Posts in the Personal category

• Review of New Adventures in Web Design 2013

  29 January 2013 by Clive Walker

  Last week, I attended the New Adventures in Web Design conference in Nottingham. This was the third and (probably) last New Adventures and the event lived up to my expectations. It was a day full of insightful and entertaining presentations. Here’s my short review of the best bits for me.

• Reviewing 2012 and learning new stuff

  09 December 2012 by Clive Walker

  About a year ago, I wrote about Learning New Things for 2012 and joining the 12412 project – which was intended to be a starting point for me to learn new things during the year that’s now coming to an end. So, how has that worked out? Well, not that great actually although I have started some new ‘learning subjects’ and increased my usage of some things that weren’t completely new (cheat!). Here’s my summary of the year in that respect.

• Trying out Audioboo and VoiceBo

  12 November 2012 by Clive Walker

  I've joined Audioboo and VoiceBo which are apps/websites that allow you to make short audiologs/recordings via your desktop or mobile phone. Part of the reason for joining was to try something new but also I wanted to take part in #audiomo for November.

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• Starting a coworking group

  30 August 2012 by Clive Walker

  This year, I’ve started a local co-working group in Horsham. It’s always a good idea to regularly review an initiative like this. How is it going? The pros and cons. How do I develop it further? I’ve been thinking about these recently so this post is a good opportunity to summarise and assess progress.

  Firstly, a little back story…

• A personal project

  11 August 2012 by Clive Walker

  I like to run a few personal websites and really enjoy writing articles for these. The articles are not about web-related technical stuff but describe things I get up to in my spare time. I guess this is a bit of a ‘diversion’ for me and one way to get away from my 9-to-5 job as a freelance web developer/designer.

  One of these websites is Clive Goes Cycling …

• What do you do with old websites and domains?

  08 July 2012 by Clive Walker

  I’ve bought quite a few domain names in the last ten years and also created websites on many of them. Some of these have been personal projects where I had an idea for making millions on the Internet (like we all have) but, no surprise, they failed in that respect. I’ve made some pocket money with Google Adsense on a few of them so that’s been good but I won’t be retiring from my day job as a web designer/developer any time soon.

• Making it easy to read more

  13 June 2012 by Clive Walker

  One thing that I've found difficult recently is reading interesting articles outside of my usual working hours. So, I've been looking round for apps/websites that would make reading easier for me

• Learning new things for 2012

  01 December 2011 by Clive Walker

  The last few months have been pretty busy round here with client work so it has been tough to set aside any time for learning new things

• Comments on this blog

  28 June 2011 by Clive Walker

  I try and operate a sensible comments moderation policy on this blog but I see a lot of blogs that do not do this and that have a free-for-all comments policy.

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• Social Hiking - a great web app!

  28 March 2011 by Clive Walker

  I use quite a few web applications and increasingly I am tying them into my non-web activities away from the office. In that vein, over the last year or so, I’ve been using Social Hiking which is a web application developed by Phil Sorrell (@daylightgambler). I’ve not blogged about this before (except indirectly in ViewRanger GPS for Cycling) but I think it’s a great app. Here’s my description and experiences with it so far.