Whilst studying at Bournemouth University, I sat in guest lecture from the Head of Technology at the BBC (c2006) who discussed the iPlayer sphere before its existence and ever since the area has always been an interested. Consequently the evolution of the iPlayer amazes me, specifically the coupling of advances in technology and the changes [...]
I’ve just added a little twitter ticker flickr thing on chrisherring.co.uk which looks at my Twitter posts and fetches related Flickr image. A while ago I created a Twitter badge in flash for an indies band website, only to find 3 weeks later Twitter changed their api due to a security issue. Later I re-created [...]
In last few weeks of November the Government admitted to losing one laptop per week since the child benefit database went walkabout with half populations information on it. In contrast whilst meandering my way through the internet I came Show Us A Better Way is competition run by the Government to encourage developers and such [...]
Way back in Dec ‘06 while I was at Bournemouth University I started planning and prototyping my final year major project, the idea was to produce an alternate reality game including a mobile aspect using Flash Lite 2.0 on Nokia phone. Remember this a time when the iPhone had only just been announced and the [...]