As some of you know, I recently changed jobs from WMS Gaming to Playfish UK and as I wrote about my reasons for leaving the games industry, I thought it be interesting to write about why and how I came back.
User Interface Design For Programmers -
It’s an old article but a pretty good one with analysis on GUIs from applications that we are all familiar with. Well worth a read if you ever had to implement a GUI menu or are intending to.
Finally got round to updating my online portfolio again. My last upgrade didn’t quite hit the mark for me. A step in the right direction but it still didn’t feel presentable or something I was proud of showing.
After looking at some student’s portfolios and some inspiration from the the Update Conference site, I set myself a challenge on making a single page site and here is the result.
The layout and colour scheme is much nicer and I used Initialiser 2 as a base for some jQuery work.
360 degree view of Space Shuttle Discovery cockpit -
That’s a hell lot of buttons!
On Monday, I attended the Update Conference 2011 in the Brighton Dome Theatre and it was a fantastic experience it was! Great venue and a good mix of talks and entrainment with live music acts (including the host himself singing on stage to open the event and a Kinect hack sample mixer). The majority of the talks were very design driven, focusing on the user experience and interface from web and mobile technologies.
Between the various sessions, 5 min mini-talks (TechBeats) were taking place in another area focusing on smaller and more specific subjects such as Typography for the web detailing the differences when compared to choosing fonts for printed works and the mobile phone industry in Africa which was an eye opener for me (more people in Africa have access to mobile Internet then clean water).
The organisers also booked the Brighton Museum for an after party which allowed us to view the exhibits while live music acts and DJs were playing their sets.
All in all, it was definitely worth the ticket price and I look forward to Update Conference 2012.
(I will post more on some of the individual talks a bit later).
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Your Nurofen Plus pills may accidentally be Anti-Psychotic drugs -
The affected packs of Nurofen Plus all contain 32 tablets and carry the following batch numbers, expiry dates and product licence numbers:
13JJ, 03/2014, 00327/0082;
57JJ, 05/2014, 00063/0376;
49JJ, 05/2014, 00063/0376.
Each batch contains between 4,000 and about 7,500 packs, amounting to about half a million tablets. However not all packs are affected.
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13-Year-Old Makes Solar Power Breakthrough by Harnessing the Fibonacci Sequence -
From the article:
“To see why they branch this way he built a small solar array using the Fibonacci formula, stepping cells at specific intervals and heights. He then compared the energy output with identical cells set in a row. Aidan reports the results: “The Fibonacci tree design performed better than the flat-panel model. The tree design made 20% more electricity and collected 2 1/2 more hours of sunlight during the day. But the most interesting results were in December, when the Sun was at its lowest point in the sky. The tree design made 50% more electricity, and the collection time of sunlight was up to 50% longer!””
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