In the late 1980s it was pretty obvious to even the casual observer that digital editing was going to change the way audio was produced. In 1991 I edited an album – Jubilate, The Central Band of the Royal New Zealand Air Force – on the Sony DAE, a system based on u-matic video recorders.… Continue reading Using ProTools (Version 1.1) in 1992
The old New Zealand Herald site was getting a bit tired, having had its last design update in 2012. It didn’t support mobile well, and the old CMS was, I suspect, becoming quite inflexible. That constraint was probably the reason behind their insights section being hosted on a different technology stack (Ruby on Rails). But despite that… Continue reading Website Review: The NZ Herald
Even though I left RNZ in August 2016, I still get people asking for website performance tips, and for detail on how I made http://www.radionz.co.nz load so fast. Why would you want your site to load quickly? There are many, many, many, many reasons why, but in a nutshell: A fast loading website is perceived as… Continue reading How to make your website fast
