8 Video conferencing tips, dos, don’ts
While most any video platform and kit can work great for one-to-one video calls, I'll share lessons learnt in my previous roles and during my time in EMBL-EBI's Web Development team.
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Five highlights from EuroIA 2017
I'll tragically ignore Stockholm and highlight inclusion, embracing and enabling.
Fluid IA to enable user discovery, prepare for change
Subtitled: Resisting entropy and preparing for change by binding content to mission.
A new site for little reason
As is apt for us web types, on 25 July 2017 I gave a reboot to this website.
Better corporate design through information architecture
Using 'brand architecture' at the heart of identity design.
How to install Lyra the graphical visualization environment
Lyra is, in my view, a proof of concept for developing rich D3-powered information display with a browser GUI.
UX success story: Doubling conversion rates, sales
The results were immediate: the site launched in the fall shopping season and saw a doubling of conversion rates from visitors — compared to both the previous months and previous fall sales — and that pace has held strong.
A model for better content, better readers, better journalism
Six years ago my then roommate and I founded TheDigitel on the idea that the future of news was changing and that the service was in curating and linking content, and that curation was going to be bigger than the massive link mills then in existence.
Muliple IPs on an Ubuntu EC2 VPC? Yes, please!
How to configure a second ethernet adapter on an Ubuntu EC2 VPC instance.
Cutting down on Postfix spam relaying
Postfix, it's used with many a LAMP stack to send out messages from a site, unfortunately it's prone to relaying many spam messages out of the box.
