Stuff about the World Wide web
Submitted by elksie on Wed, 26/01/2011 - 8:33pm
Submitted by elksie on Sat, 03/10/2009 - 10:45pm
In the past three days I've been to two conferences. One was the Future of Web Apps (FOWA) conference in Kensington, the second was the Talk About Local Unconference 2009 at Staffordshire University.
It's going to take a bit of time to write up so here's the first part, devoted to the first day at Fowa...
FOWA 2009 - the Future of Web Apps
There is nothing as inspirational as the story of success, or so goes the theory behind trade and business conferences.
Submitted by elksie on Fri, 04/09/2009 - 10:31pm
Submitted by elksie on Mon, 31/08/2009 - 12:47am

Syntax Era - Looking forward to watching a BBC4 comedy in October based on the "race for home computer supremacy" between Chris "BBC Micro" Curry - played by Martin Freeman - Clive "Sinclair" Sinclair (Alexander Armstrong).
Submitted by elksie on Fri, 14/08/2009 - 9:31am
Submitted by elksie on Tue, 11/08/2009 - 2:55pm
Submitted by neuromancer on Thu, 07/05/2009 - 10:31pm
Submitted by neuromancer on Sat, 02/05/2009 - 5:26pm
Worried about the spread of Swine Flu across the globe? Need to see where the latest confirmed cases are breaking out. Fear no more, here's a Google Map that I found showing the latest cases. It might not necessarily be the fastest to update, but it's interesting to see the cases as they build up. Link courtesy of www.softsailor.com World Wide Real Time Swine Flu Map
Submitted by elksie on Sat, 25/04/2009 - 5:24pm
I've just installed two new modules to make my work on this site a little easier.
The first is a text editor called FCKeditor which is much more user-friendly and less code demanding than the default interface.
The second is an image module called IMCE which makes uploading pictures far simpler than the existing method of uploading an image by FTP and then creating an <img> tag.
Here's an example of an image:
Submitted by elksie on Mon, 06/04/2009 - 10:06pm
Isn't Google Docs just fantastic as a web-based tool? In recent months, the suite of applications has gone from remarkably useful in doing my job, to almost indispensable.
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