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A few weeks ago I was approached by WhyCommunicate, a company run by a friend of mine, who were hoping to use the newly released Google Analytics API to provide client's with analytics information in their existing extranet. I loved the ambition of it, and I hadn't worked with an API before so I thought this was a great venture for me and went for it. You can see the finished result over here in ...

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Things have been busy in my niche of the realm of men. I've nearly finished my project involving the Google Analytics API so I should be writing about that soon, but in the mean time I just thought I'd write a post of thanks. I'm just a small-time developer who is hoping to make a living out of his one-time hobby, so I am always appreciative of whatever support I get. This site is a labour of love: always has been, ...

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"We don't read text, we scan it": Don't Make Me Think, Krug, 2006. The web is an interesting medium for communicating a message to a user. Compared with say, print, the methods employed to do so are different chiefly because the web has that extra dimension: interaction, hence the reason that translation from one medium to another is often not as successfull as you might think. The other element that the web often has is the ability to travel through ...

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The worst client I have ever worked for is myself. A dozen times since I mentioned I was going to do a redesign I've gone through the same process: get a brain wave for a site structure and design, spend countless hours dodging other work while I code it into XHTML and CSS, then spend so long looking at the design while I'm doing other things that I get sick of it. This one was the exception. I actually did the ...

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Today (April 9th) is CSS Naked Day, all day long. Enjoy the ugly. (This all validates too funnily enough! Checked the validator yesterday for the first time for a long time. Probably not SEO friendly though eeek)

The Beeb have just launched their new site, and boy is it fantastic. I was sitting there looking at the rugby news, and presto as the page loads I notice a different layout. Very, very good work. Take a look.

Never seen it played like this before. Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones is a farmer, who sells his own produce under the Black Farmer (tm) brand, who one day realized that he was in fact the only black farmer in England. Thanks to good PR and interest in his situation, he has made a bundle, even starting a blog about it all. Woah. I wonder what I could blag being a 1/8 Welsh, 1/8 Irish, 1/4 Greek, 3/8 ...

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Slow week for my brain at the moment, so enjoy some links in the meantime: 24Ways: The advent calendar for web developers, every day up until the 24th a tutorial is posted, and some of them are even useful. I make joke! FreeRice: Nice little charity thingy-ma-bob. You have to guess the meaning of words, and for every word you get right, 20 grains of rice are donated. And it's not a simple as you think, as the word list ...

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