Saw this last night, and felt compelled to share it with the world.
In London Last Night
Author: Alasdair
Throw The Switch Igor! Throw the Fucking Switch!
Not that most of you are going to care terribly much, but the project that has been eating my life for the last few months went live today, in a more-or-less pain free manner. There’s been a few minor tweaks, but nothing has fallen over, nothing has broken, and no-one is running around like a headless chicken.
The new Slug and Lettuce pub chain website is now live. And while it looks quite simple, it has a completely state of the art on-line booking system (and it is my business to know what state of the art in this field is – it really is better than anyone else’s, I promise you). I could bore you all rigid with waffle about the clever features, the ultra sexy (and user-friendly) admin system, and so on and forth, but the acid test is simpler than that: since going live a couple of hours ago, they have already had a reasonable number of enquiries via this system. Client confidentially prevents me from giving away precise numbers, but we appear to be on course to put through as many hundred covers in two days as their old system did in a month. And that’s on launch day. Things will only improve over the next year or so.
So, yeah. That’s done. Next!
Links For Sunday 21st September 2008
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I spend a fair amount of time hacking about with WordPress in my spare time. This'll come in handy.
Links for Friday September 19th 2008
- WordPress Developer’s Toolbox | Developer’s Toolbox | Smashing Magazine
I spend a fair amount of time hacking about with WordPress in my spare time. This'll come in handy.
Links for Tuesday September 16th 2008
- Silverback — guerrilla usability testing
Doing proper usability testing suddenly got much, much more affordable. The price of a cheap Mac, plus 25 quid, and some freebies ot give awya to anyone that will come in sit down with your app/website for 20 minutes.
Links For Sunday 14th September 2008
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Absolutely superb list. If any part of your computing life is making you unhappy, refer to this list, because I bet it'll tell you what you're doing wrong.
Links for Friday September 12th 2008
- al3x.net: al3x’s Rules for Computing Happiness
Absolutely superb list. If any part of your computing life is making you unhappy, refer to this list, because I bet it'll tell you what you're doing wrong.
Links For Sunday 7th September 2008
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Ugly as fuck, but this might be a useful site for reference/pocking around odd bits of Londonalia.
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Why yes, I do want this quite badly. Even just to use as a monitor/interface – I've gotten so used to slinging windows between virtual desktops that I would absolutely love to be able to do it by hand.
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This is one of those products that I simultaneously thing is quite a cool little representative thing, a genuinely nice idea in human computer interaction, and yet, I cannot see a practical use for. I either have multiple chat windows open, or I'm not using IM. And I just don't see how it'd work for multiple chat windows…
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OK, just two links on the subject, then.
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Probably a few of these today
Saturday Morning: A Prescription
Get up early. Get some exercise. Return home, shower and shave. Make coffee. Plug computer into surround sound system. Catch up on correspondence while listening to the Dresden Dolls very loud. (Make mental note to replace knackered old stereo cheap-ish surround sound system as soon as possible – it never gets used as anything other than amp and speakers anyway.) This done, leave house with intent to go any eat really good breakfast somewhere nice.
(And then go into office. Bugger. LJ/Email/GTalk based entertainment and distraction particuarly welcome this afternoon.)
Links for Thursday September 4th 2008
- Welcome to The Shady Old Lady’s Guide to London
Ugly as fuck, but this might be a useful site for reference/pocking around odd bits of Londonalia.