If you having trouble with a technology project it might be worth taking some time out, looking at it from a different perspective, and going back to basics to asses the project using PPT (no, not PowerPoint) – that is People, Process, and Technology. Considering these aspects is vital to a successful project, and working [read more...]

I recently completed the Pairs Game I was developing as a project in Flash. It was a fun and interesting project to do and I owe a lot of thanks to my play tester at home for spotting strange issues and suggesting improvements. If you have never played pairs the general idea is that a [read more...]

Introduction For my ongoing search engine research project I need to understand much more about search mechanics, and to gain a deeper understanding of where it is heading into the future. Search engines have come a long way since their humble beginnings out of directory listings and approachable and accessibly keyword search techniques have driven [read more...]

Keywords and Tags play a vital role in organising and indexing the modern web and are used heavily by search engines to classify website content. But, what is a Keyword, what is a Tag and what is the difference, if any, between them? My explanation would be this:

There are two trains of thought which have a negative impact upon the term SEO, or Search Engine Optimisation. There is the train of thought that it is used for questionable activities and tactics to try and take advantage of automated search engine algorithms (black hat SEO). There is also the train of thought that [read more...]

To catch up on this ongoing project read this article: Developing An Application Using Flash and Action Script 3. Now I have a pretty reasonable grasp of the basics of ActionScript 3 and its object nature the next step has been to take a step back and write down the plan for the project in [read more...]

I have been looking around for a while for a new programming language to learn having looked at the possibilities of Silverlight, XNA, and Ruby but I have decided to learn Flash with ActionScript 3. I have dabbled with Flash in the past but really nothing more than could be achieved with PowerPoint. The programmability [read more...]

Search engines teach us a lot about information and a lot more about technology, from the way we look for information of interest to how we can provide platforms for distributed access to constantly changing sources of information. In the context of information retrieval the two aspects of information and technology do not often sit [read more...]