There's a great food delivery service in Brighton called dinner2go that delivers takeout meals from any restaurant in Brighton and Hove. In fact, you can choose meals from a combination of restaurants. Make sure you check out their special offers -- they have coupons for free wine, chocolates and stuff.

Their number: 0845 880 4040. They're open 11am-11pm most days and 12am-10.30pm on Sundays and bank holidays.

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I can't believe these people! The BBC, under the name of TV Licensing, appears to be raging a war of terror on the population of Britain and I have no idea why anyone here puts up with it.

I walk in from a fun and tiring few days at BarCampLondon2 to be greeted with an anonymous letter addressed to "The Legal Occupier". I open it and find yet another threatening letter from the BBC.

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I just presented at BarcampLondon2 on a little API extension I've been working on as a hobby for Twitter called TwitAPI. I found the official Twitter API slightly limiting when playing around with Friend or Follower. Specifically, there isn't a way to get a list of someone's friends without actually having their login information. And there's no support for adding, removing, following and leaving friends. Well, there wasn't, until TwitAPI :)

Basically, TwitAPI does the ugly work behind the scenes and gives you a simple API for accessing these features. Thanks to Amfphp, you get a Flash Remoting and JSON interface. And, for the getFriends call, I created an XML option as well.

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Heads up, everyone: 3D is about to explode on the Flash Platform in a big way!

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I just saw in a pingback that someone copied two of my blog posts to pass off as their own. No credit, nothing. Wow! Talk about a great way to get yourself noticed! :)

RexyStudios, who ripped off my blog posts on User Interface Design Principles for Web Applications (ripped off copy here) and Best Practices for client-side validation in Flex 2 (ripped off copy here) are, according to their Founder and CEO, Anthony G. Persaud on their About Us page, a "new type of design/development type of group". This must be a new type of design/development that doesn't respect the intellectual effort of others enough to give them credit for their work when copying it. What a horrible way to market a company that works with IP. Can you trust such a company with your own projects? If they don't spare a thought to ripping off blog posts, what about source code and company secrets? In a line of work where trust and reputation are paramount, I cannot think of a worse way to shoot yourself in the foot.

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