I feel like I’ve been in my little hole for months now … oh yeah it has been, since October! I’ve been beavering away in my evenings building a simple idea:
I’m a music fan, how can I collect and remember the gigs I’ve been to?
Together with Gordon Duncan who came up with the original idea I have been building GigStamp.
The check-in app for music fans
The app is really very simple on the surface. It finds you at a gig, you choose some stamp artwork, add a message and boom … you have your stamp.
The RFU revisited the WE ARE campaign and brought a lighter face lift for the RBS 6 Nations in February last year.
Kinetic and our old Social Friends
This site featured the previous kinetic timeline surfacing a mash-up of content from within rfu.com (including articles and videos) along with content from their social streams on twitter and Facebook.
New Fixtures
It also included brand new fixtures tables showing a combination of old scores and up and coming games for the tournament.
One of the last projects I completed before going away to Toronto in March 2012 I was a responsive web site and app for an annual Sitecore event called Digital Trendspot. This was a great project to be involved with as it used some features like Geo Location and CSS Media Queries to create a web site which could also be used as an app for the event’s attendees on the day.
I have just finished a project for Adam Ball who is an artist based in London. This has been a real challenge and has made me push boundaries in to new territory.
Responsive Design, Responsive Images
The main area has been with serving appropriate image sizes according to the device. I have previously talked about my responsive images jQuery plugin which is a good stop gap for getting this to work across the current browser landscape. I have liked working with responsive images in this way because it is a much more organic solution than the ones I have seen elsewhere. It’ll be great when we’ve got something natively to handle this sort of thing.
I had a great visit to the FA yesterday at Wembley to meet Mindaugas Vaiciulis and Tomasz Libich to take them through the new FA Skills codebase and architecture. The site went live a few weeks ago and is a site offering ways for parents and kids to take part in football coaching for 5 to 11 year olds.
Strangely it was my first time ever inside a football stadium and it happened to be when it was completely empty. But it’s an impressive place. Apparently some of the staff have a jog around the stadium on the 5th floor at lunchtime for a bit of exercise as it’s a 1 Km round trip.
Dave Taylor - Software Engineer
