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Archive for 2010
Jumbo Bean Bags launches
igoo have launched the e-commerce website for Jumbo Bean Bags, the ridiculously large and comfy furniture for the home and garden.
The CMYK bean bag range is the first in a line of stylish and colourful releases from the company. The CMYK range is built around the 4 colour printing process with each bag being matched identical to their counterpart on the colour scale.
Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black, they’re all the same size and are big enough to sleep on or even better just to lounge on.
We’ve just placed an order so should have two bags in the office on monday!
For free 48 hour delivery check out jumbo bean bags.
Nicholas Christakis: The hidden influence of social networks
We’re all embedded in vast social networks of friends, family, co-workers and more. Nicholas Christakis tracks how a wide variety of traits — from happiness to obesity — can spread from person to person, showing how your location in the network might impact your life in ways you don’t even know.
Great talk about the intrinsic value of the social networks within which we all reside. If you can get past the first few minutes when he’s almost shouting and you keep reminding yourself its not an elaborate new advert for T-Mobile, it’s very interesting. It also partly explains why everyone who works with us is slim and in a perpetual state of happiness.
Jim Coudal on “What’s Next?”
I don’t know what’s next! It’s kind of a joke, but we’re proudly “without business plan” in our 13th year. We’ve had a lot of things not work, and that’s OK too. If it’s a good idea and it gets you excited, try it, and if it bursts into flames, that’s going to be exciting too. People always ask, “What is your greatest failure?” I always have the same answer – We’re working on it right now, it’s gonna be awesome!
more readable method to show print_r output
We’re working on a lot of projects at the moment that require tons of data being shifted around, usually asynchronously. During the development stage its sometimes useful to print all your available data to the screen so you can see if anything is being sent over incorrectly (or not at all). The usual print_r function dumps the output of an array to the screen in a giant block with no linebreaks or intentation, making it difficult to scan read.
After a quick browse i came across a few neat functions which will allow a more human readable version to be printed to the screen, and after some small modifications to the syntax, we arrived at this…
1 2 3 4 | function print_r_html($data) { echo '< pre >' . print_r($data, TRUE) . '< / pre >'; } |
I had to put some spaces in my pre tags because the syntax highlighter didnt like it, so make sure you take those out
Slip this into your common/misc functions file (we use a functions file specifically for debugging during development so we can activate/deactivate it for use in a live environment) and then simply call it with
1 | print_r_nice($data) |
Some examples i found had checks in to make sure the variable being passed was an array but thats almost always redundant for our purposes, so out it goes. In case anyone was wondering the ‘TRUE’ just prevents the output of print_r from being returned before we’ve had a chance to do anything with it.
Launch of Neighbourhood Cafe website
On Wednesday igoo launched the website for ‘Neighbourhood’ a family run restaurant set in the heart of elegant Childwall, Liverpool. “Eating at Neighbourhood is like a cross between having a meal in a Parisian bistro and going out for dinner at the house of an old friend.”
This site represents the combined efforts of the excellent graphic design and illustration skills of jack@igoo, photography by Hoy Photography and website design by the rest of the igoo team… Pour the champagne!
Towel Folding Robot
This video of a towel-folding robot somehow manages to be fascinating and humourous at the same time. On judgement day they’ll remember all the times we made them fold our towels.
There is so much here. The “previously-unseen towel” part of the title, the slightly-femmy movements of the robot, the way the 50X speed-up makes it look like a Svankmajer film, the diligent care with which it smooths out each towel when it’s done, and the palpable shock when it returns to the towel table and there aren’t any left to fold.
Hitchcock Re-Envisioning
Amongst my many loves I count Hitchcock and film poster “Re-Envisioning” in my top two… You can imagine how i felt when i discovered these beauties by Laz Marquez
