hello, my name is
nathan pitman.

2013

May

• Goodbye dear friend

• My thoughts on Apple TV Apps

2012

October

• Building a financial buffer and getting paid on time

• 4 person office to rent in Crowthorne, Berkshire.

August

• Must have add-ons for any new #eecms project

June

• One day soon OS X will be free

May

• Gather. A Graphic Novel by Anton Peck

March

• First impressions of the 3rd gen Apple TV

2011

October

• Things about ExpressionEngine 2 that wind me up good and proper

August

• Existing creative apps for designers are not suited to today’s web

July

• Source Code for my Fireworks Extensions

• Hide template based content until a specified date in ExpressionEngine

June

• Alternatives to Flash (for animation) are starting to float to the surface

March

• Let devs prefix your ExpressionEngine variables with a custom value

February

• The iPad as a family computer

• Demise of the Kia Sedona

• Blu-ray is Dead

January

• HSBC Internet Banking Fail

2010

August

• Search stop words

June

• Dribbble

March

• ExpressionEngine Extension: Push to FoxyCart

January

• Part time PHP/MySQL developer required

2009

December

• Email Signatures…

October

• Don’t let the door hit you on the way out

• Kia Reliability

September

• dConstruct 2009

August

• Still no real competition for Fireworks

May

• Web Developer - South East, UK

• OS X pet peeves

March

• Migrating from TXP to EE - Conclusion

• ExpressionEngine Field Frame Field Type: UK Counties Select

• Ruby on Rails Developers - Windsor, UK

February

• An open letter to software developers RE Adobe Fireworks

• Dear Adobe Fireworks, it’s not you, it’s me.

January

• ExpressionEngine Plug-in: US States Select

• ExpressionEngine Plug-in: Add VAT

• Whatever you do, don’t buy a Kia Sedona.

2008

October

• ExpressionEngine Plug-in: UK Counties Select

• Migrating from TXP to EE - Step 5

• The great Staples ‘OrderCare’ scam

• Migrating from TXP to EE - Step 4

September

• Migrating from TXP to EE - Step 3

• Migrating from TXP to EE - Step 2

• Migrating from TXP to EE - Step 1

• Blogging the migration from Textpattern to ExpressionEngine

• ExpressionEngine Extension: NoScript Messages

August

• Building websites with ExpressionEngine 1.6

• Catching an expiring domain name

July

• Free ‘thinking’ Breakfast, Reading, UK… Tmrw!

• ExpressionEngine Plug-in: Encode/Decode

• ExpressionEngine Mug!

• Automating an availability statement in PHP

• Hiding the Solspace Tag Tab for certain Weblogs in ExpressionEngine

• Web Developer - London, UK

• ExpressionEngine Plug-in: Link Target

• ExpressionEngine Plug-in: Member Online?

• Google Mail Labels. Maxlength=40.

• Why choose ExpressionEngine?

June

• Should I blog this?

• Developing for tomorrows web

May

• Red Ring of Death!

• The obligatory Happy Birthday to me post

• OS X desktop as a music video

• Creative Assembly May 08

April

• It’s not you, it’s me…

• Creative Assembly April 08

January

• Hello Mr Cripps

• Jobs @ Erskine Design

2007

December

• 2 x Web Developers - Berkshire, UK.

November

• Web Developer - Berkshire, UK.

October

• The faulty door on our Kia Sedona

• ColdFusion Developer - Windsor, UK

• I want to Buy a Puss3

September

• Hacking Expression Engine to add radio buttons and checkboxes to custom member profile fields

• Junior Creative Developer - London, UK

August

• Digital Designer - Reading, Berks, UK

• My car, for sale: Toyota MR2 Roadster

• Junior Front-end developer - Wokingham, Berks, UK

• SiteVista to become Litmus

July

• Looking for an SEO partner

• Jobs going at Voyage - Reading, Berks, UK

June

• When Spotlight Attacks

• The Snip

• XHTML/CSS Contract - Southampton, UK

May

• Creative Director Reqd - Reading, Berks, UK

• God is in the details

• Joost Invites

• Why is no one linking?

• Just to clarify my position in the Mac vs PC debate

April

• See How it Feels

• Web Developer Reqd - Windsor, Berks, UK

March

• Happy 3rd Birthday Neve!

