Gorgeous HTML5 app

11 November, 2011

Appreciate the UX

This app is gorgeous. I don't read the Financial Times, and I think my life is probably much better by not observing the stock markets daily. However, what they have built is abso-frigging-lutely gorgeous. I believe the key driver of this as a reaction to not paying Apple a cut of subscription fees, they went the HTML5 app route.

What is produced, is a very slick web app. I've loaded it up on both my iPhone and iPad. The experience is tweaked around based on which device you're on, but the core essence of the app is the same. As someone who's seen the rise of the web from the first of the 'dynamic content' LAMP days, I have a huge appreciation for how polished this bad boy is, and the sheer depth of the content/structure (start going through the menu). Very very impressive.

Is this the future of the publishing ecosystem? If it is, I for one am loving it. Better go hire those front end HTML/JS/CSS ninjas....

Go have a look for yourself here app.ft.com

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Visa on Rails and Beyond

17 November, 2011

So I've heard from SimpleGeo, StubHub, Facebook, ESPN.com, and finally Visa who just launched V.me, Visa's new payment gateway. For me personally yesterday crystallized a lot, and in particular the last hour with Visa. Visa, in 18 months, launched their product V.Me, using an Agile development process, and, sitting down ? JRuby on Rails on the front end with Java on the backend. So lets repeat that back to ourselves, one of what must be amongst the largest IT shops in the world, who are probably the most paranoid in the world for security and process etc have started adopting Agile, and using rails. Cue blowing of mind.

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Giving your team a trip to QCon

16 November, 2011

So, one of the highlights of my career was a month or so ago at the end of a standup announcing to my development team that they were off to the QCon Software Development conference. It's something I'd budgeted at the beginning of forming the team together and being a developer at my core knew would appeal to them. I have got to say, that the instant round of smiles seconds after saying it, spoke volumes...

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Clik Compact Sport Review - The perfect adventure / mountain biking camera bag

10 November, 2011

If a photographer and a mountain biker mated, they would have produced this

This is damn near perfect. This is a hydration pack, mixed with a great camera bag. Designed to protect your gear, whilst giving it in whatever outdoor adventure sport that provides your adrenalin. It's the Clik Elite Compact Sport and I give it a full review here with some good pics and compare it to my trusty and well worn Camelbak Hawg

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GH2 - The ultimate travel camera

04 November, 2011

The real test of a travelling with a camera, 7 days clattering in a CamelBak

I spent 7 days on a Mountain Bike in Peru, with my GH2, and usually my favourite lens the 7-14mm, nestled in the top of my CamelBak Mule. When I say nestled, I really mean 'just enough room to put an elongated grapefruit'. Even at altitude, and when I was dog tired, it still didn't weigh enough to be an issue - I just packed it away every single day. The results were amazing photo essay on Peru here The telling fact, was someone else on the trip, did have a DSLR, with a Clik backpack, specially made to mtb with, took his camera one day, and then that was it - it stayed behind.

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