Five and Lime

10 Reasons You Should Try Django

Here are my slides from my talk at BathCamp 2008. I thought I only had about 15 minutes so didn't include any code examples. In the end slots for 40 minutes so I could have gone into more detail. That said it seemed to work quite well and a good ...

BathCamp 2008

Today sees the first ever BarCamp in Bath, cleverly titled BathCamp. Props to Mike Ellis and co for organising the event. Carsonified are sponsoring breakfast so it's an early doors trip to our local Sainsbury's for hot pastries and other essential nourishment. It looks set to be a great day with ...

The Mattinator

Yesterday was the end of an eventful week at Carsonified. We set ourselves the challenge of building a web app in four days. The whole process was blogged over at www.carsonfied.com and the end result is Matt (Multi Account Twitter Tweeter). Essentially it allows you to post the same message ...

Carsonified Fuel Conference

On Friday 13th June a bunch of us from Carsonified descended on RIBA in Lonon for our first ever FUEL conference. It was the first time we had run an event with this type of content and I felt it went really well. Despite having to follow the boys form ...

Home Made Pizza

Over the last few weeks I have been attempting to perfect my home made pizza skills. It all started a couple of weekends ago when the fridge was bare apart from a few vege's and cheese. The only issue was a distinct lack of yeast. As it turned out this ...

My First Carson Workshop

Last Thursday (May 1st 2008) I ran my first ever full day workshop for Carsonified (AKA Carson Workshops). "How to build a PHP5 web app in a day" took place at the Carsonified HQ in Bath and welcomed ten attendees from around the UK. As I mentioned on the day ...

I am speaking at Fuel!

Yesterday Carsonified launched a new conference called Fuel. The strapline line is "Powering your business with the new web" and I am down to speak. Whilst other Carsonified events focus heavily on web design and development Fuel is aimed at entrepreneurs and marketers who want to get to grips with ...

Yahoo to index Microformats

ReadWriteWeb today announced that Yahoo would be indexing Microformats. This is great news in the move towards achieving the semantic web. I came across Microformats when reading Andy Clarke's book "Transcending CSS" and have attempted to implement then on projects since then. This web site makes extensive use of hFeed, ...

FOWA Recollections

The daily postings from FOWA Miami which I had intended to write just didn't happen. I had good intentions but then the workshops, conference, parties and the odd margarita put pay to that, not that I am complaining. Instead I thought I would post some observations from our six days in ...

Miami Day #01

The first major Carsonified event of the year is "The Future of Web Apps" which takes place in Miami Florida and I am lucky enough to be going. The team rendez-vous'd at the office at 4.30 ready to catch the mini-bus to Heathrow. After a short detour to pick up Jo ...