im.jbrooksuk blog

This post is a bit different to my others since I’m not really writing about the happenings and what-not, it’s more of a public notepad for me to come up with ideas for my application; iTunesTweet. The ideas that I write about may or may not become a part of the stable release of iTunesTweet. [...]

For the past couple of days I’ve been developing a new feature for iTunesTweet – a duplicate song manager which is able to delete all duplicate songs in your library. Currently it’s a very crude method, but it works extremely well and will continue to stay like this till such developments have been tried and [...]

Recently Google have been rolling out its new update to its already massive service, Google Search. Google have gone adrift from its renowned simplicity, to allowing users to change the background of their Google homepage. Currently this feature has only been distributed across several countries, not including the UK. However, you can experience this change by visiting Google.com. You’re [...]

Since the beginning of dawn websites, developers have used images when they wanted to show circles on their pages. But today, I bring you a technique so awesome, it’ll blow your socks off, well stop you using images at least. The only problem is that this requires your visitor to be using a CSS3 compatible [...]

Previously I discussed oAuth via desktop applications, specifically why I chose to use it in iTunesTweet and  a few of the benefits it has over the normal API. In this post I’ll be comparing oAuth over xAuth, explaining the benefits and problems each standard face. What is oAuth? oAuth stands for Open Authorization. It’s an open [...]

I had a long weekend to myself this week and thought that I should use it wisely. Probably preparing for my new job, but nope, I decided to finally recode iTunesTweet. For those readers who have no idea what I’m talking about, check this post I made. The biggest improvement to the re-write is the [...]

Today I discovered a presentation created by an ex-Yahoo employee, Ernest Delgado, although originally created by Marcin Wichary. The presentation shows various examples of the new HTML5 specification soon to be released in all major browsers. Up until today I’ve been pretty short sighted in the fact that I didn’t want to learn about a [...]

Although I joined the first debate last night later on during the time it was aired, what I did see and learn from the parties has really influenced my view on our country and the poor state we’re actually in. In this unusually different post, I shall be looking at politics, specifically what each party [...]

A lot of people were shocked at Apples decision to decease any Flash development for the iPad, obviously that too affects the iPhone and iPod Touch. Apple clearly does not want anyone to develop for their products outside of their ecosystem. This is a very serious move and could have implications on the future of [...]

Previously Google looked at the quality of your websites content to determine how appropriate it is to the current search request. Recently however, they’ve been busy working and added an extra decision based on the speed of your website. On the 9th April, Google Webmaster blog said this: we’ve decided to take site speed into [...]