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My Back end is bigger than your back end

I posted a very simple question to a web development/designer mailing list today. We've got a new product in development and I thought that I'd do a little research on what UI's people liked the best from the current crop of online applications...

Microsoft’s marketing on LSD?

A part of me admires them for the quirkiness and obvious "out of the box thinking" (lol), but really I can't even bring myself to read it fully. You decide have a look at "Source Force and Amazing Friends

Web design breakdown

James over at Igeek just mailed me this... Almost spot on me thinks... lol.

Who says Sam Sethi is unemployable?

The owner of the now defunct Blognation site, Sam Sethi, thought until now as totally unemployable; has been spotted in London at his new company:

Why whybasecampsux.org erm… sux

It’s easy to criticise and find fault with almost any web site on the Internet. The design is wrong, the information isn’t organised correctly, the code is poor. There are no shortage of areas in which to mount an attack. However, when a product does exactly what it says on the tin, it’s quite difficult to be constructive about your thoughts. The web site whybasecampsux.org is a perfect example of just this.

Take the edge off these cold winter nights

As I’m watching telly I’m feeling very chilly; and it’s not even December yet!

Demolish my school

I’m not sure if this is what Mark meant when he suggested I should post something to Ok Cool, but I just had to link to this crank call made by a young Irish girl asking to knock her school down.

How to squeeze in 3 episodes of prison break before your laptop battery dies

It is indeed possible to watch 3 episodes of prison break before your laptop battery gives out. Here’s a few tips, some blatantly obvious and some… well, pretty obvious also… but here we go:

Captcha Pussy

We started to get quite a lot of comment spam, it was one of those problems that we knew would come sooner or later. We thought that it was better to get something up and then refine it later…

Facebook API - Random Friend Photo

I’ve built my first Facebook app Random Friend Photo – it’s really simple, it just shows you a random picture from one of your friend’s photo albumns. You can then do the usual Facebook stuff such as comment on the picture.

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