Ian Brown – F.E.A.R.

It’s my first time working together with a group in an office, as opposed to the usual freelancing routine of one man alone in his sitting room. This aspect alone – despite some initial reservation – is definitely something I’ve appreciated over the course of the year. It’s good to get out there, it’s great to share and bounce ideas around with smart people who, between them, know much more about visual design and the business side of business than I’d ever want to ;-), and it’s invaluable knowing that those other aspects are in such capable hands – while I get all excited over my codes.

Over the course of the past six months or so, I’ve expanded upon my knowledge of Codeigniter to build a powerful multi-site CMS system for our clients, launched websites for clients such as McGovern Surveyors, DBASS Accountants, ETAG Signs and the classifieds ads website, Fetch.ie. And at the back of it all has been the project which arguably brought us together, Octopied.

And Then?

For the new year I’m hoping to enjoy a good deal of the same, while shifting more of my time and attention over to Octopied. Over the Christmas break (my first real “time off work” all year) I’ve been reading extensively on the Symfony PHP framework, and I like what I see. Compared to CodeIgniter, it feels a bit like getting the kid-gloves off, and 2010 might just be the year for that. Here’s to it!

Happy new year!

I want a simple PHP script that I can dump into a directory on a web server and get an image gallery. Too much to ask?

which inspired be to create a simple PHP script that I can dump into a directory on a web server and get an image gallery.

You can download the files here, which includes the script (the only thing you really need), instructions, some stylesheets and a few example images.

You can also check out a simple demo.

Everything is provided ‘as is’ and for use at your own risk.

Feel free to use, edit, distribute and do whatever you want with this script. If you do anything cool it’d be nice if you let me know :)

I have, of course, listened to an awful lot more music than this in the past twelve months – but I don’t scrobble all the time. Apart from the numbers though, this list is probably accurate enough.

So, according to my Last.fm profile, this is what I have been mostly listening to in the past 12 months.

Pos. – ARTIST – # Tracks Played

1 – Kings of Leon – 286
2 – The Beatles – 229
3 – Radiohead – 219
4 – Vangelis – 214
5 – The American Analog Set – 86
6 – Philip Glass – 82
7 – Beirut – 75
8 – Rage Against the Machine – 43
9 – Led Zeppelin – 37
10 – The Flaming Lips – 32
11 – The Redneck Manifesto – 31
12 – Calexico – 29
13 – Nirvana – 27
14 – R.E.M. – 26
15 – Air – 23

I can now mount the phone wirelessly over SSH in Ubuntu (or anything else) and drag + drop my tunes, videos, files, etc. over to it :-D

The Ubuntu User Guide has instructions for getting this done.

…there also seems to be instructions there for getting iPhone2.2 working with ‘normal’ syncing apps on Ubuntu. Going to try that out now.

Not *too* much else of interest from the jailbroken app store, to be honest… though InteliScreen is good — displays upcoming calendar events and new mail summary on the lock screen…. but wireless transfer was the killer app for me. My fenestraphobia has kept me from changing my tunes for too damn long.

The Budwiser ‘Wassup’ guys, eight years later, looking forward to some change. All gets a bit cheesy towards the end, but it made me laugh anyway…

Originally aired on the BBC in March 2007, you can now watch the programmes via Google Video below.

The style, and quality, is very similar to Curtis’ previous — and equally brilliant — documentary series “The Power of Nightmares”. Curtis seems to have an ability to look at our world as though he were examining a colony of ants… avoiding preconceptions, sweeping statements and black and white judgement, and instead offering a largely unbiased (though inevitably somewhat anti-establishment) overview of the systems of the society we live in.

These are the documentaries that Zeitgeist, Loose Change, et al, can only wish they were.

Part One : “Fuck You Buddy” :

Part Two : “The Lonely Robot” :

Part Three : “We Will Force You To Be Free” :

Must fix up the frontpage to suit.