• Looking for a LAMP web app dev

• Flash/Web Designer Reqd - Wokingham, Berks, UK

February

• A simple JavaScript to toggle page elements

January

• SiteVista launches email testing service

• PS3 downscales Blu-ray to 480p on 720p HDTVs

2006

December

• 2 freelance web devs rqd

November

• Kian Pitman - ‘Hello World’

• On demand Movies & TV coming to Xbox 360

October

• Xbox 360 Autumn Dashboard Update

• Linerider Jumps the Shark

September

• The art of giving

• Xbox 360 to get 1080p

• Design is…

• Web Dev Reqd - Reading, Berkshire, UK

August

• Thank You!

• Happy 1st Birthday Isla

• Creativity in a Telly Stylee

• Goodbye Textdrive

June

• A boy it will be…

• Creative Artworker Rqd - Reading, Berkshire, UK.

• Web Dev Rqd - Dorking, Surrey, UK.

• Inevitable?

May

• Flickrlicious

• Goodbye PS2, Hello 360.

April

• 3 is the magic number

• Oxton gives birth!

• Customer service the right way

March

• Ubuntu, Ubuntu they drink it in the congo

• Free Xbox360

• PS3 launch dates confirmed

• Happy 2nd Birthday Neve

• I ♥ Expression Engine

• Calling all Freelance Flash Developers!

• iPod AV - Real or Fake?

• Textdrive is kinda sucking right now

• Bah, it’s ghastly.

• A fresh lick of paint for Pro-Bel

• Mark of the web (or why IE6 sucks)

February

• 12 Free iTunes tracks (UK only)

• If you just smile

• Carson Summit Podcasts

• Fireworks not dead (yet)

• Featured in Computer Arts

• The Future of Web Apps Summit

• Adding on hover copyright to Lightbox

January

• Subscribe to my podcast with iTunes

• Four things

• 10 questions, the tables turned

• Will you be at the Carson Summit?

• Mac + Intel Ad

• Optimus LED keyboard

• You know you need a coffee when…

• The joys of technology

• The Winning Ticket

• Listen to me Talkr (kinda)

2005

December

• Seasons greetings

• Drafty

• Expression Engine goes free

• Witness my grizzled visage

• Goodbye Macromedia.com

November

• When upgrades turn bad

• Yay, Print ordering from Flickr!

• Basecamp Themes

• Creating Advanced Custom Fireworks Panels

• Google Analytics

• Looking for ASP developers

• Phone Companies May Soon Block Skype

• CSSVista Launched

• Julia Roberts in SPAM scandal!

• 412 Precondition Failed

• SiteVista Review

October

• Taunting Urinal

• Print designer I ain’t (update)

• Third gen Squeezebox

• New tricks with Textile

• First words

• Doesn’t do what it says on the tin anymore

• Decisions decisions

September

• Branding Nine Four (Again)

• Branding Nine Four

• When Flash ‘is’ good.

• All the rage? Animated favicons

• Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars

• 10 questions for Paul Farnell (Going it alone)

• 10 questions for John Oxton (Going it alone)

• Changes afoot

August

• 10 questions for David Longworth (Going it alone)

• I’m a dad (again)!

• 10 questions for Darren Miller (Going it alone)

• Expecting Isla

• 10 questions for Jon Hicks (Going it alone)

• 10 questions for Craig Grannell (Going it alone)

• Installing Instiki on Debian

• Going it alone

• Studio 8 Announced

• How to cut your monthly NTL bill

• Tag parsing in Textpattern articles

• Pah! Out with the Mac!

July

• Learning to slide

• Windows Vista

• Customer Service Bandits

• John Gone Jovi

• London Terrorist Attacks

• London wins Olympic bid!

• Where’d those Fireworks Extensions go?

• Mac newbie seeks Mac guru for short term relationship

June

• 2005 Wish List Update #1

• Setting up a LAMP server, Part 1.

• Taking a bite of something new

• Linux virgin no more

• Linux virgin

May

• Boing boing

• How not to apply for a job

• Available

• Nintendo Revolution unveiled

• Re-writing history

• Sony PlayStation 3 unveiled

• Xbox 360 unveiled & rumours of early PS3 launch

• It’s my birthday

• Looking for talented interactive designers

• Branded bird madness?

