Introducing Some New Beta Sites

The last few months have been pretty hectic here in Inspire. After losing two developers, we’ve had to work extra hard to deliver on our promises of nine new websites. Naturally, we were successful. As with all new rebuilds, we have launched these new sites as ‘beta’, running parallel with the existing sites. Check them [...]

YUI errorLogging

As we have decided to start using the YUI javascript framework, I rewrote the logging tool I did for jQuery. I understand there’s already a logging tool for YUI, but if you don’t want to initiate the logger, here’s a quick fix: YAHOO.namespace(’IPC’);   (function(Y) {   var Log = { debug : function(message) { [...]

Szohatzky Heads for Hungary

After bidding farewell to Fabien just a few weeks ago, it’s once again time to say our goodbyes – this time to Daniel, after 2½ years of moaning about our food service. Daniel has decided to jump ship and head back to his native, Eastern Bloc state of Hungary where he will pursue an education [...]

Omniture Reporting Limitations

An ongoing project within the Inspire Team has been to roll out Omniture on all of our sites. Whilst this project in itself warrants a whole blog on its own, another problem that comes out of this is all the reports various users ask for help/advice creating. Recently I’ve been asked how to produce a [...]

Karl Bares Chest

Upon arriving at work today in a vest that Rambo would be proud of, Karl was quick to receive all forms of feedback on his chosen atire. Although covered with matching shirt, we knew his intentions were to rip out the guns. Back in February, we chose male cancer charity Orchid as our first Charity [...]

Advertising Woes pt.1

On the trials & tribulations of placing a leaderboard in and around the site header…

JavaScript frameworks

We’ve been looking around at what’s available and what we think could possibly suit exemplar best.

jQuery error logging

As I may very well be doing alot of development in jQuery in the up and coming future, I decided to start by writing an exception throwing and logging plugin.

Au Revoir, Fabien!

Last Wednesday we said goodbye our best member-of-the-team-who-is-french, monsieur Fabien Grenier. Booo! Fabien has been a part of the team for over two years and, foolishly, he believes someone can offer him more love than that of Team Inspire. This summer, he will be will be heading back to the homeland to get himself married. Even [...]

Switching EOL Styles

There are many things in programming that can p*ss you off. Simple things like line endings in the wrong (or mixed) format are even more irritating. For some unknown reason, occasionally my PHP IDE decides, by itself, to start converting my unix line endings to Windows ones. Yes, I do have the correct configuration setup. [...]