Content tagged: Personal

Introducing: Block - a simple tumblr theme

Tue, 24/04/2012 - 19:45

Today I submitted my first Tumblr theme: 'Block' for review. (I named it 'block' because the main navigation is quite block-like as is the general structure of the overall theme.)

Who's tweeting the most?

Tue, 20/03/2012 - 09:58

In an effort to learn a bit more about the Twitter API I decided to set myself a little weekend project to try and create something with the data available.

I'm used to working with PHP and found this pretty solid PHP library which gave me a good base with which to get started on. If you use another programming language, the Twitter developers site has a comprehensive list of other libraries available.

GrammarTime JavaScript word clock

Mon, 12/03/2012 - 17:24

As a little side project I decided it might be pretty cool to create an online word clock which shows the time as you might speak it.

So, I created: GrammarTime.

I'm pretty pleased with the result, looks pretty nice in full screen mode too.

I also learned a nifty little trick for hiding the navigation bar in Safari on the iPhone, just use the following bit of JavaScript on page load:

A photo of the Moon taken from my iPhone

Mon, 05/03/2012 - 18:34

I took the photograph below by lining up my iPhone to the eyepiece of a telescope. It was slightly tricky to get lined up but I think the end result was pretty great:

The Moon taken from an iPhone by Thomas Davis

Pretty cool huh?

Using ifttt to archive your tweets

Tue, 21/02/2012 - 13:31

I’ve been seeing quite a few tweets about not being able to search back through your own tweets, with some users even offering to pay twitter for such a service:

Planning a project pie chart

Sun, 08/01/2012 - 18:15

Today I have yet again been faced with this:

Planning a project pie chart

Personally, I think something needs to change with regards to domain name registrations. Perhaps if a domain isn't put to good use within 6 months it should be put up for sale again?

At least the ordeal inspired me to make something!

GotBrief - a site to fuel your creativity.

Tue, 03/01/2012 - 15:19

Over the past couple of months I've been working on a self initiated project: GotBrief.

After attending Build 2011 I was inspired, truly inspired by the various talks and events which took place over the course of the conference. So inspired infact I decided to actually go out and build something, something which would hopefully inspire and help others to go out and create something too.

A MOmentous occasion

Sat, 22/10/2011 - 15:28

*Thank you to everyone who donated! Same time next year!*

Ladies and gentlemen, the time has come for me to finally try and grow a moustache. For too long now my upper lip has been a barren wasteland of hairlessness leaving me with a bitter mo-envy of the greats: Selleck, Reynolds, Burgandy and most of all the legendary Hercule Poirot.

Why am I suddenly posting about such a topic?

Level Up

Sun, 04/09/2011 - 13:43

I've been working on the following design recently:

level up poster design by thomas

I'm quite happy with the final result, I did have the chevrons of the military insignia as solid colour rather than the vertical lines but I find they add a slight illusion to the piece; can you see the three floating platforms?

The lone vagabond

Sat, 29/01/2011 - 16:40

I've been playing about with the idea of a design involving the outline of a person, much like the style of the Mad Men opening titles, however I have been a bit too busy lately to actually design anything!

I managed to play around with some of the ideas today and I came up with the following:

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