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Hi, I'm Paul Carvill and I'm a web developer. I am Head of Interface Development at LBi, Europe's largest digital agency.
I also like walking, cooking, Bollywood and rock 'n' roll.
Archive for March, 2009
links for 2009-03-30
Monday, March 30th, 2009links for 2009-03-27
Friday, March 27th, 2009-
Q: Does NYTimes use its API internally? A: Absolutely!
links for 2009-03-26
Thursday, March 26th, 2009-
Celebrating Ada Lovelace Day, widely recognised as the world's first computer programmer, in which people pledge to write a blogpost about a woman in technology whom they admire. Organised by Suw Charman-Anderson in response to the feelings of disempowerment and invisibility she discovered among her friends working in technology.
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Includes the Guardian's own religious affairs correspondent Riazat Butt and the excellent, and beautiful, BBC news anchor Mishal Husain
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How cloud computing is rallying in the recession
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I love the fact that Google operated without a 'classically trained designer' until halfway through 2006.
links for 2009-03-22
Sunday, March 22nd, 2009-
A remake of Sideways for the Japanese market
links for 2009-03-21
Saturday, March 21st, 2009links for 2009-03-19
Thursday, March 19th, 2009-
Includes a list of useful web typography resources
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A lengthy review of Cufón, it's benefits and drawbacks compared to the Flash-based sIFR
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Lovely paper notebooks.
links for 2009-03-18
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009-
"It's time to retire the dogma of User-Centred Design"
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Designing, prototyping, generating ideas and coming up with the answer when you're a User Experience Team Of One.
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A story told through infographics
Using Python with MySQL on Mac OSX 10.5 Leopard
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009If you try to build the MySQL Python library on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) you’ll get an error similar to this:
/usr/include/sys/types.h:92: error: duplicate ‘unsigned’
/usr/include/sys/types.h:92: error: two or more data types in declaration specifiers
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
I found the fix for this error here: http://www.keningle.com/?p=11, via a comment on this site: http://dotnet.org.za/ncode/archive/2007/01/31/setting-up-mysql-for-python-mysqldb-on-mac-os-x-2.aspx. It’s just a couple of lines in Terminal, adding a symlink so the library knows where to look to find the files.
Some background: Unless you’re using SQLite, you need to install a Python library to interface with your chosen database (PostgreSQL, MySQL or Oracle).
The MySQL library can be downloaded here: http://www.djangoproject.com/r/python-mysql/
But it seems there are a few problems running this library on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), hence the above fix.
links for 2009-03-17
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009-
Lots of juicy websites and app to explore and play with here.
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Turns out the IRS could stop the AIG board from receiving bonuses from the taxpayer's bailout of their company by rendering them NOT "a reasonable allowance for salaries or other compensation for personal services actually rendered. The United States Court of Claims declared that determinations of the reasonability, and thus the tax deductibility, of compensation should consider the "foresightedness and business acumen" of the individuals receiving such compensation. I'll leave it up to you to decide how much business acumen, if any, AIG's board exhibited.
How to do music lists
Monday, March 16th, 2009How to do a list of songs on a newspaper or magazine website:
- The Guardian’s 1000 Songs Everyone Must Hear — comes with Spotifiy links, a lengthy review of each song by a panel of music journalists a crystal clear layout and a handy export list to HTML widget.
And how not to:
- The Telegraph’s 100 Greatest Songs Of All Time — in which the adjudicating panel of one – Neil McCormick – hilariously abandons grammar in favour of enigmatic SMS-length capsule reviews. Sample description of The Doors’ Light My Fire, “Provocative, sensual, slinky song weaving erotic desire.” And another one of U2’s Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For: “Gospel rock hymn of doubt and spiritual quest.”
- Esquire’s 50 Songs Every Man Should Be Listening To — let me get this straight: you want me to click through at least 50 times, even more with ads, and if I haven’t heard the band you’re talking about the onus is on me to wade through the internet to find one of their songs to listen to? OK, thanks.