http://www.davidjones.org A blog on the use of technology at home and at work (and some other stuff) Sun, 01 Feb 2009 21:49:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I blogged yesterday about how useful it would be to be able to read RSS feeds when out of coverage on the London Underground. I'm hoping that a Google Gears-enabled version of Google Reader Mobile is not far away. That reminded me of the stories that have been in the press ... http://www.davidjones.org/2008/04/21/mobiles-on-the-tube/ Nick Piggott blogged last week about low consumer take-up levels of interactivity. He cited examples of "press the red button" opportunities during ad breaks on satellite television and URL calls-to-action in radio adverts. When people are either enjoying what they were already doing or busy with something else (such as driving ... http://www.davidjones.org/2008/04/20/reading-underground/ Two months ago, the BBC relaunched their homepage and started the journey to giving their whole website a more consistent look and feel. The homepage has been warmly received, with its widgets, personalisation, Web 2.0 look and feel, accessibility, standards compliance and, of course, a Flash version of the BBC ... http://www.davidjones.org/2008/04/19/the-bbcs-website-house-style/ Like most people, I find having to maintain user names and passwords for dozens, if not hundreds, of different websites a tad tedious. I also suffer the hassle of having one of the commonest-names on the planet. No website ever has davidjones, or something logical like that, available by the ... http://www.davidjones.org/2008/04/06/openid-enabled/ I've been a Facebook addict for some time, and I've recently got back into using Twitter. I think my resurgent interest in Twitter has arisen from it breaking a critical mass among my more geeky friends. It also makes me feel popular, as I've one from getting one or two ... http://www.davidjones.org/2008/03/29/twitter-facebook-and-twittersync/ Heathrow's not-so-shiny Terminal 5 has been in the news a fair bit over the last few days, and for all the wrong reasons. What lessons can we learn for projects of our own? 1. People are the most important part of any project Initial reports suggest that the day one issues were less ... http://www.davidjones.org/2008/03/29/what-lessons-from-lhr-t5-for-it-project-managers/ Naming conventions are very useful in business IT. Most organisations have a convention for server names and user logons, and anyone who develops much software tends to have conventions for naming variables, fields and functions. Naming conventions can also be useful away from the office. Being in possession of mildy ... http://www.davidjones.org/2008/03/17/organising-itunes/ I studied Chemistry at University. The beer has killed too many brain cells since then, and I think I'd struggle to pass my GCSE. I do recall, however, that scientists were particularly fond of laws, and if you discovered something you got to name it after yourself. Boyle had a ... http://www.davidjones.org/2008/03/16/joness-first-law/ Well, I've finally relaunched my blog. I'm not sure why. It seems the trendy thing these days, to have a blog... although, I'm probably about five years too late to this particular bandwagon. Hopefully, this one will last more than the week or two of its predecessor. Presumably, it is a ... http://www.davidjones.org/2008/03/15/hello-world/