Jon Winstanley
Web Developer
Goodreads For Movies
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
Imagine being presented with a list of your friend's favourite movies just as you step through the doors of your local cinema. In fact, imagine that a couple of your fiends have also added...
Windows 7 Taskbar Usability
Friday, October 28th, 2011
The Windows 7 taskbar drives me crazy. Surely a feature as important as the taskbar will have been thought through to the nth degree? It is possibly the most fundamental user interface element in Windows as it is the primary control of switching between the programs/windows you are using. (You can alt-tab between programs too, but without the taskbar, windows would be pretty daunting for the...
What to tweet?
Sunday, July 17th, 2011
How to promote your business on twitter
Twitter is a great way to promote your business and to keep your fans informed of what you are working on. It is fast and allows a company to communicate with their...
Google Chrome has become the most important project in modern computing
Thursday, May 12th, 2011
Initially, the Chrome browser was created to bring some new thinking to the web browser market. It aimed to be secure, fast, simple and stable and within 3 years it gained a significant part of the...
Symfony fatal error: Call to a member function getRelatedTableName() on a non-object in addon\propel\sfPropelManyToMany.class.php
Friday, January 7th, 2011
When trying to add an admin_double_list to manage associated records in a Symfony project, your database must use InnoDB tables. This is because MyISAM does not have any referential integrity...
1968 Douglas Engelbart demonstration
Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
This is a link to the first video in a series of talks given by Douglas Engelbart in 1968.
The demonstration is notable due to the massive impact that the...