Si Jobling

Fierce Disco Remixed

Fierce Disco Remixed was released this morning - the second Fierce Disco compilation available as a digital download on . Over the last five years, Fierce Angels have been releasing a great collection of Fierce Disco compilations, all compiled by the main man Mark Doyle and packaged up into a stunning ...

Upgrading WordPress via SSH

WordPress is quite a popular open source CMS that is often praised for its ease of use and simple installation. Like most open source applications, WordPress tends to have upgrades every few months to improve security, stability and the underlying framework. In recent versions of WordPress, this process has been extremely ...

IMDB Vote History as RSS

Over the last few years, I've been using IMDB to keep a record of the movies I've watched by giving them a rating out of ten using the simple star rating widget at the top of each movie page. By rating each movie, I have managed to create quite an extensive ...

OSX Bevel Effect in Fireworks

The Apple OSX bevelled effect isn't exactly original now but, nonetheless, there are times when the style suits your design needs, especially when wireframing OSX/iPhone applications. I've found a neat little method of creating the bevel effect in Fireworks which you can reuse quite easily: Select the object you want to apply ...

One Phat DJ joins Lifted Radio

After nearly four years of podcasting, sharing the latest funky house tunes in their mixed-up glory, One Phat DJ has finally secured a regular radio slot on internet radio station Lifted Radio. The first radio show will be broadcast on Saturday 9th May 2009 from 4-6pm (British Summer Time) live on ...

Shorter URLs with u.nu

URL shortening services are becoming quite popular now micro-blogging services like Twitter have gone mainstream. Yesterday, I discovered yet another URL shortener service from called u.nu - probably the shortest domain possible for such a service. Unfortunately, u.nu don't offer a bookmarklet directly on their website so I created one myself. Drag and ...

Fierce Angel Radio - Week 16

Following last week's show with Mark Doyle presenting the latest house tunes from his record box, here's Week 16 of Fierce Angel Radio show for you to download and listen to at your leisure. Don't forget Fierce Disco 3 is out now, available on triple CD from Amazon for £9.98 or ...

House Music on Twitter

Twitter has really kicked off over recent months with it gaining mainstream appeal after Stephen Fry discussed it on Jonathan Ross' evening show and now Oprah JUMPING ON THE BANDWAGON. I've been using the service since it's early days (hence the lucrative 2-letter nickname @Si) and in that time, made some ...

Multipack Presents: Being Green

Multipack Presents: Being Green is the second in the series of Multipack Presents events, happening this coming Saturday back at the sexy offices of One Black Bear. After the first extremely successful event concentrating on Emerging Standards featuring some interesting insights into HTML5, ARIA and other emerging standards, this time around ...

Fierce Angel Radio - Week 15

Regular visitors of this website will know, I'm a huge advocate of the record label Fierce Angels. Mark Doyle has successfully managed to migrate his trademark style of dance and house music he founded in Hed Kandi into another fine brand which has gone from strength to strength over the ...

Funky House Finesse 2 (April 2009)

According to Feedburner statistics, the first Funky House Finesse was downloaded over 10,000 times - that is more than double of any single episode of the One Phat DJ Podcast. It just goes to show that funky house is still hugely popular online and there is a market for it. The ...

Fierce Disco 3 from Fierce Angel

It's that time of the year again when the guys at Fierce Angels pull together the funkiest disco sounds in club land into their annual Fierce Disco compilation. Fierce Disco 3 is compiled by the man himself, Mark Doyle, with 33 of the finest sexiest disco house tunes, all available as ...

Download the Formula One schedule with F1 Calendar

The Formula One calendar commences in Sydney, Australia next week. If you already knew that, chances are you'll be quite interested the latest addition to the KickOff series of sports calendar web apps... F1 Calendar is a quick way to check Formula One race times and dates for the entire season, ...

Profile Based Email Signatures with Exchange

I worked with a colleague this week to create a standardardised email signature for all the users on our internal Microsoft Exchange. The signature template was already defined so it was just a case of tapping into trhe LDAP to extract each user's individual profile and use the data in there ...

