mrwalker

• Highlights from 2007

  Architecture

  • New architecture website for Cre8 Architecture.
  • New architecture website for Oberlanders Architects with Bremner Design.
  • A significant overhaul of Oliver Chapman Architects portfolio, again with Bremner Design.

  Blogs & Portfolios

  • Redesign of randomsequence.com
  • A portfolio for architectural photography & visualisation expert, Peter Guthrie.
  • A company blog for a new bike shop in Queensbury, Bradford: Firth Cycles.
  • A personal portfolio for architect & photographer Tim Bayman.
  • A company portfolio for wedding & portrait photographers, White Photo.

  Other Projects

  • Random Sequence has designed & built the online booking system for Pilates Works.

  Non-Web

  • A new iPhoto style front end for the MAME OS X emulator, MAME Library.
  • Work continues updating the desktop notes application for Mac OS X, Sticky Notes.

  02 Jan 2008

• Edinburgh Coffee Morning Facebook Discussion

  An interesting Coffee Morning today. I had a discussion with Mike about Facebook and who it’s for - I agree the demographic targeting for marketing purposes is second to none but I’m still unconvinced that the actual product is useful to me. Mike thinks Facebook’s rise is only the beginning and we should see it as a ‘personal newspaper’, feeding you updates on all of your friends.

  I think everything Facebook does is do-able elsewhere on the web - I like like using the different sites / services for the one thing they do well - Flickr for photographs, del.icio.us for my bookmarks, Twitter for right-now microblogging and so on. Through a feed reader I can pool this together and keep up with my own and my friends’¹ online activities without much fuss.

  But then I know what a feed reader is and I’ve enjoyed checking out up the various services as they emerged, one at a time. I know how to make websites and set-up a blog - I almost find Facebook patronising².

  Most people aren’t as geeky as I am, and most people don’t have any of these services set up. In that case, Facebook is a great place to start. I should be pleased that more people are bring their lives online - that’s where my business is.

  1. Only applies to friends who are similarly geeky.
  2. It means talking down to people. (Jimmy Carr)

  17 Aug 2007

• LaunchBar 4.3

  The new version of LaunchBar feels like a whole new OS.

  LaunchBar was one of the first apps I bought when I moved to Mac OS. I can’t use a Mac without it installed for more than a few minutes.

  Sure, QuickSilver has it’s fans, but those ‘superfluous visual effects’ and all that mucking about with plug-ins & configuration just doesn’t seem The Mac Way™ to me.

  04 Aug 2007

• New & Improved Random Sequence - Now With Tags

  09 Jul 2007

• Apple Releases Safari 3.0 Beta

  12 Jun 2007

• Finally, The All New Apple.com

  11 Jun 2007

• Our Take on Search Engine Optimisation

  04 Apr 2007

• Edinburgh Coffee Morning

  23 Mar 2007

• XML RPC & Metaweblog API

  15 Mar 2007

• Creative Commons Licences

  05 Mar 2007

• BarCamp Scotland

  03 Mar 2007

• Breakfast With Web People

  23 Feb 2007

• Sticky Notes Update - Universal Binary

  16 Feb 2007

• Business Cards

  05 Feb 2007

• New Sites: Bremner Design, Huma Hyder Photography

  01 Feb 2007

• The Highland Fling 2007 - Progressive Enhancement

  25 Jan 2007

• Edinburgh Webites Coffee Morning

  19 Jan 2007

• New Office - 45 Moray Place, Edinburgh

  08 Jan 2007