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Firstly, everyone in the office has been feeling guilty that nobody has created a blog since before Christmas. So I've given Sarah the task of making sure someone blogs at least once a week and she's in the process of delegating to the masses. To start everyone off, here's my first blog of the year about something I came across while browsing the technology news that's set to launch imminently.
The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It’s a capable little PC which can be used for many of the things that your desktop PC does, like spread sheets, word-processing and games. It also plays high-definition video. The creators want to see it being used by kids all over the world to learn programming in schools and as a hobby.
Their idea is very simple; to see cheap, accessible, programmable computers everywhere without spending hundreds of pounds on a PC. They want owning a truly personal computer to be normal for children.
I honestly think the device is an insanely excellent idea, the possibilities are endless! You could even go as far as making a robot with this credit card sized computer. I know that this probably isn’t for the faint hearted, but starting at £15 + VAT what more could you buy at that price that could offer as much fun!? Let’s all become programmers!
The Raspberry Pi Foundation is a UK registered charity – For more information visit their website: http://www.raspberrypi.org
Everyone loves a good sweet, especially the classics like the drumstick lolly, the small foam mushrooms, gobstoppers and toffee bon bons! We love making people happy, especially our developers; which is why there is always a handful of sweets at hand in the office for anyone to dip into if they're feeling peckish.
We decided last week to extend this to our fans, clients and friends of the world; we're giving away hundreds of sweets to a selection of our fans who decide to follow us on facebook and twitter. We need more than 1,000 followers by the end of August, and if we reach our target we'll be selecting 100 lucky random winners to receive sweets! You could win anything* from a drumstick lolly to a big bag of rasberry millions! In order for this to happen though we need to reach our target! Simply retweet our tweets, @codeworks mention us and share the love with your friends, the more you share the more chance you have of winning. We'd also love to hear what your favourite past time sweets are! We'll keep you updated with progress!
@codeworks - twitter.com/codeworks
We've made a little progress bar to see far we are away from our target, it updates once every 24 hours!
In short, no. The cookie EU law that was set to start on May 26th 2011 has been deferred for an extra year because many companies are not ready to implement the measures required to inform users visiting their website. Which i have to admit, includes us. This new law requires a user's consent before using cookies. (not the edible crumbly kind)
Cookies are text files stored on your computer while your browsing the internet, they store snippets of information. An example could be a welcome message when you first visit a site, after you close it a cookie is stored so that you don't have to keep clicking the x to remove it every time you re-visit the site. For more information about cookies click here.
The changes are demanded by the European e-Privacy directive.
The section of the directive dealing with cookies was drawn up in an attempt to protect privacy and, in particular, limit how much use could be made of behavioural advertising. This form of marketing involves people being tracked across websites, with their behaviour used to create a profile that dictates the type of adverts they see.
The directive demands that users be fully informed about the information being stored in cookies and told why they see particular adverts. However, the directive is likely to have an impact on the more general use of cookies that remember login details and enable people to speed up their use of sites they visit regularly.
It could mean that once this new law does come into effect, users see many more pop-up windows and dialogue boxes asking them to let sites gather data. It just depends how each company decides how to tackle the issue. I found a really good example of how companies could approach this task on the new Alpha UK Government Website.
For now though, we have another year to come up with solutions that comply with the law but don't make it annoying for the user, personally i believe a browser approach would be a much better way forward as i can guarantee even after another year a lot of companies still won't be ready.
"a more beautiful web is here" - that’s Microsoft's slogan for this new piece of kit, and it means exactly that. It's been a long time coming but it’s fantastic news for us development companies because it means we can start taking advantage of newer technologies which we know the new browsers can support.
On top of the announcement of today's release Microsoft have also launched a campaign to help rid of IE6 www.theie6countdown.com, the same browser which has now been superseded 3 times over yet many companies and organisations still can't find the time to upgrade their systems. I do understand why some organisations find it difficult to keep up with new technologies and updates because of security issues and compatibility worries, but if they never update we can’t create!
If you're a fan of IE, or you’re someone that just clicks the big E because it was already installed on your machine, I thoroughly suggest you take this upgrade for a spin, check out how our website looks, you'll probably notice the animations become much smoother, you may also start to notice hidden secrets start to appear on other websites that were just waiting for this new technology to be released (www.twitter.com). If you're a Firefox or Chrome user its highly likely you won’t touch this download with a barge pole, but to you I say; go and take a sneaky look (I promise I won't tell anyone), I think you'll be pleasantly surprised!
Maybe one day Microsoft will decide to include an auto-update feature in their browser? So we can keep people updated, automatically, or, automagically!
I'm very exhausted, proud to present to you our brand new website! With tons more content, updates, news, tutorials (to come), and extensive portfolio! It's finally a place we can show off exactly what we do and how we do it!
We still have a lot of fans out there for our old design and interactive office so we wanted to make sure it stayed with the site! So if you're missing a bit of monkey madness head over to the homepage and launch the interactive office!
It's been a few months in the making, we wanted to extend upon our flash interactive office from the last design but make it to available to everyone so we delved into jQuery animation and while working with one many great designers we made animation available to the masses, without flash! Go on, try it on your mobile, or your ipad! It's a taster of whats to come inside our great software for 2011.
Thanks for visiting, take a good look around and enjoy the hard work we've spent putting all of this together! Don't forget to become a fan on facebook and follow our twitter as there are definitely more updates to come!
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