James Wilding Freelance Rails, Ruby, and iPhone Web App Developer

Internet Growth 1998–2008

An interactive map showing internet uptake over ten years.

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Hello HTML5

Reasons to read the HTML5 specs

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Microsoft, Apple, and Creative Business

Copying is uncool, kids.

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The Most Important Thing About Starting A Business

I’ll give you a clue: it’s not money.

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User-led Usability

I just read “Progress in Usability: Fast or Slow?” by Jakob Nielsen, and absolutely loved how he focused on the purpose of usability studies: finding out how easy it is for users to do what they want to do.
I’ve actually taken part in a few usability studies — as a participant, rather than a researcher [...]

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No Magic, Just Progress

Every so often, I read about how the internet is massively changing the way businesses and customers interact. Today I read a Guardian book review that explained how
“Networked markets are beginning to self-organise [...] People in networked markets have figured out that they get far better information and support from one another than from [...]

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Internet Electioneering

A quote from Labour’s Douglas Alexander, on consulting with the US Democrats about Labour’s election campaign:
“[We expected them to tell us] modern campaigning begins and ends with the internet. Actually, they said this is about peer-to-peer communication — the internet just gives you new ways of having that conversation.”
The internet really is just a communication [...]

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The Human Web

95% of people don’t care about web standards, and they’re right.

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Paperclip on Rails 3 Beta

More fun with Rails 3 beta.

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Working with Rails 3

Don’t be scared, you can actually make a working app with Rails 3 beta.

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