Gordon’s Place

I implemented a very small change to simplepassword.com last week, which has opened the way up for some nice usability enhancements. The change itself was very simple – you can now pass the name of a domain as part of the URL to simplepassword.com. So you can do something like this – Generate a password [...]

Time for a story. Some time ago I was listening to the stack overflow podcast. There was a theme which had been running for a few episodes which was how to track all your different passwords, and how to make them easily accessible whenever you needed them. Most of the suggested solutions involved either password [...]

To paraphrase the opening sentence of The Nerd Handbook, every geek has to have a project or two on the go to keep them out of mischief. Well, my latest side project has just gone live. It’s called simplepassword.com and it’s supposed to help you out with the password fatigue that we all get these [...]

... experimenting with twitter.

I’ve been meaning to mess around with yahoo pipes for a while, so I’ve just built a simple “lifestream” to pull together all of the various feeds I’m currently generating. Have to admit, I’m pretty impressed. I was able to grab a series of feeds, use a different regexp on each of them to adjust [...]

I’ve been meaning to have a mess around with Lightbox for a while now, so I’ve knocked up a little slide show from my flickr “moon” collection. Click on the image at the top of this post to see it in [...]

Great idea, would be really, really useful if it contained some Progress code. Then I could ego search .

I can’t mention any specifics ‘cause I haven’t checked with the clients whether they would mind or not, but there’s just been an advert on the TV for a web app which I developed the HTML front end for. It was a while ago and the system has moved on a fair bit since, so [...]

Been messing about with the new google calendar, just to see what the fuss was about. The one thing that grabbed me almost immediately as one of those simple, but brilliant design ideas was the “Next 4 Days” view. Most calendar apps I’ve used have the option of single, working week, full week and month [...]

Based on a conversation I had a couple of days ago. There are 3 things, or 3 rules, you need to remember when using CSS floats. If you understand and remember these three points then you should never have any bother with floats. Otherwise, well, you might be lucky….

1. Give it a width. Everything [...]