New personal best

Well I received the stats from Strava.com (they did an excellent job in resolving the data issue).

Keeping fit for work.

Hello you,

Recently I decided to get in to better shape. A number of other devs have decided to do the same thing and they feel a lot better for it.

So I thought i’d share a few bit and bobs as I go along, these are post mainly for me as a diary and to see if it helps my creativity and energy levels.

My first personal goal is to get in to the top 10 of people to complete the Pedley Hill Sprint.

c# Import Feefo customer and product reviews with .Net

Forward

Recently I was asked to implement the Feefo system on one of the UK leading fashion underwear and lingerie web-site;  www.gounderwear.co.uk .

What is Feefo?

Feefo is a customer feedback system for online business.  Feefo is special as only genuine customers are invited to leave feedback on your service and products they bought.

Getting  your Customer reviews

Feefo offer two solutions for grabbing your customer and product reviews, Javascript and XML.

Javascript Customer reviews

The Javascript implementation is easy to get inserted and running on your website but the downside of this method is that it’s not SEO friendly and will not be picked up by most search engines.

XML Customer reviews

The XML implementation is a little harder to consume. Loading the reviews this way means it can render the reviews at the same time the rest of your page is built. Great from an SEO and performance prospective.

Show me the solution

Base64 CSS Images for speed MSTASK

Hi all,

Following on from previous posts and the possible cheap ways to increase your web-site load times. I thought I’d share a little bit code that helps reduce the number of calls your web pages make when loading images either from CSS or in the HTML itself.

The process is straight forwards enough; It’s just a case of where you want to implement it, either during the build process or at runtime.

iPhone Apps built with Monotouch

My MonoTouch iPhone app is live

Recently I was very fortunate to work on contract for one of the UK’s leading nationwide used car sales company, Carcraft.

During my time with Carcraft, I worked on number of exciting and fun web projects with a really great bunch of people. One of the more interesting projects was the development of the Official Carcraft iPhone app. 

Twitter Plugin MVC .NET – Yet another twitter reader

As I have free time this morning, I thought I’d share a simple twitter feed reader. Yes I know there are hundreds if not thousands out-there, whoever another will not hurt and might just help someone.

Left start with the “File > New Project” in Visual Studio 2010.

2010 in review

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is doing awesome!.

Crunchy numbers

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 2,000 times in 2010. That’s about 5 full 747s.

In 2010, there were 6 new posts, not bad for the first year! There were 47 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 2mb. That’s about 4 pictures per month.

The busiest day of the year was November 16th with 54 views. The most popular post that day was Stag night.