On Aire

I started thinking about On Aire ages ago as a project that would enable me and my work mates to do things we don't get chance to look at and explore in our 9-to-5 but to date all that has come from it is a blog post and a domain registration...

Now that summer has (almost) got a hold of the UK I find that Gina and myself are asking more and more where we could go out for food or a relaxed drink in comfortable yet stylish (poncy twat?) sorroundings.

And so this has started me thinking again about the idea behind On Aire, to provide a personalized guide to *evening entertainments* (tm) in the area of the river Aire (which is about 90% of Leeds depending on how liberal you are).

So hopefully my ever expanding network of half started projetcs will be growing once again with the addition of a social network stylée food/drink bar/resturante recomendation thing.

I'm going to try and get Brain and the Flash guys on board with a nice AIR app (half of the projects name sake, trying to be all web 2.ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh or something) that will make suggestions where you might eat or drink that day or evening.

In theory this could be expanded to any and all kind of events and other fandangled features but I think I want to get some feature, no matter how small, online soon so that it might start getting used and so spur me and the (possible) team on to expan the thing.

So hopefully I and some of the other guys at work will start posting over on the On Aire blog and might even get something on the site. I've got some ideas for the design of the site and features of the app so I'm gonna try and pitch them to the lads and see if I can get something rolling.

Watch this (or that) space for more...

Ohhh so close

Christ I'm slack!

About a million years ago I prommissed some old friends a website for their youth theatre group, I said I'd do it for free as they have alway been good to me and so I set about being really really reaaaalllyyyy lethargic about the whole thing! It comes in fits and spurts, that last one being around the beginning of February, which as Is pretty slack.

So I've done it again; I'm spurting into another fit of enthusiasm and I'm going to put it to good use! I spent an hour last night and I was in the office at 7AM this morning getting it ready. I'm going to sent Hillary and Steve a link and isntructions to the first version of the site, Complete with a few basic pages, a news section and a place where they can document the past, pressent and future production of the theatre company.

I'm going to hold their hand through the innitial setup and hopefully watch the traffic pour in!

The photo gallery bit is about 70% done but I'm going to go live without it now as I reckon watching the hits pile (?? trickle) in on google analytics will spur me on some more to get the gallery up and running. The site looks a bit bare without it so it definitely needs to happen, and this time I think it will! i really really reaaallllyyyy do!

Adobe AIR comes to the UK

On April the 9th me and Brian (I wish he would start to update his twitter again) will be attending the Adobe AIR tour in London.

I'm going to try and think up a little AIR app to celebrate this but I'm going to wait untill the top secret project has finished before I get stuck into that.

I'm also going to try and get Brian to help me out with the ideas and production.

Easter

Over the Easter weekend Gina and myself went up to Newcastle and spent a few days with her family.

Her mom came up with the crazy idea of making some Easter eggs... and here are the results

http://www.flickr.com/photos/greglio/sets/72157604243249700/

Done it again

So I did it again... I was close to getting inyerface ready for it's next/first launch and then I started faffing with Banana Cake which is getting near a point where I feel I might let the gang on the development team at work be my alpha testers although I've realised there are a few more little features need adding before it is actually useful.

Then, I've decided, for the inyerface image management module, instead of learning ActionScript 3 I'm going to cobble it out in AS1/2 just to get it up and running then maybe one day I'll re-make it in ASWhatever.