I thought I would write a quick rundown of my first Barcamp expe­ri­ence from the perspec­tive of the non Devel­oper or Designer in the room. I tried to hop around the talks to a vari­ety of topics some of direct inter­est to my role in Marker and some quite new or chal­leng­ing. First talk of the […]

Each year, Microsoft hosts an annual web confer­ence to cele­brate all that is web, from design, through UX to devel­op­ment and devices. This year’s event has been hotly antic­i­pated as the big reveal around Windows Phone Series 7 and Inter­net Explorer 9. This post however is focused on Windows Phone 7. About a year ago (yep, […]

What would you prefer me to do? Spend my time hack­ing around issues in older tech­nolo­gies like Inter­net Explorer 6 or would you like that time spent making the site look the best that it can on better desk­top browsers, as well as on the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Black­berry and a whole host of […]

People talk­ing about the future, the idea of collab­o­ra­tion and giving back to the world.

Note: This arti­cle is repub­lished from Prac­ti­cal eCom­merce The orig­i­nal creator of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, dreamed of an infor­ma­tion space that was open to every­one on the planet. But like many dreams, imag­i­na­tion took over and the vision became layered with road­blocks that effec­tively brought down the shut­ters for many users. Acces­si­bil­ity returns […]

Have a look at the new face of the Star­line website. www.starline.co.nz

from the maker of the film Helvetica comes Objec­ti­fied. I can’t wait till it hits screens in New Zealand. Check it out for yourself

It’s that time of the year again when the Moun­tain Dew Road Tour hits all the great summer hot spots for fun, games and give aways. The Dew Trailer is cruis­ing your favorite holi­day hang out with a wicked prize pack up for grabs, includ­ing an Xbox360 console and heaps of games, a Samsung 37” […]

The eyes of the world will be on the US elec­tions on Tues­day, however there is another elec­tion happen­ing this week here in New Zealand, if you live here you might have heard about it. I decided to put my geek hat on, and look at how the three main parties (based on current polling), […]