markfoyle

Freelance Web Developer

The Google Fusion API

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Google are everywhere these days.  Whilst Google were primarily known for their search engine technologies, in recent times we’ve seen Google become more prominent as a brand and a greater public awareness of their products as a result. Your average …

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Farewell Fat Albert! Wiltshire’s Hercules leave for the last time

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Today was a rather poignant and sad day for us little folk of Swindonia, particularly those of us that have grown up in the town and have been here for many years. RAF Lyneham, our local RAF base just a …

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Google plus, the new Google Social network. What’s the buzz?

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So today was a bit of a surprise! Google announced their “invite-only” (as all Google launches are) social media platform only a few days ago, and today was the day that it all spread like wild-fire across the Twitter-tubes of …

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Geeking it out – going underground in Oxford…

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I’d been to a few Reading Geek Nights, but had yet to make it to one of the “legendary” Oxford Geek Nights. Working full-time (and all the extra!) for an agency had always made planning such fancy excursions rather difficult, …

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Working on “the other side” – going Client-side

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This is the first in what I expect will become a series of posts about my journey and experience of the transition from working in a top digital agency into the world of freelance. The move from working in an …

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The iCloud – what does it really mean?

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At Apple’s 2011 WWDC, Apple announced the forthcoming iCloud platform which will be underpinning the next generation of the software running on iPhone, iPod and iPads – iOS 5. The ‘Cloud’ has become somewhat of a buzz word over the …

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