Some of our ramblings

A collection of thoughts, opinions and finds

How we built Singup.org

A nerdy visualisation of the activity on the singup.org Git repository.

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What the font!

The majority of designers are pretty good at recognising fonts but, like the rest of us, they do have limits and can’t remember every typeface created by every foundry since the Gutenberg press. Thankfully WhatTheFont! by MyFonts can help …

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Zend_Feed and changing the date

Just a quick note that will hopefully save someone a bit of time in the future…
When using Zend_Feed to create your RSS, don’t use:
pubDate => date(‘r’, $item->timestamp)

This doesn’t work as you’d expect. You’ll only ever get the current time. …

Cache Reminder

Things not appearing as they should when you know you’ve made changes to a website? Usually this is down to caching and some browsers (I’m looking at you Internet Explorer) are particularly stubborn when it comes to clearing the …

Our new business cards

As 3ev works with predominantly digital mediums it’s always a treat to do some work for print. It was exciting for me not only to design the cards but also to do some research into materials and finishes. The …

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