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Posts from the category Internet

  • Standards-based, cross-platform web development is the future

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    If you’re a web developer, checking that you use the standards of the web and valid code will make your life infinitely easier. By planning now for a standards-based future and focusing on HTML5 and its associated technologies, you’ll be building for the future: not just saving yourself time, but also making sure that the…

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  • WordPress function: getting attachment and thumbnail captions for a post

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    It’s rare that I post anything heavily internet-related or even extremely code-geeky, so please skip this entry if it’s of no interest! I was asked today if I knew how to get the captions of Post attachments in WordPress and so I knocked up the following two functions; one which returns an array of all

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  • The Royal Wedding on a budget

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    The crushing disappointment of the new microsite for the British Royal Wedding is a shameful excuse of a website, which could so easily have been so much better.

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  • Responsive design using CSS and Javascript

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    Re-programming my online portfolio using the most up-to-date techniques possible.

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  • New role with web agency !frappant

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    After two and a half years with the Burson-Marsteller Crossmedia team in Bern, I’ve decided to return to my roots as a programmer and technical developer and I’m moving across town to work for web agency !frappant from 1st April 2011.

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  • Technical case study: New websites for Burson-Marsteller EMEA

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    My biggest work project in 2010 was the re-building of the wide network of websites for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region of Burson-Marsteller.

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  • Where did all the lovely big photos go?

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    Regular visitors will note that the new year saw two changes here at Permanent Tourist: namely, the reduction in size of images in articles and the re-naming of the section you’re in now to “Blog”.

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  • Feeding the needs of fickle fans

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    A report in U.S. advertising publication Advertising Age a little while ago highlighted the interesting fact that for many companies, a presence in social media network Facebook is becoming statistically more popular than their own brand websites. However this change of tack may not necessarily be the best solution for businesses keen to promote their…

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  • coll8 Social Media Streaming

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    coll8, named as an abbreviation of the English word “collate”, allows users of the WordPress publishing software to provide website visitors with a page which collates all of their social media streams into one place: from Twitter and Flickr to Facebook, Vimeo, YouTube and Google Reader.

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  • Work project honoured by Anthrazit magazine

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    A website which I re-developed and re-launched during 2009 was awarded as one of the “Best 200 Swiss Websites of the Year”.

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  • The Long and Short of It

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    A summary of how I feel about sharing and distributing content in the internet, how one should integrate and use RSS feeds and summaries, and why my perfect solution may not be your perfect solution.

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  • Categorization bug in WordPress

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    I’ve been using WordPress for years and in the main, it’s a fantastic piece of collaborative software. However, the fact that the standalone version which is installed on one’s own server is supported mainly by community effort instead of a dedicated team means that when a particularly unusual bug crops up, it’s difficult to get

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  • Survey of internet access speeds

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    I order to better cover the needs of my visitors, I’m carrying out a simple survey of how you visit the site.

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  • Why opening new browser windows for external links is pointless

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    Don’t you just hate it when you’ve been using the internet for a little while and you have a mass of browser windows to battle with? Where the hell did that website go, that you were looking at earlier? Both of these annoyances are entirely unnecessary, and this article explains why.

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  • SprainTV

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    Manuel Reinhard (also known through his personal website and Twitter stream as “sprain”) has recently launched a regular video podcast in review of the week’s happenings in the Swiss internet scene.

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  • Ten years of push-button publishing

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    On 23rd August 2009, the ten year anniversary of a web service called Blogger passed with barely a blip; only a small handful of news reports show up at Google’s news aggregating service and the world at large has paid little notice to the milestone.

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  • Cross-domain Javascript calls

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    A technical article covering the use of Javascript functions and files across multiple web domains.

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  • Social media outages today

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    As I take a moment or two out of my day, Twitter is currently unavailable and has been so for over an hour.

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