I've just finished reading the first chapter of  "The Unplugged" a book by GUIMags.

I must say that it was the byline that snagged my attention, as a developer the idea that this is possible intrugues me, and I am keen to read the rest of the book.

From reading the sample chapter the book seems to be about improving the software development process by ensuring change happens mostly at the planning stages of a project, which seems applicable to any type of project not just software. Read more »

Top-End Vegetarian:

• Shakahari in Faraday St, Carlton. Prices at high end, but OK.

Middle of the Road: Read more »

Found this via Twitter, enjoy.. Read more »

I started working with web in 1995 so have been in the industry almost as long as it has existed.

If I didn't care so much about building functional and user friendly sites, it would almost be amusing how many times my wealth of knowledge about the web has been under-utilised

So it was quite serendipitous, as I am currently facing many of these issues in my daytime job,  that I've come across this article by Smashing Magazine covering some of the oft-encountered truths about corporate websites. Read more »

The bad guy is filter_xss_bad_protocol(), which allows for all kinds of protocols, but not skype. Because it uses a (hidden) variable, you can change it by hand using one of the following methods: This works or D5 as well. Read more »

I want 3 content states with revisions for any change in state:

• Published
• Draft (while leaving the currently published version live)
• Un-Published

After trying numerous times, over several months, to get Workflow or WorkflowNG to co-operate with me and create a workflow whereby I could acheive the above, and ending up with extraneous revisions and sketchy reliability between content states I was able to disable a bunch of modules and do it all with only 2 modules. Read more »