Blacknight Domain Sale

Written by Keith on the 18th December, 2009. Filed under: General

Over at Blacknight Hosting, they have a great sale on at the minute with domain names. If you are about to purchase a new domain name, definitely give them a look over.  Some extensions are are due to expire by December 31st 2009 and the rest run into 2010.

  • .info – €4.95 1 year registration.
  • .com – Registrations and transfers reduced to €4.99 / year – discount in cart
  • .mobi – €6.75 / year (transfers too!) If you add the Wordpress Mobile pack you’ll have a mobile ready website in no time!
  • .eu – €2.95 / year (registrations)
  • .im – €4.95 / year
  • .me – €11 / year
  • be – €2.99 – transfers too!
  • co.uk – €3 / year – discount in cart
  • .ie – registrations AND transfers reduced to €16.95 / year. Discount in cart. Offer valid on ALL registration periods. No limit per customer. Offer ends December 31st 2009

A List Apart Survey 2009

Written by Keith on the 15th December, 2009. Filed under: General

Since 2007, A list Apart have conducted a survey ‘for people who make websites’. The survey only takes a minute, so if you are involved in any way with the web, take the survey, it only takes a few minutes.

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Early Christmas Present: Logo Book

Written by Keith on the 13th December, 2009. Filed under: General

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Thought I’d treat myself to an early Christmas present :)

Eire Studio is on facebook

Written by Keith on the 9th December, 2009. Filed under: General

I have to admit, I haven’t given facebook much time (well, apart from farmville, cough) due to other services such as twitter etc. So last month I thought what the hell, why not create a fan page and see where it goes.

It’s actually surprisingly fun. Eire Studio has 35 fans at present and I am posting some design work that I haven’t included on this site… yet.

So if you fancy it, become a fan now! :)

Eire Studio Facebook Fan Page

Google release Closure Tools

Written by Keith on the 8th November, 2009. Filed under: General

closureI just got word that Google have released their in house JavaScript library to developers, some of the tools used to create Gmail and Google Docs.

This is fantastic news and another reason to heart Google.

Millions of Google users worldwide use JavaScript-intensive applications such as Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Maps. Like developers everywhere, Googlers want great web apps to be easier to create, so we’ve built many tools to help us develop these (and many other) apps. We’re happy to announce the open sourcing of these tools, and proud to make them available to the web development community.

Below are the three main tools they have open sourced.

Closure Compiler

The complier is a tool that optimizes JavaScript code to make it more lean, less buggy and basically to make it run faster.

Closure Library

Now, The Closure library looks the most interesting and is something I can’t wait to get my teeth into. The library has an array of features from widgets to DOM manipulation. Their demos look great and this is going to make alot of web developer happy.

Closure Templates

Closure Templates simplify the task of dynamically generating HTML. They have a simple syntax that is natural for programmers. In contrast to traditional templating systems, in which you use one big template per page, you can think of Closure Templates as small components that you compose to form your user interface.

Absolute fair play to Google for giving back… yet again to the community. And now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to try these out.