http://www.richardgarside.co.uk Richard's projects is a blog about what I'm doing at the moment to amuse myself. en-gb Copyright 2007 Mon, 22 May 2007 00:08:20 +0000 Mon, 5 Feb 2007 11:36:18 +0000 http://www.garsonix.co.uk http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Aleks Krotoski gave a talk at d-Construct this year called 'Playing the Web: how gaming makes the internet (and the world) a better place'. This is my summary of what she said and the bits of her talk that I liked the best. Aleks talked about http://www.richardgarside.co.uk/post/2008/9/21/playing-the-web-dconstruct-2008.aspx http://www.richardgarside.co.uk/post/2008/9/21/playing-the-web-dconstruct-2008.aspx Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:06:50 GMT When I first went freelance I created some origami business cards that included instructions on how to make the card into an origami crane. They were very well received, but people struggled to follow the instructions and very few were successf http://www.richardgarside.co.uk/post/2008/9/21/origami-video-instructions.aspx http://www.richardgarside.co.uk/post/2008/9/21/origami-video-instructions.aspx Sun, 21 Sep 2008 21:43:01 GMT Steven Johnson gave a talk at d-Construct 2008 on the Urban Web. This is my summary of what was said, and the bits I found most interesting. He told us a fascinating story of the Cholera Epidemic in London and how one outbreak , a map visu http://www.richardgarside.co.uk/post/2008/9/7/urban-web.aspx http://www.richardgarside.co.uk/post/2008/9/7/urban-web.aspx Sun, 7 Sep 2008 22:03:06 GMT When I do a piece of design that involves typography I spend ages choosing the right font. The font that will endow the work with the right feeling and the font that is most similar to the one I've got pictured in my head. This normally takes http://www.richardgarside.co.uk/post/2008/9/2/choosing-a-font.aspx http://www.richardgarside.co.uk/post/2008/9/2/choosing-a-font.aspx Tue, 2 Sep 2008 02:07:37 GMT A List Apart have started doing a yearly survey of web professionals. I read their report last year but I missed my chance to answer the survey. This year I've been quicker of the mark and answered the 18 pages of questions. So, if you wo http://www.richardgarside.co.uk/post/2008/8/8/web-professional-survey.aspx http://www.richardgarside.co.uk/post/2008/8/8/web-professional-survey.aspx Fri, 8 Aug 2008 12:13:04 GMT My last project has been my most high profile since I went freelance. So, I'm excited to announce that it went live this week. The website in question is the new Oxfam International site. I was working with Fortune Cookie , DGF Solutions an http://www.richardgarside.co.uk/post/2008/7/5/the-new-oxfam-website.aspx http://www.richardgarside.co.uk/post/2008/7/5/the-new-oxfam-website.aspx Sat, 5 Jul 2008 11:53:27 GMT They say the future is mobile. I don't think this is going to be true till the data rates become affordable, but perhaps the large touch screen of the iPhone is a taste of things to come. So, I'm quite excited to learn about developing for this http://www.richardgarside.co.uk/post/2008/6/26/developing-for-the-iphone-what-you-need-to-know.aspx http://www.richardgarside.co.uk/post/2008/6/26/developing-for-the-iphone-what-you-need-to-know.aspx Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:06:59 GMT I've never previously had any problems with my site designs working in Safari. So, I was really stumped recently when a site I'm working on looked very wrong in Safari. I'd got used to the power of Firebug and the web developer toolbar, and I was l http://www.richardgarside.co.uk/post/2008/6/6/you-can-debug-in-safari.aspx http://www.richardgarside.co.uk/post/2008/6/6/you-can-debug-in-safari.aspx Fri, 6 Jun 2008 11:26:04 GMT I created this simple app recently to print out all the tables in an SQL Server database. It shows each table's name, description and information about all its columns. I mainly use it when I start on a new project that has an existing databa http://www.richardgarside.co.uk/post/2008/2/27/dbprint.aspx http://www.richardgarside.co.uk/post/2008/2/27/dbprint.aspx Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:56:12 GMT I was getting the following error while developing my doodle flash application using ActionScript 3.0: 1502 A script has executed for longer than the default timeout period of 15 seconds. I tracked the problem down to a piece of code that loop http://www.richardgarside.co.uk/post/2008/1/6/actionscript-xml-timeout.aspx http://www.richardgarside.co.uk/post/2008/1/6/actionscript-xml-timeout.aspx Sun, 6 Jan 2008 00:00:02 GMT