Blog archive

May 2012

• What is Web Expo Guildford?
• The lurking cookie monster
• Website launched to bring together the Guildford web community
• Kyan featured in July's .net magazine
• Website redux helps achieve excellence in governance
• Penwythnos yn nhir y ddraig
• Beware the tabnapper
• Humax football video site launched
• We love Ruby on Rails
• Random Typography Spot: No. 03
• Lego vs Frank Lloyd Wright
• Daily brand timeline portrait
• Type on the Web: Don't fight it, feel it.

April 2012

• Spotify coming soon to a website near you
• ScotRubyConf: Geeks On Tour
• Google quietly changes the SEO game
• Kyan intranet gets an iPhone app makeover
• Shoobs shortlisted for Shell LiveWIRE Grand Ideas Awards
• jQuery’s conquest of the web
• SEO success
• The Flip Mino
• Very late to the party
• Flickr... the greatest 90 second video site on the 'net
• Why it's all in the bounce
• No spam please

March 2012

• Internationalisation with Rails
• Better than an iPad 2
• Web Meet Guildford Spring Edition
• Stocking up at Kyan
• Our last.fm listening habits revealed
• There's more to web design than you might realise
• Currency conversion in JS

February 2012

• No, imitation really isn’t the sincerest form of flattery
• An online education
• Web Meet Guildford is back for 2012
• Smaller, more focused events
• Search engine crawler bots feeding frenzy
• Outside the office
• Better sanity checking in Rails
• A tasty new client for Kyan
• Kyan vs. HTML5, round 2
• Number one in Google
• Random Typography Spot: No. 02
• New additions to the Kyan team
• Virtual bleed
• HTML email creation just got a lot easier

January 2012

• Sticking your tongue out
• Behind our jukebox
• Kyan Jukebox hits landmark 60,000 last.fm scrobbles
• New faces at Kyan
• Web Meet Guildford is back
• Our latest trio of happy clients
• Vintage digital photography
• I love lamp
• Cooliris and the 3D wall.
• Warfare Incorporated
• When grids fall apart
• Follow the Free, Chris Anderson on Radio 4
• Random Typography Spot: No. 01
• Microsoft really don't want to break the Internet
• Kyan Vs Computer Strategies Bowling Challenge
• I love my Canon 350D but ...
• Internet TV just got a whole closer

December 2011

• Colophon the 2nd
• Kyan Festive 50 2010
• Merry Christmas from Team Kyan
• So long Movember – It's been e-Mo'tional
• MMIX mix – So long 2009
• New cards for Christmas
• Freezing fingers, the solution
• The Kyan Christmas do!
• Kyan Jukebox Festive 50 2008
• Easy image rollovers
• IE8 passes the Acid2 Test
• Size matters (again!)
• HTML 5
• Beat Happening

November 2011

• Hosting Kyan.com
• Kyan.com design process
• Web Meet Guildford is on Thursday Nov 24th
• Kyan.com colophon
• The Movember Brothers of Team Kyan
• Web Meet Guildford is live
• Don't miss the Christmas Post-It
• Below the page fold
• Search Engine Paranoia
• We love the typography on the new James Bond film
• How To Meet Ladies
• Say no to ugly widows – widon’t for the masses
• The Entifyr
• Email Standards Project launches
• We love music, and we hope you do too
• Raffle.it goes live

October 2011

• We’re now a Heroku development partner!
• Vintage Photography #2
• Website vulnerability scanning tips
• The Best Camera Is The One That's With You
• Why are Google developing cars that drive themselves?
• Web Meet Guildford, join us for a drink
• Garmin Edge 705 Data Recovery with DD & XML
• Kyan Interviewed
• New project, a big challenge
• Cool new website for climate control specialists (and penguins)
• Kyan vs. HTML5
• Yammer-Dama-Hang-On ... What did you just say?
• Google does not use the keywords meta tag
• Mame Arcade Cabinet
• Antique browser still has 25% market share
• How do you rate?
• "DO NOT EAT" THROW AWAY
• BOO! Spooky creative heads
• How Little Things Can Make A Big Difference
• Yammer-Dama-Ding-Dong
• Get on the 'social media' bandwagon
• I haven't had my coffee yet...
• Swings and roundabouts. The Big Mystery Kyan day out ...
• New standards compliant Apple store

September 2011

• Global Git ignore
• One web, one app
• Simple Image Resizing for the web
• No longer number one in Google but we are number 1 in Google.
• The Kyan soundtrack
• New website design for Rokeby School
• Unobtrusive scripting with jQuery
• Hml roubles for I.T. gian Cisco
• Is imitation really the sincerest form of flattery?
• Beem me up Scotty!
• Ultimate Vindaloo v0.1 - beta
• Dropbox
• Website easter egg
• Kyan on tour at d.Construct
• Google to launch new web browser
• How to price your web application
• Campaign Monitor and Web Standards support in HTML email

August 2011

• Doing lots of things - fast
• It's difficult to code without power
• Guildford to Barcelona Charity Cycle Ride, 11th August 2010
• Free Wifi in Guildford
• Optimising for local business searches on Google
• Amazon's Simple Storage Solution (S3)
• Free The Airwaves!
• GPS coordinates where I was not this afternoon
• iPhone lowdown - Do we believe the hype?
• 3G iPhones: They're he-re...
• How API's have changed the 'net
• The tyranny of the new (file format)
• Vanity and Volcanoes
• Ever wondered what to do with Moo cards?
• Shake Shack NYC
• The Importance of Web Standards & Jeffrey Zeldman
• More widgets: SpringWidgets.com
• 'Font Font' FontBook

June 2011

• One web to rule them all updated
• UX London
• Go Ape! The Return of Webmonkey
• Accessibility 2.0
• iWant one of these
• Setting up Ruby on Rails on Media Temple's Grid Service

July 2009

• Now residing at 171 High Street, Guildford
• A plug-in free browsing future?
• Boxwish - Cool stuff you saw at the movies
• The future of CAPTCHA
• Garmin Forerunner 405
• New iPhones for all
• What exactly is Ruby on Rails?
• Last FM widget
• Setting up Ruby on Rails on Media Temple's Grid Service - The Redux
• My new chair
• Kyanos?