Saturday, October 11th, 2008

A quick post, but one I’ve been wanting to make for ages. The Royal Mint launched a new set of coin designs earlier in the year, and they’re really cool. Designed by Matthew Dent, who won a nationwide competition with his ideas, I was really impressed when I first saw them announced. They cleverly feel both traditional and contemporary, by taking old devices (the Royal Arms) and breaking them up in a jigsaw-like way. I love how the various coins each give a snapshot of the whole. 

Over the last few weeks I started getting them more regularly turn up in my pocket change, and it really is great to see them. The old coins look positively shabby by comparison!

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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

Over the last few weeks I’ve been working in spare moments on a fun little project with real-time updates of a shared web page. Fun stuff, but not the point of this post. What I’m interested in here is that in order to get this working, I wanted to use comet. 

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Thursday, September 11th, 2008

Last week I headed on down to Brighton and the dConstruct web conference. A great event full of user-experience insight, old friends and expensive beer.

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