Archive for February, 2006

Cotswolds adventuring
Monday, February 27th, 2006

I have just spent a very happy weekend exploring the Cotswolds with my family. I had Friday afternoon off, so we took this as a perfect opportunity to go for lunch at the Bell in Charlbury near where I work, then explore the local villages a little.
We drove up to Islip, the most humorously literal [...]

Nearly there with the ‘permalink-slideshow’
Friday, February 24th, 2006

Well at the risk of too many entries on this permalink-slideshow, here goes another. I have always wanted (since i lost my fear of JavaScript) something that i can cut my teeth on so to speak. A medium-ly complex project to do in JavaScript that I can have fun playing around with, and more importantly [...]

Fixing a few JavaScript slideshow loose ends
Thursday, February 23rd, 2006

As pointed out by Jeremy, my linkable slideshow (v2) needed some work to fix the load order of the page without altering the ‘unobtrusiveness’ of its behaviour.
I opted for Jeremy’s second method; not waiting for the page to load, instead hiding the images and sorting things out later on. Since the slideshow already relied on [...]

Photo sharing
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006

Photo sharing
The Torchbox crew admire Bryans skiing photos in Sip, the classy cocktail bar in Jericho, Oxford.

About
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006

So I decided to restart the ball on its onward trajectory, I’m not a great writer nor will I ever pretend to be, I used to have a blog but then I got distracted.
Having recently graduated from Bath University I now work for Torchbox, a web development company in the Cotswolds. I spend my free [...]

JavaScript slideshow fun
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006

There are things that go smoothly, run like a dream and never complain; there are others that don’t. For me, debugging JavaScript is always one the latter.
I have only recently begun to appreciate the power and fun to be had hacking at javascript, I used to panic at the thought of it. This was until [...]