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Unruly Tech Night – Mini Robot Workshop

Posted by Dan on November 7, 2011 in General stuff, How Tos & Tutorials, Tech Events

Tweet On October 19th I headed off to London for a Tech night with Unruly Media, one of the advertising distributors I work with to bring some of the funkier ads to the blog. I love attending any tech event and particularly love meeting people I work with online and it was a great opportunity [...]

 
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How to use square brackets in WordPress

Posted by Dan on July 31, 2011 in How Tos & Tutorials

Tweet If you have ever tried to use square brackets (e.g. [ and ]) in your posts it can be slightly frustrating when WordPress thinks that it’s a short code and tries to process it or simply remove it. The solution to this is simple! All you need to do is add the HTML code [...]

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How to create a lightbox in CSS3 & HTML 5

Posted by Dan on July 26, 2011 in How Tos & Tutorials

Tweet This video tutorial describes builds on the tutorial I posted previously for how to create an picture gallery and shows how you can build a Lightbox on this to enlarge images in a large form. Tweet Related Posts:No Related Posts

 
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How to use HTML 5′s Feature Detection

Posted by Dan on July 25, 2011 in How Tos & Tutorials

Tweet Here is a great tutorial on how to use Javascript to detect which features of HTML 5 enabling you to detect what the browser supports, so you can provide a good user experience without leaving users on older browsers left out. Tweet Related Posts:No Related Posts

 
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How to use HTML 5 video

Posted by Dan on July 23, 2011 in How Tos & Tutorials

Tweet One of the fantastic new features of HTML 5 is video functionality, this tutorial describes how you can use HTML 5′s video functionality to achieve custom video capabilities, as well as custom controls. Awesome video and well worth checking out! Tweet Related Posts:No Related Posts

 
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FREE Azure Cloud benefits for MSDN subscribers

Posted by Dan on July 22, 2011 in How Tos & Tutorials, Microsoft

Tweet Microsoft’s Windows Azure Platform is an internet-scale cloud computing and services platform hosted in Microsoft data centres. It provides some incredible possibilities for cloud environments and large (and small) scale web projects. Steve “Planky” Plank gives a brief walkthrough on how MSDN subscribers can correctly set themselves up with the Windows Azure Platform, and [...]

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How to make a HTML 5 Canvas Picture Gallery

Posted by Dan on July 21, 2011 in How Tos & Tutorials

Tweet This is a fantastic video which describes how you can use HTML 5′s Canvas to create a picture gallery, as used on Capital FM’s Website. Tweet Related Posts:No Related Posts

 
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Embedding Tweets with Blackbird Pie

Posted by Dan on February 10, 2011 in How Tos & Tutorials, Twitter

Tweet Many blogs will often reference and embed tweets within their articles. Often they do this by simply taking a screenshot of the tweet. However there are some cool tools for embedding the tweets in good old HTML, which brings with it some good benefits; such as maintaining the links and references, enabling visitors to [...]

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