akamike (2007-2010)

Recent Entries

Lift is hiring! Full-time Front-end Developer Wanted

Lift is looking to take on a front-end developer to work within our existing team. If you're a front-end developer looking for a full-time job, we would love to hear from you. We need someone with a keen interest in...

SVN Repository Structures

Fellow Lift developer Kevin Carmody and I have been looking at improving our use of SVN, from better working copy management applications to what we write in commit messages. One of the key areas that we are looking at is...

akamike switches to HTML5 and Movable Type

Yesterday, I soft launched the new version of akamike. If you're viewing the site in a browser, you'll first notice a new design, but if you dig deeper and look at the source, you'll find something far more interesting! Version...

Twitter Needs Targeted Trending Topics

Pardon me if you know this already, but the world is a big place with lots of things happening, all the time. The internet made it easier to find out what things are happening in different parts of the world,...

A squirrel has turned me into a cartoon

Yesterday, on the way home from work I was pleasantly surprised (seemed like a day for it) to find that Kyle Weems has studied my anatomy, distinguishing features and fashion sense to turn me into a character in his web...

CSS Organisation and Best Practices

At Lift we have been discussing our methods of organising and writing CSS for new project and future maintenance. It got me wondering how other people choose to manage their stylesheets....