Recommended upgrade: PHP Speedy WP 0.4.4

Just a quick informational post for those of you using the PHP Speedy Wordpress plugin. Version 0.4.4 is now available from here: http://aciddrop.com/2008/03/22/php-speedy-wordpress-plugin-version-04/
This is a recommended upgrade (versions 0.4-0.4.2 had a couple of bugs which could end up displaying an error message rather than your page output under certain conditions).

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Headscape is recruiting (again!)

Headscape are currently after two new members of staff. If you are an experienced Information Architect or a newly qualified developer, we would love to speak to you.
Yes I know, I am not supposed to be blogging at the moment. However, the reason I am not blogging is because we are so insanely busy. In [...]

Facebook App for WIRED Science

Finally, the Facebook app that I designed for WIRED Science is officially launched. The app is called "WIRED SCIENCE: What Element Are You?" It is basically a fun app that lets you take a short quiz to find out what element you are from the periodic table. Then you can combine your element [...]

I’ve Got a New Job

Friday marked my last day as a Web Strategist for AMD.
Although I was only there for a year, it was a great experience — my first working as part of a big multi-disciplinary web team for a large, multi-national organization. I learned a lot.

PHP Speedy Wordpress Plugin Version 0.4

Isn’t Easter great? Some quality time off work to spend with family and friends. Or, alternatively, to sit at your PC and work on a Wordpress plugin. I think you’ll be able to guess from this release which option I chose.
The big feature of this release (0.4) is that PHP Speedy will now [...]

Online Charting Tool for RSS Feeds

If you use FeedBurner to deliver your RSS feed then you’ll want to check out Feed Analysis by BlogPerfume. Plug in your FeedBurner URL and Feed Analysis will spit out a variety of pretty charts of your site’s RSS activity.
Whereas FeedBurner only provides reports for the last 30 days, Feed Analysis will report your subscriber [...]

Logging off

As you may have gathered if you have listened to this week’s podcast, I am intending to go offline for until the beginning of May.
Twitter, Flickr, RSS feeds, blogging, email, the forum and podcasting. They all consume a growing amount of my time and normally I am fine with that. I love being apart of [...]

8 Questions You Should Ask on Every Project

In Question Your Work, Jason Fried lists 8 questions to ask yourself (or your team) when you work on something.
This concept of questioning what you are doing is especially relevant to the arena of web design, which is notorious (in my experience) for having few — if any — criteria for success and for not [...]