• Getting on Google Maps

April

• Adding geographical tags to your website

• Re-design Step 3: Er… start again?

• Let me introduce Baby P #2

• Adobe to acquire Macromedia

• Macromedia Fireworks Beta

• MXNA (2) Public Beta

• Why is it taking so long?

March

• e-receipts?

• Joined-up Website Design

• Wedding Photography

• 12 months as a father

• ‘Extrude Path’ Extension for Fireworks

• Feed me

February

• Time for a new text editor

• Web Developer Required… (Berkshire, UK)

• It’s snowing!

• 50 Gmail Invites…

January

• Giving up Coffee

• VW Golf GTI - Singing in the rain

• Fahrenheit 9/11

• Flash Player Detection Kit Macrochat

• Fireworks Best Practices Macrochat

• Re-design Step 2: Look & Feel Concepts

• Textpattern 1.0?

• Re-design Step 1: Specify Requirements

• Mac mini & iPod shuffle, most affordable ever

• ‘Pinwheel’ AutoShape for Fireworks

2004

December

• Fireworks Tips & Tricks Revealed

• My 2005 Wish List

• Tutorial on Creating Fireworks AutoShapes

• ‘File Info’ AutoShape for Fireworks

• ‘Simple Linked Selection’ Extension for Fireworks

• Sorry…

• CSS3 in Firefox

November

• Textpattern Resources

• Friday fun… eggshot!

• Supersonic!

• Office Manager Required… (Berkshire, UK)

• Senior Graphic Designer Required… (Berkshire, UK)

• Firefox Start Page

• Mozilla launches Firefox 1.0

• NTL to penalise early broadband adopters

• Macromedia DevNet Resource Kit Volume 9 Released

October

• Flash Satay - The new old way to embed Flash movies in XHTML

• For Sale: 20GB Creative Nomad Jukebox Zen

• Styling Horizontal Rules with CSS

• Flash Player 8 demo’ed in Tokyo

• Look daddy I can crawl, and climb, and stand!

• Loadsa Gmail Invites…

• Twist and Fade 2004 released

• Neve is mobile!

• Photo re-touching plug-ins for Fireworks

• ‘Inspire’ AutoShape for Fireworks

September

• ‘Orb’ AutoShape for Fireworks

• Fireworks gives Samuel warm fuzzies

• ‘Define Working Directory’ Command Panel

• ‘3D Box’ AutoShape for Fireworks

• Twist and Fade 2004 sneak peek

• How to steal Fireworks AutoShapes

• Sony redesigns PlayStation 2

• Textpattern cake nearly ready

• Fireworks ‘Ruler’ AutoShape

• Fireworks ‘Stroke Path’ Command

• Fireworks ‘Heart’ AutoShape

• Fireworks ‘Main Toolbar’ Source Files

• Team Macromedia (Fireworks)

• Sidebar / Explorer Bar queries

• Burnout 3 first impressions…

• Twisted Animator Required… (Berkshire, UK)

• In da hood

• Where is Firefox 1.0?

• New Fireworks ‘Color Palette’ Panel

• Mozilla Redesign

• ShaunInman.com Pirated?

August

• Nice or nasty?

• The Flash Anthology: Cool Effects & Practical ActionScript

• Easy comments in Flash

• yugop.com v4

• Armadillo v2

• Rocking Snail!

• Flash Video Kit Announced

• A breath of fresh air…

• I’ve got Art Rage!

July

• It’s all in the detail

• Ellipsis (Flash 7.2) updater out

• Hello youth!

• Macromedia DevNet Resource Kit Vol 8 Released

• Phireworx ‘Image Edger PRO’

• The iPod. Remixed. Again.

• Macromedia announce Flash Paper 2 and Contribute 3

• Fireworks ‘Main Toolbar’ Command Panel

• Fireworks ‘Main Toolbar’ Command Panel progress

• Phireworx ‘Batch Resizer’

• Bookmark culling

• A New Fireworks MX 2004 Autoshape: Ribbon

• Macromedia Contribute Auction (Again)

June

• A grown up kind of green

• Does the kottke.org re-design kinda suck?

• Dare I add drop shadows?

