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jQuery 2.0 for the modern web

15th May 2013

jQuery 2.0 is upon us, and it unshackles itself from older IE browsers (IE8 and below). Does it make jQuery 1.9.1 a polyfill that sits together with selectivizr.js and respond.js?
- by Marvin
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What is this internet thing anyway?

21st February 2013

Reading ABC coverage of Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s recent trip to Australia, I found this sentence: “Just as Vint Cerf and company, in 1969, had built The Internet for everyone as a platform that didn’t dictate what it would be used for, similarly, 20 years later in 1989, when he created the WWW, it would be… see more
- by Joe
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Big Data and why it matters

18th January 2013

Big Data is currently a hot topic in the world of software engineering but what exactly is Big Data? We have all had some kind of experience in database analysis when we used a management tool like Excel. Unfortunately, these management tools fail when the size and complexity of the database increases exponentially. Big Data… see more
Trends for 2013

3rd January 2013

Happy new year, and welcome to 2013. This time of year is about looking forward over the months to come, and so to that end we asked a few people at Reading Room what they thought might be the big trends for digital in 2013. The results are pretty interesting. Rob identifies the creation of a… see more
- by Michael
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Staying ahead of the game – audit now to ‘future proof’ your organisation

12th October 2012

September was abuzz with the launch of the new iPhone, which seems to be the start of a series of new versions and updates across a variety of technologies due to be released in the next six months. This got me thinking – once you have built and launched your new fandangle website/app/digital strategy etc…. see more
- by Desley
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The Sixth Annual 48 Hour Game Making Competition – Part 2

29th September 2012

A countdown projected onto the wall tells me there’s eleven hours left to go. That means 37 hours have passed since the teams received the three words that would define the next two days of their lives. ‘Spring’, ‘light’ and ‘monster’. Marks are awarded for creativity in integrating these three words, encouraging some really imaginative… see more
- by Chen
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The iPhone 5: bigger is better

28th September 2012

Each iteration of Apple’s flagship mobile operating system, iOS, has seen vast changes, additions, and refinements. With the near simultaneous release of iOS6 and the iPhone 5, this generation is no exception. The sixth rendition of the iPhone brings with it the biggest change to the external hardware in some time – a 4-inch retina… see more
- by matt_s
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The Sixth Annual 48 Hour Game Making Competition – Part 1

27th September 2012

As an entertainment medium, video games have only been mainstream for a relatively short period of time. Motion pictures have been around since the late 1800s and music has been entertaining people since before time was recorded. Games, on the other hand, didn’t really hit the big time until the 1970s and have experienced a… see more
- by Chen
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Implementing Innovation in the Digital Era

6th September 2012

People either don’t know what they want, which is why implementing innovation needs research, user feedback, lots of effort and a number of iterations, whether the solution is in the digital environment or not.
- by Desley
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Complexity vs Effectiveness, or: how I learned to stop developing and love the press release

23rd August 2012

Part 1: Complexity vs Effectiveness First things first: the complexity of a tool is totally independent of how effective it is. Unfortunately, I often see people discuss the complexity of a new digital tool and its broad range of features or unique database structure as a proxy for how effective it is – or worse,… see more
- by Matt
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