Daniel’s Blog

The company I work for (Curverider) has developed a system called Rucku. This is a social networking system for Rugby stars and fans, one of my colleagues interviewed Will Carling who is the Rugby Star that is pushing the system. The interview is available on the curverider blog (here), watch the movie.

Its all good stuff!

Daniel

rugby, socialnetworking, rucku

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Dear media companies (Microsoft, Adobe, etc),

I will not install your plugins to run things such as Silverlight and AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime). Please don’t promote these products. Fair enough if you want to build javascript libraries and IDEs (integrated development environments) for these libraries, but do not put users or developers through installing extra things when you can make things almost (if not totally) exactly the same in plain XHTML and Javascript.

Many thanks,

Daniel

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Dear web developers,

You should know better if you are thinking about developing your next web application in Microsoft Silverlight. Flash is bad enough.

Please think about accessibility, cross-browser operation and standardisation. Search Engines aren’t going to like these formats either.

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Dear businesses thinking about getting a website,

Make sure your developer/designer does not choose Silverlight. It will not be good for your business, especially in respect to SEO (Search Engine Optimisation - search engines, such as Google, like very nicely formatted HTML/XHTML pages)… you are going to be missing all that lovely information for search engines to crawl over if you hide your site behind Silverlight. Please do not use Silverlight.

Many thanks

Daniel

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Dear Graphic Designers,

Don’t make the mistake of thinking Silverlight or Flash is cool. On the web information is more important than how things look, just remember that. Good use of standards go a long way.

Many thanks,

Daniel

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Dear web user,

On behalf of a lot of people, if a website asks you to install Silverlight or something similar please do not install the plugin, or use the website anymore.

Many thanks,

Daniel

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Dear reader,

Thanks for reading. If you have a blog then please post on it with your distaste to additional plugins, and trackback to here. If you don’t have a blog, then please comment here to show that you agree. This is now a petition against such products, we have had enough with Flash - we don’t want more of the same.

Many thanks,

Daniel

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Peace, No War by Daniel Lewis (6th September 2007)

I’ve had enough of war in the world,
We’ve had enough of war.
A message to all those on all sides of war,
Peace is on the way,
You need to stop the war today.

Karma effects are alive in the world,
Bad leads to Bad, Good leads to Good.
Look after the Earth, Look after Nature,
Bombs and Guns aren’t good on any side.

Hypocritic, Democratic, forces enforcing peace,
Using terror and guns and their own law.
Peace comes naturally, You just need to look,
Look in your hearts and ask the true you.

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Let us be thankful for Luciano Pavarotti, he truly gave the world an amazing performance with his vocal talents as a tenor. He also did great work through humanitarian works. He will be missed by many - family, friends, fans and everybody that heard his voice. Be blissful and blessed.

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Hello Everyone,

I have just had someone from “The Children’s Society” knock on my door, the guy was a very nervous looking boy about 18 years old. He made a good presentation to me, but unfortunately I cannot give right now due to just coming out of uni and only just being able to survive at the moment. So I present to you, the reader, with the website:

https://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/

(and if you would like to see Iggy Pop, then you can see one of his shows and support The Children’s Society: https://www.rockthehouselive.com/?page=home )

I really do feel for these societies, I remember a couple of years ago someone from Women’s Aid knocked at my door. Obviously a similar charity to The Children’s Society, but for Women. Unfortunately I am very broke right now, and can’t support myself and charities, I am working on fixing my brokeness and things will be better in the future for me, and in turn that means better for any charity that I choose.

So I have let you know these links, so hopefully you may be able to do something for them.

Many thanks,

Daniel

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