Front-end development
Internet Explorer 6 z-index bug
Internet Explorer has a minor bug with z-index that often crops up when you have an element which is displayed as an overlay on top of other elements (e.g. lightboxes, drop-down menus a...
Journal
Vector maps of
Great Britain and Ireland
.ai and .eps files for your designing pleasure
Fun With Friends
Documentary series part 1 of 3 looking at the new Crackdown
Design
Art-directed blogging
For the past year or so I've been wanting to rework my blog, inspired by sites like Jason Santa Maria's fantastic art-directed blog and Khoi Vinh and Liz Danzico's A Brief Message. A co...
General
New blog
It's 2am and I've done the stupid thing of launching my new blog, custom CMS and all. Obviously, things are breaking. I'll try to fix the big ones in the morning, but if you've already found the n...
Night at the Museum
Design Museum, London. 24th January 2010
Front-end development
A List Apart Survey 2009
The annual A List Apart Survey 2009 is live. If you work on the web, fill it in.
Design
Gumtree beta launched
The culmination of a summer's work, today we set live a beta test to start testing changes we're making at Gumtree. A small proportion of people will be automatically included in the test, with t...
General
Passenger / mod_rails and symlinks
Setting up a Rails app (the rather spiffy Retrospectiva) to run using Phusion Passenger today, I came across a fun problem where the app kept throwing 500 errors. The Rails production.log was empty...
Progressively-enhanced Google Maps for your website
Start with a static image that switches for a dynamic map when Javascript is available.