Hello all, it’s been a while. The Skinofstars site has been languishing in disuse for some time now. Like I’m sure many others, I’ve found the transition to micoblogging is all too easy. Sometimes though, one wants to write something a little longer and long gaps are not helpful when you finally think of something. So I guess I’m just … Read the remaining 404 words

Hey all, just a quick one today. I just had a job interview and I was asked the question “which design websites do I frequent”? I ummed and erred a little before mentioning Digg and Slashdot. Not very design focused I know (except maybe Digg’s design section). I also said that I trawl the blogs for Ideas, which is true. … Read the remaining 53 words

Hey All, Just thought I would tell you all about a new site that I’ve created for homework. It’s for an Oxford based band called Branch Immersion, a three piece acoustic outfit, some friends of mine. The site is hosted on the uni servers at the moment but I expect we’ll host it here at SkinOfStars towers soon enough once … Read the remaining 46 words

Hey All, I’ve decided to do a blog hack in a day and here you see the result. I was struggling with Drupal as a blogging platform, and frankly an anything platform, so I decided to move to the decidedly easier WordPress. I’m not saying there is anything wrong with Drupal, it’s a great platform. The problem is that it’s … Read the remaining 439 words

I’ve battled for days on this, but I now finally know how to parse feeds and store them in a database in Ruby On Rails. This won’t be of much interest to the casual reader, but if you are scouring the web for an answer (as I was) then you will probably find this very useful: class Feed < ActiveRecord::Base … Read the remaining 81 words

I’ve been looking at some interesting research regarding the manner in which users read web pages. I’d come across click mapping previously (links below), software that records where users click, but the Nielsen Norman Group’s eye tracking study follows where users actually look. Though their study tends to focus on commerce aspects (how much do users look at your adverts?) … Read the remaining 423 words