Milburn

I have been working on this project for a few months so I am very happy to announce that Instant Quiz is live. Instant Quiz is an application which creates quizzes for you to share with friends, colleagues or students. Please sign up and try out the application. I would much appreciate any feedback or criticism to help improve the site.

Instant Quiz is still work in progress so some features haven’t been implemented yet. Quizzes don’t show answers and the quiz UI may change. In the next few weeks I am going to try and hook Instant Quiz up with Facebook so Facebook users can create quizzes for their friends to take.

Craig Townsend is another young designer living in my local area. I found out about his recently set up studio in our local paper. His site is called icon:townsend and it features a mix of stock photography, online and print design. Finding clients at 17 isn’t particularly easy but Craig’s done some great work.

I hope that he gets plenty of work to keep him busy and perhaps we can work on some projects together in future.

I signed up to Facebook yesterday. There were several reasons. One of which being that I could develop a Facebook app. I’ve seen many good tutorials on how to build a simple application including this one from NetTuts.
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I’ve just had seen the announcement that Google is announcing a new browser called Google Chrome. The second generation of browsers wars seem to be starting. IE8 is due to be released soon. Firefox 3 has just come out and Opera 9.5 is still around.

Out of all those browsers though Google Chrome will probably remove IE from it’s prime position as king of the browsers. Google has the worlds biggest advertising spot and they will surely be prepared to use it. Google can bundle their new browser with all their products. What if Google said that only users of it’s browser get the full benefit of it’s web applications? Read the rest of this entry »

My first WordPress plugin, the drop caps plugin has been fairly successful so I’m looking to make a new plugin and I need some ideas.

Some of my own ideas include a speedometer which measures the speed performance of your Wordpress installation, analyses the speed of other plugins and your themes, checks files are cached properly and suggests ways to speed up WordPress. Read the rest of this entry »