Barry Frost

Web: barryfrost.com
Email: public@barryfrost.com
Bio: Barry Frost is a web developer based in Windsor, England.

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He makes sharp websites and web applications using a mix of ColdFusion, Ruby on Rails, PHP, Flash, MySQL and of course HTML/CSS.

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twitter: is crossing fingers that the order for his work iPhone has gone through today before some blighter snaps up the last one

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Trips from Dopplr:

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Recent Last.fm tracks:

• Led Zeppelin – Tangerine
• Led Zeppelin – Gallows Pole
• Led Zeppelin – Out on the Tiles
• Led Zeppelin – Since I've Been Loving You
• Led Zeppelin – Celebration Day
• Led Zeppelin – Friends
• Led Zeppelin – Immigrant Song
• Led Zeppelin – Bring It On Home
• Led Zeppelin – Moby Dick
• Led Zeppelin – Ramble On

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Latest Del.icio.us links:

1. iCal, Google Calendar, BusySync and MobileMe

   All sounds rather messy to me. I'm not sure if push is worth all the faff

   • ical
   • google
   • gcal
   • busysync
   • mobileme
   • calendar
   • synchronisation

   2008-07-23T17:45:31Z

2. How to Detect the Social Sites Your Visitors Use

   Finds out which sites you visit based on browser history

   • history
   • browser
   • javascript
   • social
   • hack
   • web

   2008-07-23T17:22:42Z

3. Using your browser URL history to estimate gender

   Examines link colours to see if you've visited certain male or female dominated sites

   • browser
   • history
   • gender
   • javascript
   • stats
   • advertising
   • web

   2008-07-23T17:21:57Z

4. Stoooopid .... why the Google generation isn’t as smart as it thinks

   Attention spans waning, distractions increasing, kids interested only in gossip. We're doomed! Doomed!

   • society
   • news
   • media
   • distraction
   • attention
   • gossip
   • productivity
   • culture
   • internet

   2008-07-23T12:26:47Z

5. Drizzle, Clouds, "What If?"

   A new project to create a slimmed down MySQL targeted at web apps - UTF8, InnoDB and no stored procedures or other guff

   • mysql
   • web
   • community
   • database
   • opensource
   • utf8
   • innodb

   2008-07-23T07:19:14Z

6. Perl on App Engine?

   Perl possibly to be supported as GAE language. This is sure to kick off speculation about adding Ruby and PHP.

   • appengine
   • google
   • gae
   • perl

   2008-07-23T07:17:57Z

7. PHP 101: PHP For the Absolute Beginner

   • php5
   • php
   • tutorial
   • zend
   • dev
   • beginner

   2008-07-20T17:34:23Z

8. Using a Custom Class To Create JSON in PHP

   • json
   • php
   • class
   • dev
   • javascript

   2008-07-20T09:35:18Z

9. WP Super Cache

   Possibly the best WP cache out there

   • cache
   • wordpress
   • blog
   • performance
   • static

   2008-07-20T09:34:43Z

10. Fonts available for @font-face embedding

    (whereby the author has licensed their use)

    • font
    • embed
    • css
    • design
    • typography
    • free
    • licence
    • web

    2008-07-20T09:34:00Z

11. Will Mainstream Users Ever Learn About The Browser's Address Bar?

    Many users don't enter domains, they search for them. Nor do they distinguish between paid ads and organic listings

    • browser
    • google
    • navigation
    • url
    • trends
    • work

    2008-07-20T09:32:39Z

12. BBC - Radio Labs - Some iCal views into /programme data

    iCals for BBC programmes

    • bbc
    • ical
    • calendar
    • data
    • tv
    • uk

    2008-07-20T09:31:05Z

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Barry always likes to receive email from nice people.