Red Nose Avatars for Comic Relief

Red Nose Day is happening this coming Friday. For those who are complete unaware of the event, it is a huge charity event organised by Comic Relief and fronted by the BBC that uses comedy to raise money for worthy causes in Africa and the UK. The concept was founded by writer ...

Cooper Art Gallery

Since the family acquired Cooper Gallery in Bideford just before Christmas, we've all been working extremely hard over the last few months to build the business up from near-to-nothing. My mother - a very creative and ambitious woman keen to start her own business - had the responsibility of managing the ...

Removing HTML from RSS Feeds

Sometimes, you want to use an RSS feed as a data source. This may be for publishing on your website or for mashing up data with another service. Recently, I've been building a corporate intranet with the functionality to embed RSS feeds within the content. It's a great way of generating ...

Funky House Finesse - March 2009

With the One Phat DJ Podcast finally laid to rest after December's "Encore", it's time to start something a little different. Funky House Finesse is a new programme of mixes produced by myself, One Phat DJ, with the same intention of promoting the finest in funky house music. Each 90 minute show ...

Last.fm Loved Tracks on Twitter

If you're an avid user of social networks like Twitter and Last.fm, you may have wanted to automatically update Twitter with any tracks you love on Last.fm. I've noticed a few solutions around for tweeting your recently played tracks but I'm not a fan of this - it dilutes the quality ...

5 Famous Fumbles

(Disclaimer: Before anything, I toyed with the idea of using the obvious F word in this post but felt it would be more appropriate (and safe for work) to use a more... innocent F-word.) Have you got five famous people you're allowed to sleep with should the extremely rare opportunity ever ...

Multipack Presents: Emerging Standards

During the January Multipack meeting, we discussed the idea of putting on a formal event, ideally presenting a hot topic to raise interest outside of the 'pack. Matt had planned to give a brief overview of his work with web accessibility in the emerging standard ARIA but, due to lack of ...

Digital TV has made children impatient

Photograph by Ian Chase Television has changed drastically over the last twenty years. When I was growing up in the 1980s, there were just four channels to choose from; BBC1, BBC2, ITV and (as of November 1982) Channel 4. The majority of children's television was to be found on BBC1 and ITV ...

Si Loves Twitter

Yesterday, I experimented with my favourite Web 2.0 fad, Twitter. I've been a persistent Twitter user since registering back in November 2006 - way before the masses joined in, may I add - and must admit I have a tendency to use Twitter as a place to rant and vent my ...

A Little Fierce III

Just before Christmas, I received an nice early present from my friends at Fierce Angels HQ. I had been speaking with Mark Doyle and his better half about upcoming releases last month so wasn't completely unsurprised to open the envelope to find in all it's glory the latest compilation, A ...

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Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Safer JSON-P? An interesting feature of the Bing API
Christian noticed Microsoft's Bing API callback improved functionality by checking for the function before calling it, making the experience less prone to errors. Microsoft leading by example? There's a first.

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Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Hope Unlimited For Children
I love the design adopted in this charity website - the 90s feel of the pastel colours with the blocks really make the website stick out from the crowd.

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Fri, 08 May 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Seamless Textures
Great collection of free seamless textures, ideal for adding that natural/rough touch to your designs.

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Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Chris Shiflett: Save the Internet with rev="canonical"
An attempt to own and clearly address all the short URL services dominating the Web using rev="canonical" on your HTML documents.

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Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Domain Name Search Gets Powerful with Domize
There are very few "intelligent" domain finding services out there but Domize have now built in power features for more impressive results.

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Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Open In GitGui
Useful looking script for integrating GitGui into the Mac Finder window

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Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 PDT

India seeks Rupee status symbol
To live up to the standard of other powerful countries, India are looking for an internationally recognised symbol to represent the country and their currency. Great article looking into the process and consequences of such a task
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Get fruit delivered straight to your door with Graze. The cost is reasonable and the quality if brilliant. Definitely worth signing up if you live in the UK (use promo code YV9NR9K to get your first for £1).