Posts Tagged 'Social Media'

A quick search on Google for the term ‘Social Media’ currently retrieves over 203,000,000 results. Just before Facebook started to make a name for itself and emerged on the scene back in late 2006 the buzz word on the internet was ‘Web 2.0,’ even then people were quick to chime in with there 10 pence worth and were happy to give you their opinion on the next best thing on the internet. This unfortunate movement also bought with it a hell of a lot of …

I’ve been meaning to do something sporadic and creative for a while now but have never got around to it until now. I decided to challenge myself to build a site (wedeliver.papermashup.com) in under 24hrs from concept and design through to development. The site is a silly idea based on a simple delivery website with the twist of allowing users to deliver their precious package by an animal of their choice, much like we did in the war with carrier pigeons. I started by working …

Is your site reaching audiences that would probably rather content in their native language? we’ll there’s a simple solution which models itself on the popular social sharing site AddThis. TranslateThis developed by Jon Raasch, a front-end web programmer from Portland, OR is a very easy to implement translation solution that uses the Google Language API and AJAX to translate your page content on the fly.
Why is it good?

It has several advantages over using the Google translate widget the main one being that TranslateThis processes the …

As I was traveling home from work tonight reading the London Evening Standard, as I usually do, I couldn’t help but notice the headline: “At 25, I’m not past it at work, I’m ‘before it.” This got me thinking about being a young developer in a fiercely competitive sector and being at the forefront of new technologies. Being young in a field that is so competitive can sometimes have an impact on how others perceive you.
For example. I’m not the kind of guy to …

Thanks to everyone who entered the competition! A good number of you entered and hopefully we’ll run more in the future. Congratulations to, @jamieyork @santanajames @encantado_net
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API Knowledge
A key tool for any budding web developer is API knowledge. It’s good to familiarise yourself with a variety of application interfaces. I started out using the Twitter REST API with PHP and CURL when twitter first launched the API to basically get a users tweets, pretty simple now I look back, but at the time it was the first time i’d done such a thing. As the development of social media continues this will increasingly open up opportunities to develop more and more …

Learning a new programming language can be daunting to say the least. I’ve recently cracked it when it comes to jQuery. I wouldn’t say Im a pro by any stretch of the imagination but I can successfully build applications. It wasn’t an easy ride learning a new syntax, I’m going to run over a few tips and techniques that i found useful learning both jQuery and PHP.
Take Time To Learn
In order to get into your new programming language you need time and commitment to perfect …

I wrote a post a while back when I purchased my iobridge module which you can use to control switched and sensor. After that post I had my module rigged up in my office at home just monitoring the room temperature and ambient light hourly, I wasn’t sure what i could do with this data at the time so using the Google Ajax API I displayed the data using 2 graphs purely as a bit of fun. Now i’ve decided to take it a stage …

There i was settling in for a night of coding when i check nettuts.com for some design inspiration and bang my site’s featured! What a pleasant suprise, I even made it to the thumbnail of the post which im quite pleased about.
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I haven’t been posting as regularly as i’d hoped as im working on a project that’s just eating all my time right now! …

If you type in a URL to a web site in your browser and that URL returns data in a structured format, then a basic API is already in place. For example, when you access an RSS feed, you’re essentially using an API. You type in a structured URL “asking” the server for information in RSS format and the server (usually) spits out structured data ready for your feed reader to parse.
To take this to the next level, you’ll also want to allow developers to …

I thought I’d share this great little site for displaying website thumbnails for free and unbranded! http://snapcasa.com/
Move over Websnapr, Snapcasa’s coming through!
Websnapr has somewhat dominated the market over the years with their thumbnail generation service as they boast having served over 1 billion thumbnails. However for non payed customers you have to put up with the Websnapr branding on every thumbnail served, and the basic service  only allows you 100,000 credits. SnapCasa served 42 Million free snapshots prior to releasing their version 2 site. The …

Here are a few web trends that i think we will see emerge in 2009.

Firstly IE6 must die this year right? I’m sure every web developer would be happy to see the backside of IE6. There’s a fairly good reason why as well. IE8 is now in the second phase of public beta, so if all goes well i predict that it should be released at the end of this year, meaning that at least everyone stuck in the past can upgrade to IE7 . …