http://blog.ultravioletdesign.co.uk Follow our latest little ditties on our blog Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:42:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We’ve been integrating some social media into one of the sites we work on ModernSelling and specifically working with the TweetMeme API which allows users to view the number of Tweets an article / page has received and retweet said article. From the horse’s mouth: The TweetMeme retweet button is for ... http://blog.ultravioletdesign.co.uk/utilising-the-tweetmeme-api/ We have finished an enjoyable project for SPAR International, which involved creating an athletics game based around the button bashing classic, Daley Thomson's Decathlon. When creating the graphics and style for this game we wanted to utilise the nostalgic bitmap effect which you see quite often in Flash games ... http://blog.ultravioletdesign.co.uk/flixel-2-0-flash-game-development/ With the recent shock revelation that Mrs Kipling does actually exist and was once an actress in Corontation St we thought we should make sure that the exceedingly good cakes were as good as we remembered. Safe to say that the despite the implications of some sort of power shift ... http://blog.ultravioletdesign.co.uk/cake-of-the-month-april-2010-mr-kipling/ We have recently built a Flash Game – Traitors – for the Top Gear website: The game, sponsored by Nissan, requires the user to speed through 3 levels controlling their speed by repeatedly pressing X-Y buttons as fast as they can and using their booster. For the purpose of ... http://blog.ultravioletdesign.co.uk/action-message-format-amf/ http://www.vam.ac.uk/microsites/decode/ We decided to have a company outing to Decode @ V&A last Friday and trotted off to West London (yes, we do venture out of East London) to see what we could see. The blurb states: "Decode: Digital Design Sensations showcases the latest developments in digital and interactive design, from small, screen-based, ... http://blog.ultravioletdesign.co.uk/decode-digital-design-sensations/ On Tuesday I had the pleasure of attending Todd Kloots Yahoo! Dev talk on “More Accessible User Interfaces with ARIA”, apart from the added bonus of being located in the new Skills Matter conference and events centre. Todd made a very good presentation and a solid introduction to ARIA for ... http://blog.ultravioletdesign.co.uk/more-accessible-user-interfaces-with-aria/ Halloween special – Mooncake! And what a cake; brought back as a present from Hong Kong this cake holds a dirty little secret. Inside, AKA Scotch egg style is a duck egg yolk. You might think this is normal, ‘cakes are made with egg’ I hear you say. ... http://blog.ultravioletdesign.co.uk/moon-cake/ GOOD produces a website, videos, live events, and a print magazine. They seem to successfully mix an ethical ethos with good design throughout their projects. I came across the results of a competition they have recently finished for the best infographic which would "highlight executive compensation (as in, how much ... http://blog.ultravioletdesign.co.uk/good-infographics/ One of the first blog posts on the UVd blog was about Java application called Wordle which created pretty looking tag clouds based on word occurrences in blog RSS feeds, del.icio.us accounts or any block of supplied text. It is quite interesting to see a peripheral snapshot of how a ... http://blog.ultravioletdesign.co.uk/wordle-updated/ Whilst Gareth was attending the1st linked data meetup I was on the other side of the country in lovely Bristol attending the FOWD Bristol Tour.  The day long conference was designed to let people get a chance to experience what the normal FOWD conferences are like in a place nearer ... http://blog.ultravioletdesign.co.uk/fowd-tour-bristol/