Sorry for the rather pointless post, I’ve just finished ensuring our test coverage is up to scratch on our project (as I mentioned in the last post). This means that I can get on with the next stage.

Which also means we’re one step closer to releasing it.

Which also means I’m one step closer to being able to tell you all about it, ohhhhh it’s so exciting!

I’ve had a site hosting an animation of mine called The Mime since mid 2002. I did have in mind to have for the site to be from the perspective of The Mime from the film and that he would have a diary etc. etc.

This was back when I was hoping to work in some sort field in 3D animation, that is before I accidentally became a full-time web developer (don’t worry I’ve progressed a lot since I did the site for the animation).
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I’m currently in the very early stages of a new personal project that we’re really excited about. It came out of an idea I had a couple of days ago when I got frustrated with a situation I was faced with in work.

Now we’re on the short road to getting something designed and built and I’m really excited. There’s not much to tell right now as it would all just be pie in the sky, but I shall be sharing as much as I can as and when things progress.

Disclaimer: I understand that this post is kind of pointless and lacking of any real substance for you, but I’m just a little giddy about this idea.

I’ve had this on my list of post ideas for months now and haven’t seemed to get round to posting about it, but a recent question from a friend about what I used to handle comment spam reminded me about it.

I use WordPress to power this site and ever since day one I received lots of spam, at first I just manually cleaned them up but once I started getting some decent traffic I had to move onto a more automated solution. So looked at lots of different plugins for WordPress and tried about 5 or 6 until I came across the fantastic Spam Karma plugin , since that day I haven’t looked back.
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My website is 1 year old today, OK so it’s really about 7 or 8 years old - but in it’s current version which works and receives semi regular updates it’s been a year since the relaunch.

What better way to celebrate than with a new release of my most popular piece of code, with just shy of 3,000 downloads so far, the JavaScript image cropper UI is now at version 1.2.0.

So looking forward to the next year I’ll try and post more regularly and hopefully get the 4 or 5 code based projects I’ve been working on (and off) released.

Behold the beauty that is now DEfusion.org.uk, version 4 or 5 I think. As I mentioned a few weeks back:

…when I was releasing the JavaScript Image Cropper UI I really noticed how much this theme had begun to bug me, mostly for it’s lack of definition and space. It’s a tweaked version of a great Wordpress theme, it has served me well, but I feel it’s time for a change. So I have created a design from scratch…

So here it is in all it’s glory and on a new server to boot, as since the launch of the Image Cropper UI and the resulting traffic the old server has been up and down like a yo-yo. Luckily plans were already in place for the new server and the build was completed late last week.
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Related Link: RAID Data Recovery Failure to correctly implement complex fault-tolerant systems leads to point of malfunction and can cause data loss.

Today I’m proud to announce the launch of a site I have been working on for quite a while, so without further to do I introduce to you Ignite Image, web design for musicians.

IgniteImage.com is a website for my web design company Ignite Image, which specialises in creating stylish, modern, accessible, functional, professional, exciting and standards compliant websites for bands and musicians. I’m extremely proud of both the aims and objectives of this website and company and the website itself.
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Over a year long period between 2001-2002 I created a short 3D animation in my spare time entitled "The Mime". This was an attempt to create a centre piece for my portfolio when I was looking for a job as an animator and it was completed within about a year long period purely in my spare time.

As I mentioned previously the supporting site for the animation went off-line with my last server and I’ve taken some time out to resurrect the site; mainly for posterity.
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Ok, yes I know you’re not sure what Ignite Sounds or Ignite Image are, basically combined they are my pet project which I spend nearly all of my free time on - I’m sure that I’ll do a more detailed post about these quite soon.

This post is about the launch of second site produced under the Ignite Sounds umbrella, with the first site being for the Leeds band Brody.
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