evolving your marketing site…

Over the last month I have be scoping a large web app for a client that has had me looking into different PHP frameworks for the server side and Javascript frameworks for the front end. Following on from New Years Day Zend2 Hackathon I decided to try out Symfony2. The try out project I decided that the…

At the end of last week, Google announced that they had made a change to their algorithm that harmed sites that contained too much advertising above the fold (the content visible without scrolling when a webpage first loads) and not content. On the surface this is a great move. While they state it will only effect 1%…

It has been sometime since I got the chance to just get into some new code and try out some new tools. New year’s day (and part of then next) was spent trying out Zend Framework 2 beta 2 and Doctrine 2 in a little play project. The project was pretty simple, take a basic ZF2 application (based on Rob…

A campaign has been recently launched by Microsoft to encourage the reduction in use of Internet Explorer 6. The objective is to the usage of IE6 to only 1% by the end of 2011. To track the reduction in use the ie6countdown.com website has been launched. In the year to February 2011 worldwide usage dropped 9% to…

Let me say, before I talk about the recent Safari problem I found, that I am a huge fan of animating drop down menu’s in CSS3 and not relying on javascript. However,  historically, before CSS3 my preferred method of drop menus was using the famous Suckerfish technique. However good old IE6 caused issues with this so instead…