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We're hiring
At Gottabet we're looking for a 'web application designer' to join the team. The job entails a range of web dev, from helping design various sections/features of the website to implementing them in...
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YSlow for Firebug
Just spotted (via Simon Willison's blog) that Yahoo! has released an extension for Firebug, called YSlow. The extension adds more performance data to Firebug, grading various speed issues A-F li...
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Getting user feedback - don't make it hard!
I just uninstalled the DivX driver from my PC as it currently doesn't work very well on Vista (slow and pops up with auth requests the first time you open a DivX video). On uninstalling, it opened ...
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IE6 and position:relative (aka: 3 wasted hours of my life)
At Gottabet, we've started to migrate the website to a cleaner, wider layout that I've been working on for the past few months. We started by launching a new homepage and a couple of weeks ago we t...
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Making the customer jump through hoops
Yesterday my brother sent me a file through YouSendIt. As the person receiving the file, all I wanted to do was click the link in the email and have the download start. Instead, I was made to jump ...
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Download-to-own DVDs - how much?
Anyone in the UK has probably seen the adverts for online DVD rental service, LOVEFiLM recently. I saw an ad on a website pointing out that you can also rent console games, which could be cool at t...
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Kudos to Play.com
Waaay back when, I was on the lookout for the next decent FPS to play on the PC and came across S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl. The graphics were stunning and the gameplay looked really int...
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When will online advertisers learn?
With the hype over Web 2.0, it's funny how many online advertisers are still using the same crass techniques of the web's earlier years. Within a minute of each other, I just got hit by three of th...
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It lives!
The top-secret project I've been working on since moving down to London at the end of October had a still-quite-secret launch late last week and now we're ready to tell a few more people. Withou...
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A long, long day
Well, it's 4:34am and I'm just about to go to bed :( Ken and I got back from work quite late (as has been the norm recently, though the still-secret site is very nearly ready to launch now) to f...