The keyword geek

I used to fettle dictionary web sites. Now I chase dreams.

Monday, 23 April 2012

Preparing for MSIE Overtaking Day

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    It's been a trope of the web developer's existence for the last decade: Microsoft Internet Explorer won the browser wars in th...
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Thursday, 5 April 2012

Accessibility: it's an engineering problem

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    A  little over a week ago, the British paralympian athlete Tanni Grey-Thompson gave an interview in which she decried the state of acce...
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Thursday, 8 March 2012

How the Pi could have been (some of) ours

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  (edit: My Pi arrived on 2012-05-14. If you would like to read about my plans for it you can do so here , and my review of it can be found ...
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Wednesday, 15 February 2012

An AJAX and jQuery driven web feature, the OxfordWords Text Analyser

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    If you are a follower of the OxfordWords Blog , you may have seen the launch of the OxfordWords Text Analyser , coinciding with the 2...
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Friday, 23 December 2011

I call it stealing

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    I have a friend who receives Disability Living Allowance. She can walk for about fifty yards, then she has to sit down, such are her med...
Monday, 21 November 2011

Android vs. iOS apps: it's a matter of status

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So my mission has been to research a category of smartphone apps. I've been to the iPhone App Store, the Android Market, the Windows P...
Thursday, 13 October 2011

FAILBlog #fail

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    My life is complete. A piece of software I wrote for the Oxford Words Blog , an online Shakespearean vocabulary checker , has been fea...
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Friday, 2 September 2011

How smart does a smartphone have to be?

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    It started with an argument I heard last year at an event for mobile application developers. On my left, a developer, on my right a mobi...
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Friday, 12 August 2011

Precomputing for fun and profit

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    Last year I wrote a post about my keyword analysis tool . I wrote this piece of software in the years before I started working for OUP, ...
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The annoyance of writing stupid things

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   It is with some surprise that I notice six months have passed since I last published anything here. It's not that I haven't writt...
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