Schedules, who needs schedules! In this episode we chat about a few interesting stories and sites we have stumbled across and discuss some of the upcoming features destined to appear in WordPress 3.6. Now with added music!

• Modern IE
• Those Who Make
• HD Live
• Made by Hand
• Wooden Specs Studio
• Unresponsive Design
• Front-end Performance for Web Designers and Front-end Developers
• WordPress 3.6
• Edit Flow
• Fixie Bike Index

Episode #004 is kindly supported by Handheld – a conference focusing on “big ideas for small devices” taking place in Cardiff, UK on November 27th – 28th. Early bird tickets are a snip at £99 + VAT (regular price £139 + VAT). Read Craig’s post announcing the conference for more details. And yes, there’s a band!

• Handheld Conference
• Niice
• Jordan Moore Membership
• Myo
• VHX
• Harvest
• Xero
• Basecamp Personal
• Codebase
• Gauges
• Github
• FreeAgent
• Google Apps
• Rails Casts
• Plaid Maker
• Stachist

Thanks again to Handheld Conf for supporting this episode

This weeks show is kindly supported by Insites: ConfShop — A unique one day event for web workers focused on openness, sharing and learning taking place in London on Friday July 5th. Tickets are limited to 100 and are available for £125.

In this episode we tell you about our new “studio”, discuss the route to inner nirvana (no really), the “problem” of celebrities on KickStarter and ask whether Ghost is the future of blogging as we know it.

• Insites: ConfShop
• JonM
• Vimeo on Demand
• 8 Things Really Successful People Do
• Kwikset Kivo
• Celebrities on KickStarter
• Rockford Files Titles
• Ghost: Just a Blogging Platform
• Coffitivity

Thanks again to Insites: ConfShop for supporting this weeks episode.

Six links and just under one hour of chat, what are we playing at? Variety is the name of the game this week. We discuss Kieran’s new event, Getty Images big news, magazine web sites, Netflix, coding standards, text editors and round off with the Mark Cuban’s best ever investment.

• The Web Is
• Indie Direct
• Getty Images goes Free
• Digest Magazine
• Uppercase Magazine
• Netflix 2014 European Expansion
• Code Guide by @mdo
• Atom
• Huvr

No it’s not a mirage, this really is #023 of our occasional podcast. We must do better! Excuses are in abundance after which we discuss a whole raft of topics – some even web related!

• Beyond Tellerrand
• Web Teaching Day
• New pricing for The Web.IS
• Mike Kus designed a t-shirt for Shopify
• Cakebrew
• Bringing Pan Am Back To Life
• Figuring Out Responsive Images
• Oozled
• Normalising designs for better quality CSS
• Dog Tech is back!

In this episode we discuss all things relating to web conferences from the different style of events, costs and benefits, the long tail value of meeting like minded people and what you can expect if you are attending your first event.

• Beyond Tellerrand
• Break
• Reasons to be Creative
• MK Geek Night
• Second Wednesday

If you like our show please feel free to leave us a review on iTunes.

Welcome to Back Stories — a new series of one on one interviews hosted by Keir Whitaker (one-half of the team behind The Back to Front Show).

Each episode, unlike the usual show, will come in at 30 minutes and will attempt to delve into the interesting lives of people working in the web, design, tech, publishing, and creative industries.

In this first episode, Keir chats with Marc Thiele — long-time friend and the man behind the Beyond Tellerrand series of web conferences. There’s plenty of ground covered including the early 8 bit days, Flash, events, and more.

Marc Online

• Marc’s personal web site
• Marc on Twitter
• Beyond Tellerrand
• Twumble — Marc’s mostly German language podcast
• Marc’s interview with Keir on Twumble

Welcome to the second episode of Back Stories — a new series of one on one interviews hosted by Keir Whitaker (one-half of the team behind The Back to Front Show).

In this episode, Keir is joined by Craig Lockwood — long time friend of the show and the man behind endeavours including software, events, co-working spaces, and more. In this very open and honest account of his work and life, Craig shares his experiences of working in the web and tech industry.

Craig Online

• Craig’s personal web site
• Craig on Twitter
• Shopish — Craig’s day job
• Fit Stat — Craig’s side project

In this episode of Back Stories, Keir chats with Kurt Elster — founder of ecommerce agency Ethercycle, host of the popular Ecommerce Hacks Weekly video series, author of Ecommerce Bootcamp, and the host of The Unofficial Shopify Podcast.

Topics include the benefits of the “peacock” jacket, naming your company, specialisation, automating inbound leads, productised consulting, and much more.

Kurt Online

• Kurt’s personal web site
• Kurt on Twitter
• “Ecommerce Bootcamp” — Kurt’s book
• The Unofficial Shopify Podcast — Kurt’s podcast
• Ethercycle — Kurt’s company
• Ecommerce Hacks Weekly — Kurt’s newsletter

In this episode of Back Stories, Keir chats with Oliver Lindberg— founder of the new Pixel Pioneers web conference series and all round content guru. Topics covered include how to find speakers for your conference, the role of a good editor, how to improve your writing skills, and how to pitch to an editor.

Oliver Online

• Oliver’s personal web site
• Oliver on Twitter
• Pixel Pioneers — Oliver’s conference series
• The Lindberg Interviews — Oliver’s interviews

Happy 2018! Eschewing a long-standing tradition of not actually releasing shows we are kicking off the year as we mean to go on (for now) with a brand spanking new edition!

Join us for 50 glorious high fidelity minutes (true for one of us) and celebrate five years of the show. We don’t dwell too long on our golden non-award winning archive and go on to indulge in some chat, review a book, have a moan about Kickstarter projects, and for once don’t end on dog tech!

• Beyond Tellerrand Munich 2018
• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
• Space Gray Apple iMac Pro Stuff sold for Thousands
• The Cozydesk
• The Rise, Fall and Rise Again of the Creative Technologist:

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The Gujarat high court rebuked the erstwhile royal family of the princely state of Bhavnagar for its "dishonest intention" to claim a land parcel in an unauthorized manner from the Bhavnagar Municipal Corporation.

In what could be a major breakthrough for N95 masks production in India, two Rajkot-based engineering firms have developed the machine indigenously to make this medically crucial masks. Most companies making N95 masks have been procuring the manufacturing machines from China, Japan and South Korea.

Amid prevalent chaos and uncertainty over access to the essential services and commodities during the lockdown, we bring you the latest updates from your city.

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