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Good friend of mine has just done a short, 5 minute talk on writing effective user stories. This was filmed at PHP London yesterday.
Definitely worth a watch!
http://blog.mikepearce.net/2010/07/02/writing-effective-user-stories/

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OK, so the headline is a bit of an over statement, but for the vast majority of users on the net, this will be the case.
The theory is simple – use flash cookies for user tracking (in addition to normal cookies).

Flash cookies are not controlled by the browser

They cannot be deleted by the browser
The only [...]

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I am leaving Bloomberg, to work for AOL.

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Just another very quick blog post, this time about loading JavaScript files in web pages, and just a few quick tips, and gotcha’s about it.
This is by no means a definitive list, but if you can do most of these things, then you’re certainly on the right track!

Do not put ‘document.write’ into JS, the browser [...]

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Why I think the PS3 (and I) calculated the date wrong yesterday

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AJACSS

In: Development| JavaScript

8 Oct 2009

This is just a very quick post to talk about AJACSS – a bit of a hack, but a nice way to be able to cross-site AJAX.
Here’s how to do it
“Like JavaScript includes, this works because CSS is not subject to the same-origin policy that affects XMLHttpRequest. CSSHttpRequest functions similarly to JSONP, and is limited [...]

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I work for a medium sized marketing company, and we have an Agile environment. Well, when I say Agile, some would say we do “ScrumBut” as coined by the excellent Scrum Trainer Jimi Fosdick. To this end, if we have good reason for implementing change, then the business are quite happy to take on [...]

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About this blog

The ramblings of Jon Reed. I am Developer at an international news corporation. Everyday I work with various technologies such as PHP, MySql, CSS, XHTML. I Love Web Development.

  • Jon Reed: That's the great thing about trying to track people this way. These cookies are detected/set/get all [...]
  • Mike Pearce: Good post and some useful information. However, the biggest problem with use flash cookies is Apple. [...]
  • Paul M.: Congratulations! [...]
  • Mike: Woo! [...]
  • Mike Pearce: Great post mate, some advanced stuff. What do you suggest as an alternative to document.write(). [...]