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Who is this Ben Davis chap?

Ben DavisBen Davis is a freelance web developer based in Derby who loves creating beautiful, content-driven websites. He uses only open source products to power his creations to show that with just a little imagination, endless curiosity and a healthy dose of caffeine anything is possible.

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June, 2009

  1. Design tweaking

    June 11, 2009 by Ben

    As you may have noticed, in the last few days I’ve been tinkering with the design slightly, bringing it slowly closer to the finished article.

    If you like the background, expect to see more of it when release it as a wallpaper. I’ll be doing some colour variations and possibly some Linux badges may find there way on somewhere.

    My big question now though, is do I make the main content black to match the rest of the page or leave it as white to stand out and ensure it’s easily readable?

    Love to hear your comments.


  2. Tweeted this week 2009-06-07

    June 7, 2009 by Ben

    • Five minutes with Bill Bailey; slight recompense for missing his tour this year http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8073976.stm #
    • It’s been a mental 2 days.. no sleep, rats, poison. A trip to the hospital – unrelated, but tiring all the same, happy to say goodnight all. #
    • Finished work for the week – whoop whoop! Two whole days off… cue contented sigh. Time for a beer (I say ‘a’…) and some Benjy time. #
    • Ridley Scott to produce CC licensed (BY-SA) prequel web series to BLADE RUNNER http://digg.com/u14qw1 #
    • WhatTheFont: Great service for finding that elusive font http://bit.ly/Fw2TK #

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  3. Installing Flock in Linux Mint

    June 5, 2009 by Ben

    Before I could even get ready to start reviewing Flock I had to see what it was like to install it. There were a few little niggles to sort out but generally it was pretty easy.

    In case there’s anyone out there who’d like to give it a try in Linux Mint – here’s a guide on how to do it.

    Tutorials > Linux > Install Flock in Linux Mint

    Blogged with the Flock Browser

  4. It’s all iphone, iphone, bloody iphone

    June 4, 2009 by Ben

    Good god if I hear anything more about this damn phone I’m going to scream! I’m sure it’s lovely to use and packed so full of features you’ll never find half of them; but I’m just sick and tired of hearing about it or the latest gadgets available.

    Perhaps I’m just being churlish here since I don’t have one (and have no plans to change that fact) but it just seems to be everywhere at the minute. I’m signed up to several of sitepoint.com’s (usually) great newsletters but I received one today that consisted entirely of iphone information and links to archived iphone articles.

    I don’t care about the bloody iphone!

    They are quite expensive as phones go, surely I’m not alone in not having it? Come on sitepoint, there are far more interesting, audience-including, topics to cover – so tell us about them – not a phone!

    Rant over.

    Normal service will be resumed shortly…


  5. Linux Mint Generated Button

    June 3, 2009 by Ben

    Linux Mint Button

    After a little discussion and some information about how wordpress.com functions from mesanna I’ve quite quickly made the first demo version of a generated button. And here it is.

    So far it’s really just proof of concept, and its code is a little limited but could very easily and quickly be improved, depending on what information you actually wanted to share. The reason I’ve put the date in for now is because it’s the simplest way to show the principle involved here. The date comes from the php function of the same name in this case I used:

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  6. Linux Mint Promotion

    June 2, 2009 by Ben

    Clem, the man behind Linux Mint is looking to do a little promotion for what I think is a pretty damn good distribution of Linux. With the recent release of Linux Mint 7 “Gloria” the OS is really moving forward with some great intuitive additions to the Linux Mint installer as well as their synaptic equivalent.

    But I’m not here to start reviewing Mint… yet.
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