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bee network

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Thoughts and ideas to share. Bee network at i-KNOW. As part of i-KNOW on Friday, Mike will be giving a presentation on the structured knowledge transfer in the acquisition of patents, under the theme ‘Knowledge Management and Patents’. We’ll make the presentation available to you after the event and I’m sure Mike will have a lot more to update you on next week! When signage goes wrong. We’ve switched our bee network. Page on Facebook to the timeline view - just in time for the deadline of 30 March! We re...

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bee network

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Thoughts and ideas to share. Bee network at i-KNOW. As part of i-KNOW on Friday, Mike will be giving a presentation on the structured knowledge transfer in the acquisition of patents, under the theme ‘Knowledge Management and Patents’. We’ll make the presentation available to you after the event and I’m sure Mike will have a lot more to update you on next week! When signage goes wrong. We’ve switched our bee network. Page on Facebook to the timeline view - just in time for the deadline of 30 March! We re...

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Web related matters from Chagford, Dartmoor

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Ensuring dynamic image captions are legible. It is quite common these days for the home page of a website to have scrolling images to introduce the site. If you are displaying a caption on these it is hard to ensure that the fixed caption colour doesn't end up on part of the image that has the same colour. What is the most useful mobile phone app. Texting used to be chore until I got a smart phone. All the multi presses on tiny keys to get to a single letter meant I hardly used it at all. Is an indespens...

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Blogging about the Internet from Chagford on Dartmoor

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PHP wont work after 2038. Added on: Tuesday 11th June 2013. That is a bit of an attention grabbing headline but there is at least one function in PHP that doesn't like dates after 2038. I've recently been working on a web based CRM system for a client who is an Independent Financial Adviser. They rang me up the other day and told me they couldn't save the date in a particular field of a mortgage record. I went through the code time and time again and tried a few tests on other records and all seemed fine.

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Blogging about the Internet from Chagford on Dartmoor

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Open yourself up to comments. Added on: Saturday 24th May 2014. Many webmasters are wary of adding discussion forums to a website because of problems with spam and the need to keep software up to date. If you write your own software then you have to include features to allow users to register and administrators to block or ban users and to moderate comments. The code can also be accessed from your admin area. There are options to style the comment area but I found that the default was nice and unobtrusiv...

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Blogging about the Internet from Chagford on Dartmoor

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Happy Responsive New Year. Added on: Saturday 18th January 2014. During 2013 mobile and tablet usage continued to grow at a phenomenal rate so that between them they now account for 25% of all internet usage. I think this can no longer be ignored by website developers. One of my resolutions for 2014 is to make sure that any new websites or applications I build are responsive. I will convert some existing applications but there is an additional cost involved with this that might not be able to be absorbed.

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Blogging about the Internet from Chagford on Dartmoor

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What is the most useful mobile phone app. Added on: Tuesday 29th July 2014. Texting used to be chore until I got a smart phone. All the multi presses on tiny keys to get to a single letter meant I hardly used it at all. All that changed with the virtual keyboard of the smart phone but even then switching from letters to other symbols and back again was cumbersome. As of now though, Swift Key is free at Google Play so head over there and get it as soon as you can. Andrew Parrott runs Round Ash Associates.

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Blogging about the Internet from Chagford on Dartmoor

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What is the most useful mobile phone app. Added on: Tuesday 29th July 2014. Texting used to be chore until I got a smart phone. All the multi presses on tiny keys to get to a single letter meant I hardly used it at all. All that changed with the virtual keyboard of the smart phone but even then switching from letters to other symbols and back again was cumbersome. As of now though, Swift Key is free at Google Play so head over there and get it as soon as you can. Comments powered by Disqus. If you haven'...

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Blogging about the Internet from Chagford on Dartmoor

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Illegal Characters in jQuery. Added on: Wednesday 14th September 2011. I was caught out the other day by some jQuery form validation not working on one of CMS sites. The reason, I eventually found out was an illegal character in an element ID. Our CMS includes a form builder that allows users to add contact forms, surveys etc to their websites. The form builder generates the html to go on the page and users the jquery validate and metadata plugins to do the validation. Comments powered by Disqus. Interne...

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Why Slowducks

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A few years ago my daughter put this sign up on the road bend just before the house as she was worried about her pet ducks getting run over. In the Summer especially they seem to like the warmth of the road and we often see cars waiting patiently because the ducks refuse to get out of the way. Anyway, people coming to visit us or driving past the house occasionally joke (or perhaps really do think! Whats the blog for then? That Round Ash Associates. Another reason though is just to flag up things that I ...