Matthew Bull

web development

Archive for July, 2008

OpenSearch

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

One really useful thing I came across at IWMW 2008 was the ability to put your own site's search into the browser's list of search tools. You know, that little google box in Firefox where you can in fact bring down a list of other search engines. That can have ...

IWMW 2008 - day 2

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

So, we're into day 2 of the IWMW 2008 conference at Aberdeen. Day 1 passed with much alcohol, dancing, Aberdonian 'furry boots', oh and some web stuff too. I think the highlight was an excellent opening talk by Derrick McClure from the Centre for Linguistic Research at Aberdeen. It was a ...

IWMW 2008

Monday, July 21st, 2008

Off to Aberdeen today! Hopefully this year's conference bag will be even better than last year's...

symfony 1.1 and 1.2

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

symfony 1.1 went live just a month or so ago, and in the relatively short history of symfony is somewhat of a revolution. In fact, the shift in a minor version number belies the effort and heartache that seems to have gone into the newer version, and one wonders at the ...