• New RSS feeds at Macromedia

• 2 fingers up to Copy Control Audio CDs (Again)

• Macromedia Devnet Travel Mug up for grabs

• New Beastie Boys Album is Evil (Apparently)

• Bookmark synchronisation

• Macromedia Contribute Auction

• A New Fireworks MX 2004 Autoshape: Wave

• Resources for Extending Fireworks

• Going Pete Tong

• Clients hate scrolling

• Duplicate Offset & Rotate Fireworks Extension is now free

• Firefox 0.9 Released

• All the best blogs have favicons

• Another blog switch to textpattern

• Fireworks Extension Authors

• On the move…

• Fireworks Symbol wish

• Web standards: Who cares anyway?

• Expression (Microsoft’s first product to export to SWF)

• Firefox 0.9 due on the 12th with new default theme

• New Phireworx Commands on the way

• RSS feeds by category

• What browsers do you develop for?

• The mystery of the shifting pixel

May

• Another Flash patch? Ellipsis.

• Populating a Flash Application with data from MySQL via PHP

• Flash Visual Sound Mixer

• Interactive 3D CSS Box Model

• Some neat (free) Fireworks plug-ins

• Project Manager needed…

• Fireworks API wish

• 3D CSS Box Model

• Splash Video

• Drop Shadows are ‘In’

• Junk software

• Two months old

• Happy Birthday to me!

• Blogger Relaunch…

• Out of the loop

• Extending Fireworks

April

• Browsing XML with Flash

• Edge

• Fireworks MX 2004 AutoShapes Tutorial

• Fireworks vs Illustrator via hicksdesign

• New Fireworks Command Panel: Calculator

• New Fireworks Command Panel: Auto Save

• Thunderbird re-branded

• Fireworks Commands Wrapper

• Possible issues with Fireworks MX extensions in MX 2004

• Bad news on the car front

• Page 23

• One month old

• “A9” debut

• Web Accessibility and UK Law…

• Pink Cow(s)

• Small budgets are great

• Fireworks Remote Procedure Calls

• Textpattern plugins

• Cooking with Textpattern

• Great new Fireworks Extensions

March

• 2 fingers up to Copy Control Audio CDs

• Phireworx SmartTabs

• I’m a dad!

• Best ‘NO SPAM’ message

• Making my Dreamweaver Extensions MX 2004 compliant

• Advanced New Document 04

February

• Thunderbird(s) are go!

• Very Occasional Central

• Phireworx blog

• Goodbye youth, Hello responsibility

• Footer Fetish…

• Macromedia DevNet Resource Kit Vol 6 Released

• Make Hotel Reservations

• Dreamweaver Extensions going Pete Tong

• Super Nudge

• It’s been a hard week for my car.

• Badger badger badger

January

• The longest non-classical song

• New mini iPod, iPod mini

• JavaScript support in Director?

2003

December

• Feeling Urgh!

• It’s a girl!

• Something weird with PHP includes…

• Fun with Sessions!

• All change…

November

• Squeezebox!

October

• My employers are looking for a New Media Developer…

• IE changes

September

• The best £200 I ever spent…

• I’m going to be a Dad!

July

• Phireworx release ShapeShifter Set 2 for Fireworks MX…

• Just finished working on this…

• Duplicate, Offset & Rotate now available to purchase online.

• New Aftershape release; ‘Advanced New Document’

• Creative news

• Brian Edgin joins Phireworx as Senior Developer.

June

• I think it’s time for a new web browser…

May

• Writing extensions for Fireworks MX is fun…

• On Monday I reached the grand old age of 26…

• ‘PC World’, full of sales guys who know nothing…

April

• Kleanthis has released a set of 4 new Fireworks MX extensions…

• Phireworx release ‘Super Guides’ for Fireworks MX.

• Yesterday I started my new job…

• Duplicate and Offset most downloaded FW Utility on the exchange…

March

• Peggy Stancavage’s Internet Homepage

• It’s all in his head…

• Hey, I’ve only gone and got myself a new job…

February

• Project Fireworks release first commercial Fireworks MX extension: ‘FireFrame’.

• Style guidelines for publishing Fireworks Extensions

January

• My Fireworks extensions featured in ‘Practical Web Projects’

• Rubberduck launch Sreenweaver MX

2002

December

• Amazing flash page turn effect

September

• 10 days, 1 Camera and some fantastic light

July

• Thoughts on Flash Communication Server MX

June

• Hey! I’m Married!

• Hi, Today I get Married! :)