Stay on top of the game

My new years resolution this year is an all encompassing mantra for me to live by: Stay on top of the game. I have a horrible habit of letting things slide: the housework, the bills, my weight, my hobbies, my blog, birthdays, even Christmas. Unless I have plenty of what…

2009 Review and Aims Final Part

I've failed Short, honest and to the point. The last 5 months have been an epic fail for me in terms of my mid-year resolutions and personal goals. I'm not going to go back through them or explain the multitude of things that had to take…

It's been a Very Quiet Month...

It's now been over a month since my last post to this blog. I had promised not to ever let it get longer than 10 days, but this past month has been an exceptional circumstance. I've had a few enquiries regarding part 3 of my YUI…

My Web Hosting Nightmare...

This past week and a half I have "moved home" in more ways than one. Not only have I had to move EVERYTHING out of the house we bought 8 months ago so that electricians can re-wire the entire place, but I have also moved this blog to…

YUI: Javascript Carousel with Custom Navigation - Part 2

1. A Baby Dolphin called Bob 2. Feeding the birds 3. Up close and personal with a tiger…

YUI: Javascript Carousel with Custom Navigation - Part 1

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Symfony: New Static Text Management Plugin

Generally, when I find something interesting I use twitter & delicious to spread the word, but this morning something in my RSS Reader got me excited enough to decide to write a blog post. Thomas Rabaix has hit the nail on the head with his latest offering: Wording is not…

2009 Review and Aims Part II

On the first of June I published a summary of my aims for the rest of the year. The plan was that these were 6 month goals, but that I had a cheeky extra month to start working towards them, test them out and see how realistic they were. So…