Zach Inglis

Update.

• I have been very busy with clients. At London Made we have taken on our biggest client yet and are currently working on that. Keep an eye on my portfolio to see it when it’s done.
• I have been updating tl;dr. My tumblog. With…
  
  1. My photos.
  2. Funny work-related images.
  3. iPad apps.
  4. Interesting reblogs from colleagues.
• I have been photographing lots. To show a few…
  
• I have created some new Flickr Groups…
  1. Photo In A Photo. Pictures conttaining a photograph element with another. Such as iPhone photos or polaroids within our photo.
  2. World Wide Photo Walks. A collection for all Scott Kelby’s WWPW photos.
  3. Pictures Of Photographers In Action. Photos of photographers, photographing or setting up lights.
  4. London Film & ComicCon’s. A collection for all London ComicCon photos.

Me & My iPad. Was it worth it?

My initial thoughts of the iPad were merely of Apple over-hype. I thought it was on over-priced and over-sized iPod Touch. After some time I eventually realized that there was a few ways it could make me money, and would eventually pay for itself.

One of my greatest luxuries I partake in is spending countless hours in the bath. I sometimes chatted to friends on my laptop outside the bath, but the logistics were complicated and painful. When my waterproof case arrives, I’ll be able to wireframe, blog and write. Where better to solve the problems that a website may face when you have a completely clear mind in the bath.

I spend extra money to live in Central London but I do not get to see it enough due to work. Now I have the iPad I can go to the park. Not only is this an enjoyable experience but it is very pro-creative.

Another productive experience is to compartmentalize. Keeping chat and email on my iPad means i don’t get distracted and lose my concentration.  

I enjoy the Kindle/iBooks application but i would suggest it is easier to read on the Kindle than on the iPad. If that is your main reason for considering purchasing your iPad, then the price, battery, free 3G and such should sway you onto the Kindle.

One hidden fee of the iPad is the applications. I paid $175 extra in apps trying to get the iPad to a more functional state. 

So in conclusion:
The iPad is a great device. A bit limited and a lot of sparkle, but ultimately for the right person it can be a useful appliance. However, at the price I would not say it is fully worth it for your average home user.

Words You Won’t Find In The Entire Tumblr Codebase

marco:

• Factory.

Ooh; a game.

• Stability

:D

Factories are quite a useful tool with tests I must say. Considering how many finickity bugs do pop up on Tumblr; I could not expect there to be any tests. Granted that the major bugs seem like server load, there are so many tiny ones that I could only imagine would be bypassed by decent test coverage.

I hardly think Tumblr is the right company to preach on HOW to code, though? Especially when the server outages and bugs are getting more often and worse. If anything; you saying shows the reason to use Factories.

Open Letter To Tumblr

Dear Marco et al,

I have just been alerted to your new ‘Ask’ feature, which gives you exactly the same featureset as Formspring.me. I appreciate the fact you are trying to satisfy the Tumblrverse, but everyone would of been quite happy if you hadn’t. There was nothing broken, so nothing needed fixing on that front.

However; Tumblr is probably THE buggiest website I have ever used. Including Twitter. Everything is broken in some way or another and the website can not stay up for more than 50 minutes. As someone who likes to Tumbl and has a few Tumblogs (some with 1100 followers, some with 2600 followers), it frustrates me no end.

Everyone knows the core principles of a successful web application is keeping your feature-set clean, relevant and to do as little things as possible; as good as possible. This is just an un-needed.

Tumblr is a great place, with a great community but having watched quite a few people leave it because of the lack of visible care going into this place, I wonder what really is happening behind the scenes.

Please can you focus on what makes this website great? And less about random new toy features.

Cheers very much,

Zach

“Your portfolio is pink, I hope you are not homosexual”

clientsfromhell:

After having a quite pleasant phone conversation with a client and discussing a proposed strategy for moving forward, they told me they hope I was not homosexual, because my site looked a “bit gay” with the pink.

I wrote off the hour and a half on the phone and did not proceed with any more negotiations.

My submission got through!

This happened to me a few years ago. I had a lot of comments to me over the years on the pink of my portfolio (I only have a dash at the moment; I need to add more) but I never felt so insulted. It was partly to do with the tone.