Author: Tom
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Deliveroo Is Killing, Not Saving The Restaurant Trade
Vaunted teal meals on wheels unicorn, Deliveroo has claimed this week that they’ll generate 70,000 new jobs in the restaurant trade and help bring the industry back to its former glory thanks to huge new investment across the UK. Thank god. More bikes, fewer employment contracts, and less human interaction – just what the kangaroo…
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What is your impact on the world?
Technology as a whole has always been about enhancing the human experience, elevating our capabilities to levels that are dizzying to generations past. We’ve achieved the most amazing feats of engineering and perhaps the most indicative metric of success is our apathy for them. We’ve walked on the moon and cured diseases that previously threatened…
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All Work No Play
Joseph Lynn is a good friend and film-maker/photographer who toured with the comedian Noel Fielding during 2014. Throughout his time on tour he photographed a number of intimate moments both on and off stage and there was a strong demand for him to sell prints of his work.
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Cavanagh’s Cottage
Craftsman Hughie McCormack had just finished restoring his family cottage in Ireland when he contacted me about creating this site. Here was a project that needed to reflect the client’s incredible attention to detail and high level of skill, so as to really sell the cottage to potential holiday-makers.
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Sun Centre World
For over 30 years Sun Centre World has been providing top-class sun centres to the North West, and with such a focus on a high-quality experience for every client at their centres, they wanted a website to reflect their dedication.
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SSBB
Stockport Schools’ Brass Bands (SSBB) was in dire need of a new site – a vibrant group of young and old who come together to create fantastic music, they wanted to be well represented on the web. As well as having a powerful desktop site a mobile version that mirrored all the functionality was also…
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AWDemolition
AWDemolition wanted a good-looking site to provide potential clients with a great impression of the company, and an easy mode by which to contact them. The brief was simple: create a good-looking and simple site, which the client can update at the drop of a hat.
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Pass data from modal view back to parent in the iOS SDK
I recently came across a problem using the newest version of XCode (4.4), in which we can use the fantastic Storyboards feature. The question was simple – how do I present a modal view, ask the user for some data, and then return that to the parent view? In the past it was a pretty…
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Implement the WordPress Geolocation Plugin
For a while now WordPress has had apps across the mobile spectrum, and a great feature of these is geolocation – great, but who wants to know where I’m blogging from right? Well recently I had to build a blog for someone travelling around the world, and it quickly became apparent that using the data…
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iTalkPirate
Every day hundreds, if not thousands of normal folk from around the world struggle to communicate with the pirate population, and with such a complex language most fail to ever understand what they’re trying to say. So there was only one solution – build an app to translate English, into Pirate English!