OpenID20 items tagged “nataliedowne”
Django People
I’m constantly surprised by the number of people I run in to at conferences (or even in one case on the train) who are using Django but are completely invisible to the Django community. It seems that this is the downside of having good documentation: many people just read it and start building, without ever showing their face on the mailing lists or IRC. [... 194 words]
Poorly Macbook, ineffective error message design. Nat’s MacBook died the other day, throwing out some impressively meaningless error symbols. How exactly are you meant to Google for a circle with a line through it? 
13th January 2008, 11:31 pm
Back To The Future of Print. Nat’s contribution to 24 ways: a long needed update on the state of the art in print stylesheets. 
9th December 2007, 12:56 am
Brighton geek venues. Nat’s latest project: a neat Google Maps mashup listing venues for geek events in Brighton, managed using Google MyMaps to edit a KML file. 16th August 2007, 1:38 am
Twitter / Natalie: Its announced and official... We’re both moving to Brighton in September. 
26th July 2007, 5:22 pm
Lithuania 2007 set on a Map. Nat has painstakingly geotagged 285 photos from our trip to Lithuania. 15th July 2007, 10:17 pm
Natalie Downe: Lithuania 07. Nat’s been blogging our adventures in Lithuania. 12th July 2007, 6:33 pm
oxfordgeeks.net
Nat and I had a bit of a mini-hackday this bank holiday Monday. Nat’s been doing a great job summoning local geeks out of the woodwork with Oxford Geek Nights event, but it’s still pretty hard to find other interesting events in the Oxfordshire area. It’s not that there aren’t any, it’s just that the geek community in Oxford is currently pretty fragmented. [... 295 words]
Talks for Oxford Geek Nights announced. Microslots on Yahoo! Pipes, Semantic Mediawiki, Second Life and more. 6th April 2007, 12:21 am
Oxford Geek Night 2
If you missed the last Oxford Geek Night, you really owe it to yourself to make it to the next one. If you were there then you shouldn’t need any convincing. [... 180 words]
Hacking del.icio.us with Python. Nat introduces snaflr, a Python script for republishing selected links from a number of del.icio.us users to one communal account. 6th March 2007, 11:11 pm
Oxford Geeks hit the media! Coverage in the local newspaper and on the radio, with MP3s. 25th February 2007, 2:12 am
A Gathering Of Geeks. The Oxford Mail’s coverage of Nat’s Oxford Geek Night event. 22nd February 2007, 9:35 am
First Oxford Geek Night a success! It really was the best evening geek event I’ve been to in a very long time. 9th February 2007, 12:51 am
Del.icio.us fun with automated links. Nat’s documented one of del.icio.us’ least promoted features—the ability to auto-post your links to your weblog once a day. 25th December 2006, 12:26 am
Fast and Simple Usability Testing. Nat’s 24ways article on practical usability testing (and hedgehogs). 16th December 2006, 12:20 am
notes.natbat.net. Nat’s been blogging up a storm recently. 7th December 2006, 12:52 am
Using hasLayout to fix bugs in IE. With illustrative screen shots. 2nd December 2006, 2:10 pm
Natalie Downe: Inline image quotes. Neat CSS trick this one. 22nd November 2006, 12:29 am
Girlfriend as a case study
I’ve been helping my girlfriend recreate her site using CSS and structural markup. She’s new to web design and has been taking to CSS like a duck to water—as a veteran of Microsoft Word globally defined styles come to her naturally and she took very little time to cotton on to the importance of seperating presentation from content. I’ve shown her tables as well but she isn’t really interested as she sees CSS as a much better solution for general presentation. I’m hoping to help run an HTML/XHTML/CSS training course at the University early next year with a heavy emphasis on structural markup, standards compliance and accessibility so it’s great to have a guinea pig to play with :) [... 201 words]
