All posts of a remotely technical nature should be associated with this category.
I am in the process of designing a simple MIDI control surface, all design information to be released under a Creative Commons license.
Vision Australia is running their popular Web Accessibility Techniques workshop in Adelaide on 20 November 2008.
This is about the fourth generation of this programme that I have been using over the last few years to generate SQL and Perl code based on a MySQL database schema. The idea behind this is much repetitive coding can be eliminated - the ouput of this programme can be tweaked/corrected and then cut and pasted into an application.
Smiffy designs a retro-look kitchen timer to suit his needs.
Tab Mix Plus is a Firefox extension that allows enhanced control over tabbed browsing.
Smiffy meets the eyeProd, er, iPod Nano.
What is a clock? What is a calendar? How can one do the job of the other? In this series of articles, Smiffy describes a project in which an everyday quartz clock is converted into a solar calendar - the Solstice Clock.
After some ten years since being told about the joys of VMware virtualisation, Smiffy finally gives it a go and wonders how he ever coped before.
This article tells how the accessibility and usability of web content may be impacted by speed issue from various causes. The article goes on to explain how speed may be measured or estimated and how the various causes may be addressed. Presented as content for the February Newsletter of the Guild of Accessible Web Designers (GAWDS).
The Project Honeypot site appears to be back in operation - with bugs.
Smiffy at LinkedIn