Skin of Stars

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

Sorry for being a little late with the post. I’ll be quick as I’m still working on my aforementioned project. I thought I’d talk a moment on favicons considering the talk on Google’s recent change. First thing you need is a favicon.ico file. There are all sorts of programs that, some free some not, that can do this job for … Read the remaining 52 words

Very interesting and well made video about (cue buzzword) web 2.0

These machines aren’t all fun fun fun, sometimes you have to use them for some more serious work. In this post I’m going to tell you how to make your own php/mysql web development environment on your own Ubuntu desktop. Once you’ve done this you won’t need to keep uploading files to your server just to check if something works. … Read the remaining 379 words