Quite a lot has happened in and around my little blogosphere in the last few months.
Back in February I mentioned the development blog of my friend, ex-colleague and ex-house-mate, James (Jay) Field's work for his Interactive Media MA project "Frontier".
Frontier is a massively multiplayer online game that Jay is building in Flash. The blog has gone a bit quite at the moment since he was made senior lecturer at the Hull School of Art and Design.
iheartspaceships
Nearly a year and a half ago, Ryan and Andy bought a domain name and said they were going to produce a blog. Yesterday they launched "a day early".
Ryan is a Flash Developer here at twentysix Leeds and works across many large brands on both web and AIR based Flashieness.
Andy is our UI Developer working on many of the same clients and projects but does miraculous things with JavaScript and CSS.
Hopefully they'll have some interesting thoughts soon over at iheartspaceships.com
niid.to
About a month ago James and Tom C left twentysix Leeds to persue a life of love and freedom as freelance developer and designer respectively. Amongst various freelance work that they won't tell us about they also founded niid.to, a social to do list and they have an accompanying blog over at http://niidto.blogspot.com/
26point1
Our Technical Director, Matt, used to run two blogs for the different types of nonsense he likes to spout off about. "matts 2 minute reviews" and "matts random days". Not that long ago, he merged them into one central repository of nonsense over at 26point1. Hop on over there to read about all kinds of rubbish, both technology-based and not...
Showing posts with label twentysix Leeds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label twentysix Leeds. Show all posts
Wednesday, 22 April 2009
Monday, 21 July 2008
twentysix Leeds are recruiting again!
We're looking for a couple of graduate Flash monkeys/developers to come in and help us out on some top class work for about a 6 month period.
Applicants should be strong annimators with good ActionScript skills.
We're looking for people who can start ASAP!
So if you're in the Leeds area, rock Flash daily and want some high profile work at an ACE digital agency, then hit me up at greg.brant@twentysixleeds.com and check out our work. www.twentysixleeds.com
Applicants should be strong annimators with good ActionScript skills.
We're looking for people who can start ASAP!
So if you're in the Leeds area, rock Flash daily and want some high profile work at an ACE digital agency, then hit me up at greg.brant@twentysixleeds.com and check out our work. www.twentysixleeds.com
Tuesday, 15 July 2008
PHP Search plugin link updated
We just moved offices (Photo's here and here) and as such some of our IP addresses changed.
I've recently had a couple of hits to the "Firefox PHP function search plugin" post. So I updated the link so you can now download it again. Sorry for the slight outage.
I've recently had a couple of hits to the "Firefox PHP function search plugin" post. So I updated the link so you can now download it again. Sorry for the slight outage.
Saturday, 14 June 2008
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...
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...
Tuesday, 1 April 2008
Recruitment consultants are a special breed of idiot
Following up on Matt's article about recruitment consultants I want to rant about them myself!
Ten minutes ago I recieved an email from someone at Senitor offering me an excelent Desktop Support candidate.
Now, having nothing to do with desktop support as all our IT is provided by our parent group I wrote said recruitment consultant a polite but concise email stating that I am a web developer, I am only concirned with web development and that I wish to be removed from any mailing lists for IT Support staff, but that it was fine for them to keep emailing me about Flash or Web Development candidates they might have.
So two mins later I recieve my read-receipt and all is well. THEN, five minutes after that I get a phone call from some other chap at senitor saying he's just recieved word from this other chap (who I just emailed) saying that I'm looking for a freelancer and can he be of any help.
So I spent five minutes explaining what I had previously wrote in my email and then informed him that we are acutally looking for a Permanent Senior Flash Developer and that he could rind Matt about that.
He mumbled that one of collegues deals with permanent developers and said he would get him to ring through. The conversation ended.
Wonder if I'll get any more IT support emails from them, or maybe a freelance chef or a mechanic?
Good work recruitment consultants!
Ten minutes ago I recieved an email from someone at Senitor offering me an excelent Desktop Support candidate.
Now, having nothing to do with desktop support as all our IT is provided by our parent group I wrote said recruitment consultant a polite but concise email stating that I am a web developer, I am only concirned with web development and that I wish to be removed from any mailing lists for IT Support staff, but that it was fine for them to keep emailing me about Flash or Web Development candidates they might have.
So two mins later I recieve my read-receipt and all is well. THEN, five minutes after that I get a phone call from some other chap at senitor saying he's just recieved word from this other chap (who I just emailed) saying that I'm looking for a freelancer and can he be of any help.
So I spent five minutes explaining what I had previously wrote in my email and then informed him that we are acutally looking for a Permanent Senior Flash Developer and that he could rind Matt about that.
He mumbled that one of collegues deals with permanent developers and said he would get him to ring through. The conversation ended.
Wonder if I'll get any more IT support emails from them, or maybe a freelance chef or a mechanic?
Good work recruitment consultants!
Wednesday, 26 March 2008
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.
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.
Tuesday, 25 March 2008
How many developers does it take to figure out some stats
Matt, Andy and Rich stress over some numbers
Help wanted
Apply within,
As you may or may not have read, recently I have been revisiting places long forgotten in im persona and filling some boots as a hardcore Flash developer. During this time it has become apparent that we need a Senior Flash Developer!
So it gives me great pleasure to announce that the company I work for, twentysix Leeds are recruiting a new Senior Flash Developer.
The role requires years and years of expert experiance of Adobe Flash, ActionScript 2 and ActionScript 3. Knowlage of Object Oriented techniques and all the other usual stuff is a must! Knowlage of other web technologies are a bonus so don't forget to tell us about them when you email Matt with your application (matt.pallatt@twentysixleeds.com ).
If you think you might be interested then why not head over to our portfolio and see what kind of work we do for fantastic clients such as HUGO BOSS Fragrances, Lacoste and Silent Night Beds amongst others.
As you may or may not have read, recently I have been revisiting places long forgotten in im persona and filling some boots as a hardcore Flash developer. During this time it has become apparent that we need a Senior Flash Developer!
So it gives me great pleasure to announce that the company I work for, twentysix Leeds are recruiting a new Senior Flash Developer.
The role requires years and years of expert experiance of Adobe Flash, ActionScript 2 and ActionScript 3. Knowlage of Object Oriented techniques and all the other usual stuff is a must! Knowlage of other web technologies are a bonus so don't forget to tell us about them when you email Matt with your application (matt.pallatt@twentysixleeds.com ).
If you think you might be interested then why not head over to our portfolio and see what kind of work we do for fantastic clients such as HUGO BOSS Fragrances, Lacoste and Silent Night Beds amongst others.
Friday, 14 March 2008
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