Si Jobling

Hed Kandi Destroy The Disco

Hed Kandi have decided to do an about turn and destroy the industry they were initially founded upon in the latest series of compilation releases "Destroy The Disco". Focussing on the "Twisted" brand Hed Kandi have built up over the last few years, usually consisting of breaks, electro and techno like ...

Bulk delete of Google Calendar events

Google Calendar is a great cloud computing calendar solution which allows you to manage your calendar online, as well as invite others to shared events. One feature Google Calendar is missing though is the ability to delete more than one event at a time. However, by using the remote calendar functionality ...

Multipack Turns Four

Back in October 2005, four like-minded web developers from around The Midlands met for a Saturday afternoon drink in a Walsall pub to discuss all things Web. Who'd've thunk four years on that small group of people would have become a growing friendly community who meet every month and hold ...

UEFA Calendars

Having built quite a few calendar-based solutions over the last four years, the majority of which for major football tournaments, you can imagine my surprise when UEFA approached us to develop and integrate a similar calendar solution for their organisation. As one of the largest football bodies in the world, it ...

Posting PayPal forms with PHP

PayPal is a great system for integrating simple shopping cart functionality on a website. Whether your website sells a large number of products or offers simple subscription or donation forms, PayPal allows your users to send you money securely, safely and quickly without you needing to setup a full merchant ...

One Phat DJ goes solo

For a long time, this website became dominated with content for the One Phat DJ Podcast. While it was good regular content about fresh funky house music, it was distracting from my main focus in life - the Web and digital media. The One Phat DJ website has been available for ...

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 ...

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You get what you pay for…
Sarah Parmenter's experience of client's expecting cheap websites really touches home for me. If only more clients and companies understood our position further.

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Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Generation Y-pay
Andy Budd makes some interesting observations on the state of "illegal" downloads and the effect it has the industry. I share quite a few of these opinions too.

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Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:00:00 PDT

jQTouch
A jQuery plugin for mobile web development with great support for iPhone, Android and other mobile devices. No more waiting for iTunes to approve your app!

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Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Great Works

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Logan Logistics Consulting
Clean solid B&W design
Alastaire Allday
Great use of B&W photography, relying on good type to get the message across.

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Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PDT

Pet Care By Jennifer
Simple design with high impact deliverables and good direction

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Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 PDT

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