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Some of My Work : Eclectic Dreams
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A Web Design and Development Blog. Who is this guy? Some of My Work. Some of My Work. This page was very out of date. So I deleted most of it! Currently I’m mostly working on Soprano, a mobile-first offline-capable web app for use by librarians. It’s all behind closed doors, but you can see a video of it (in an earlier form) over here. If you’re looking for recent work, see Capita Libraries Blogs. 2012), The Collective Endeavour. 2009) or this very blog. Drop me an email to matt at eclecticdreams.com.
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Web Development Lab : Eclectic Dreams
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A Web Design and Development Blog. Who is this guy? Some of My Work. This page is home to the various experiments that I create from time to time, be they design or coding related. Like so many things it’s a bit out of date…. Currently I’m experimenting with WebGL. Three.js. Is a neat little wrapper library for it. Another simple experiment is using Twitter and jQuery for simple project tracking. Not much more than a concept at the moment. More at the original Project Twitter. More coming soon….
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A Web Design and Development Blog. Who is this guy? Some of My Work. Posts Tagged ‘manifest’. Fun times with Appcache. Wednesday, August 20th, 2014. Offline webapps are… Lets be honest, a great idea marred by a particularly bizarre implementation, poor documentation and more gotchas than I can count. If you’re looking for a solid intro to doing it right, see this great article series from the Financial Times. And A List Apart. Anyway, enough negative, here’s positive things: We have a live system u...
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A Web Design and Development Blog. Who is this guy? Some of My Work. Posts Tagged ‘web’. Tuesday, December 8th, 2015. So, if you’ve been paying attention over the last few years, you’ll have noticed more of the web going encrypted. This is a good thing. It keeps your data more secure and stops proxies and malicious wifi providers eavesdropping or injecting ads into your content. All that changed last year, when Let’s Encrypt. Who I recommend by the way) and can go in and switch to root to install stuff.
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gov.uk : Eclectic Dreams
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A Web Design and Development Blog. Who is this guy? Some of My Work. Posts Tagged ‘gov.uk’. In Praise of Gov.uk. Thursday, November 1st, 2012. Something extraordinary happened a few weeks ago and I felt like I should mark the occasion: The government launched a website. That didn’t suck. And accept pull requests. They set metrics for pages and continually revised and improved. They ran detailed user and accessibility tests. With some interesting results, see their notes on auto-completing search. This is...
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meetup : Eclectic Dreams
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A Web Design and Development Blog. Who is this guy? Some of My Work. Archive for the ‘meetup’ Category. Slides from Multipack Presents – WAI-ARIA Intro. Sunday, February 22nd, 2009. Thanks to everybody who came along to the inaugural Multipack. Presents. My slides of ARIA are below. Wai Aria – An Intro. Thanks to my fellow presenters Bruce. For entertaining talks on HTML 5 and Javascript! And to Campaign Monitor. For the sponsorship (great pizza)! Talking of ARIA : Multipack Presents. Overall I was very ...
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In Praise of Gov.uk : Eclectic Dreams
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A Web Design and Development Blog. Who is this guy? Some of My Work. In Praise of Gov.uk. Thursday, November 1st, 2012. Something extraordinary happened a few weeks ago and I felt like I should mark the occasion: The government launched a website. That didn’t suck. And accept pull requests. They set metrics for pages and continually revised and improved. They ran detailed user and accessibility tests. With some interesting results, see their notes on auto-completing search. This is truly a watershed mome...
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liveblogging : Eclectic Dreams
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A Web Design and Development Blog. Who is this guy? Some of My Work. Archive for the ‘liveblogging’ Category. Liveblogging : Encouraging Student Centred Interaction Online. Friday, January 23rd, 2009. I’m at this wonderful event. For more information see the wiki. My commentary is in brackets tagged – MM. 10:15 – Ruth on Facebook for induction, social cohesion. 10: 22 – Perceived Benefits – meeting people before it started. Managing expectations. 8220;Talking to people makes it more real…”. 10:49 –...
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web-development : Eclectic Dreams
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A Web Design and Development Blog. Who is this guy? Some of My Work. Posts Tagged ‘web-development’. The web will always be a moving target. Wednesday, June 10th, 2015. The future is already here it’s just not very evenly distributed. – William Gibson. But the only constant is change. Yesterday’s cutting edge is todays common baseline. The web moves on with new Browser APIs, new CSS and new HTML elements. HTML 5 becomes HTML 5.1, CSS gets its CSS 4 selectors and ECMAScript reaches v...It arrives in dribs...
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