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Dolly Mix 04.03.10 – Dublin Airport Map, Rounded Corners & Hometown on the Telly

The destinations map on the Dublin Airport Destination Map annoyed me the other day when trying to look up routes to Germany. A lovely big interactive map squished into matchbox, effectively. So I pulled out the iFrame link and here it is in fullscreen glory.
Generate your CSS3 border-radius goodness with preview of results and with [...]

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Web dev for iPhone

I’ve spent some time this week developing HTML templates for an iPhone version of a web application we’re working on at X Communications.
It’s been a really pleasant experience thus far. Having only one (reliable) browser to test in and being able to take advantage of some lovely CSS3 properties has been just fabulous.
Better yet there’s [...]

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Junior Spider Awards

I just heard an ad for the brand spanking new Junior Spider Awards on Today FM and so to the Google machine I went to find out more, quite skeptical about what I might find.
I’m happy to say that any cynicism or dread felt at the idea of the Golden Spiders spawning babies has been [...]

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5 things I learned today

In no particular order…

Virginia Agricultural Show (Cavan) is 68 years old, has over 400 judging classes and €50,000 prize money up for grabs
Damien has a chocolate allergy but can handle the lower cocoa value stuff
You can do the local lotto for many GAA clubs in Ireland online at locallotto.ie
Microsoft will support IE6 until 2014
Gmail has been [...]

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Sucked into a time-warp

Doing some researching and reading for work today I stumbled on some very old school websites in need of a facelift to say the least. Particularly surprised by the government ones. Retro has an ugly side.

Copyright Association of Ireland (featuring some broken links)
Department of Enterprise, Trade & Employment (many pages date-stamped as last udpated in [...]

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