Rob’s geeky discoveries Blog

15 months since my last post; I have been a remarkably busy man, sorry! Also I’ve got more and more into microblogging via Twitter (@robmccardle) and found that enough of an outlet for splurging public things about technology. Time for a minor update on my little corner of the web though, just in case you’re watching.

I left Glue and joined Iris in September where I’m now Head of Interactive. Still developing on a daily basis, I lead the 4 or 5 strong Flash team here (+ a bunch of freelancers) and my days are split between bookable AS3 dev time and a smorgasbord of brainstorming, pitch work, creative consultancy, scoping, team management and technical R&D (when we’re not too busy which isn’t as often as I’d like). We’re a gloriously flat organisation and use mongrel Photoshop/Flash/Copy/UX/AE/3DSMAX/Assorted Wizardry creatives instead of traditional agency pairs which is brilliant. They’re some of the nicest and most talented folk I’ve had the pleasure of working with and all’s well.

I went to FITC Amsterdam ByteArray workshop & conference http://bit.ly/5lSRzT which absolutely rocked. Herr’s Reitberger http://www.prinzipiell.com and Klingemann http://www.quasimondo.com in particular were outstanding. I left there feeling reinvigorated and creatively inspired as a great conference should.

So; August 2010 I just updated my WP installation to shiny 3.1 behind the scenes and am back in the glorious future.

TODO – Update my portfolio with the ~100 sites I’ve worked on since I last updated
TODO – Post several very useful snippets of code I’ve written in various languages
TODO – Tool up to battle the accursed spammers (main reason I let this blog slip)
TODO – Maybe some sort of JQuizzle WP Skin upgrade when I get a spare minute

I’m afraid I just deleted 36,786 comments this afternoon & reading any of them wasn’t an option so if you’ve trying to get hold of me for legitimate purposes I apologise. Please try the other social channels available via the links on this blog if you want to get in touch.

Warm Regards,

Rob

Firstly it would appear that Lord Carter’s vision for Digital Britain involves speed reducing, litigation fuelling ISP snooping DRM nonsense á la China, Syria and Australia read more here & behold the zeitgeist in action:

www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/feb/10/cory-doctorow-digital-britain

Absolutely not. We will march through the streets of Shoreditch!

And also IE8 actually introduces 2 new browsers to test in because IE7 ‘Compatibility Mode’ does not render sites in the same was as IE7 ????? See news here from IE’s marketing department and a pretty damning analysis from someone with more sense

Please don’t use IE ever! Chrome is blisteringly fast and doesn’t crash because if one tab hangs you can kill that process without losing the whole application and having to kill your session (though god knows what private data is collected while you use it) but I’m split between that and Firefox 3 as it’s got so many amazing tools and I love Mozilla. If Google would only add FFox plugin support though…