In the last few weeks we have been produced a number of Facebook applications for our clients, including the Andrex “Pup-o-Matic” and Coral’s “Ask a Pro“. Their levels of popularity have been extremely impressive, with the Pup-o-Matic in particular getting astounding levels of traffic – 3.9million spins of the wheels and counting.
However, whilst we are [...]

In the development team, much like in the creative team, we have a group mailing list to which we send interesting and informative things – amongst others – that we find on the web-o-sphere.
Thinking that we may not be the only “dev-bots” out there that would find these of use, I have decided publish a [...]

Whilst coding away today, I came across a little bit of code that I’ve seldom used and rarely seen documented, but is extremely useful for all those of you who try doing image-replacement for text and want it to work nicely in IE6.
My personal technique of choice, and one of the most accessible, is to [...]

Although the development team at Altogether pride themselves on being the best groomed members of the company (any anyone who sees us will no-doubt agree), we have decided to make an exception this November, all in the name of charity (or charidy, if you happen to be a radio show host). For this month, and [...]

It’s taken me a while to allow myself back into the gaming world. Having spent about 5 years as a freelance games reviewer for The Independent I lost my enthusiasm for the gaming industry in general somewhere between writing copy for the banal Mary Kate and Ashley: Mystery Mall (0.5 Stars) and the unending line [...]

I don’t know about you, but the ever since the first time I watched Demolition Man and saw Sly Stallone walk into his hotel room and command the lights to turn on, I have been in awe of the ability to have a room react to your command.
It’s not that I’m lazy, I just love [...]

A good friend of mine recently booked a holiday, and asked me to look after her pet mouse, Colin, while she travels.
Now, although I like to think of myself as an animal-friendly type (I am piscetarian, apparently, or in American, pescetarian, so I only hate fish enough to eat them, no other animals), I was [...]

So the latest DC bash went off without a hitch (for all those who aren’t doing the tidying up (sorry Ade and Danni) / nursing their wrist (Hils) / re-stitching their clothing (Justin) / feeling generally awful (basically everyone else who isn’t Rupert)), including much food, drink and general merriment. Aside from the fantastic movies [...]

Just to add a little flavour to the world of PHP, we’ve discovered one of the best error messages ever:
“Unexpected T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM”
Now, whilst you may think this is some kind of unexpected alien attack, it is in fact hebrew (oh, how my ancestors would be so proud), meaning 2 colons. That’s not in the sense that [...]

So, a friend of mine has decided that a great idea for a holiday next year will be to take part in a rally… of sorts. I don’t mean one of those rallies where people go and picket a member of parliament for something worthwhile, this is the type that involves 4 wheels and a [...]