The Learning Curve
- 07.Nov
- RefreshDublin
Last week there were some fantastic web events happening in Dublin which was a pleasure to see and an indication that the Irish web community is alive and kicking more than ever. One which stood out for me was the first RefreshDublin organised by Niamh Redmond. Part of and inspired by the Refresh Cities movement, [...]
- 26.Jun
- Adding .FLV MIME Type in IIS
I’ve recently started working with Flash a lot more and while its proving good fun, I had forgotten how frustrating it can sometimes be. I recently created a flash video player from scratch and while it worked wonderfully on my computer and local server in work, it was flat out refusing to load the video [...]
- 11.Mar
- Accessibilty @ FOWA Dublin
Last Friday was great day. It was my first experience of the FOWA event held by the good folks at Carsonified. I had been hugely looking forward to it and was not dissapointed with some fantastic speakers. David Heinemeier Hansson from 37 Signals was the big draw and he didn’t dissapoint with a typically [...]
- 04.Mar
- New beginnings
Well, who’d have thunk it but I’ve good news! I’ve decided to buck the trend in the economy and smile in the face of all this doom and gloom because as of Monday I am starting a great new job! It was this time last month that I was still reeling a bit having been [...]
Quick Post
- 03.May
- The 4 Peaks Challenge
In a moment of health fitness madness myself and a group of 5 friends have decided to climb the 4 highest peaks of Ireland over 3 days as part of The Focus Ireland 4 Peaks Challenge.
The most important thing about it is that we are raising money for Focus Ireland, a really important charity and [...]-
- 10.Nov
- Build find No.1!
he lovely Jessica Hische! On arriving late up to Build this evening in anticipation of the great speakers tomorrow, I sadly missed a talk being given by a very talented illustrator and typographer Jessica Hische. I’m bold enough to say that I had never seen her work before, however I decided to check out some [...]
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- 01.Mar
- Lolly and Cooks
Sometimes you get a real gem of a small project to work on and the new site for Lolly and Cooks was definitely one of those times. Lolly and Cooks’ cupcakes have long been one of my favourite guilty pleasures so when they asked me to do the site I was delighted. I was given [...]
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- 19.Jan
- 24 hour challenge
This post is long overdue so I’m going to keep it very quick and simple. A few months ago I was part of a fantastic experience, namely to conceive, design and build a fully functional website for a charity in 24 hours. It was called 24theWeb and was organised by the talented Stewart Curry. I [...]
ALL ABOUT RACHEL
Rachel is a freelance web designer and developer based in Dublin. She is passioniate about making beautiful, innovative websites. She is also on a constant learning curve so this blog is an example of her mutterings on learning, creating and all those in between. Her spelling is appalling, she apologises for that. Rachel also wondering why people write these things in the third person?
TWEET TWEET
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- Thinking of treating myself to one of these http://amzn.to/9Mzpf1 2010-07-05
- @davymac 3G. I held off upgrading to the 3GS in anticipation of the iPhone4 coming out... tempted to reninstall ios3 until i get the iphone4 in reply to davymac 2010-07-05
- @davymac ok "disaster" is probably over the top, but "painfully slow and annoying" isn't. rant over :) 2010-07-05
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IMAGE OF THE WEEK
This time last year I was preparing to go to Coachella Music Festival in the Californian desert, possibly the best festival I've ever been to. It was so good that this was my second visit and as usual the lineup was to die for. Roger Waters playing Dark Side of the Moon, Prince and The National were some of the highlights. However, Portishead was the pinicle for me that year. Back after a ten year break, they blew the crowd away and the backdrop of imagery was incredible which added to the atmosphere. This was one of the images that I captured of Beth. She is both the head in the background and the tiny spec standing singing. Oh how I wish I could be there again this year!
COMMENTS
- Rachel: Thanks a mil Chris! It was a pleasure to work with you too. Hope everything is going well!
- Chris: We think the site is awesome too! Thanks again to the magnificent Team C! Chris
- Rachel: Thanks Claudiu! Definitely get involved next year!
- Claudiu: And you did a great job Rach! Hope I can make it for this year, must be a great experience
- Nick McGivney: And as if by magic!