Archive for the 'torchbox' Category

Going freelance and moving to Brighton
Sunday, August 19th, 2007

These few months hold some pretty exciting changes for me and Simon. Monday of last week was my last day at Torchbox, I have spent a very happy two years there but the time was right for me to move on.
As of the 10th of September I will be working as a freelancer, available to [...]

So that was Oxford Geek Night 2
Friday, April 13th, 2007

The second Oxford Geek Night last night went well and was by all accounts a success. We came across various hiccups in setting up but several totally ingenious solutions and a few friendly geeks later we were all set. The talks were great, and in my mind they really made the event what it was. So, [...]

Talks for Oxford Geek Nights announced
Thursday, April 5th, 2007

The talks for the forthcoming Oxford Geek Night event have now been announced. You might already know that Jon Hicks and James Webster are lined up for two great looking keynotes on Typography and Amazon web services respectively, which is very exciting. What you might not know yet is the fantastic line-up we have for [...]

Hacking del.icio.us with Python
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

I wrote this a few weeks ago, it’s a hack for del.icio.us to scratch an itch that I had. At work we have a communal del.icio.us account so that if one of us finds a link we think might be interesting or informative to the others we can post it, together with our name as [...]

Oxford Geek Night 2 call for proposals
Monday, February 26th, 2007

As there are limited places available for microslots and demos at the forthcoming Oxford Geek Night in April, I have set up a wufoo form (I really love wufoo!) to manage talk submissions.
If you have a talk proposal please fill it out the form below or go to the wufoo form:
Fill out my Wufoo form!
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Oxford Geeks hit the media!
Sunday, February 25th, 2007

It looks like the last of the Oxford Geek Nights has caused quite a stir in the media recently. I'm not entirely sure how the Oxford Mail initially came across the story but it got half a page of coverage in last Wednesday's edition (see online version or archived online version) As a result of this [...]

First Oxford Geek Night a success!
Thursday, February 8th, 2007

Thanks to everyone who came last night. I really hope everyone had a fantastic evening, we had some interesting talks and some cool demos. It was pretty tricky to judge numbers from where I was sat, but I have been told that we had over 100 people at one point, which is great!
The running order [...]

Line-up for Oxford Geek Night
Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

The debut event for Oxfordshire based geeks draws ever closer, this coming Wednesday at the Jericho Tavern! As you may have already read, the doors to the upstairs bar will open at 8pm and the talks will then start at about 8:30.
We now have a fantastic line-up for the evening, starting with two 15 minute [...]

Oxford Geek Nights
Sunday, January 28th, 2007

A note to anyone in or around the Oxford area on Wednesday the 7th February, or even to those willing to travel …. The first Oxford Geek Night will be held at 8pm upstairs in Oxfordshire’s fine venue of “The Jericho Tavern”.
For more information of the event and directions, please see the official site

Oxford Geek [...]

Using hasLayout to fix bugs in IE
Saturday, December 2nd, 2006

Recently at work I came across a particularly tricky IE bug that I have seen a couple times now. I thought I would share the solution since it wasn’t immediately obvious.
On the new Business in the community site (just launched by Torchbox) there is a timeline facility to show information about different events in Business, [...]