A decade in review
Trigger warning: this post talks about a missing person and some grief. There is nothing overtly graphic.
2021
Module Federation at scale
Firstly, this article is not a webpack module federation getting started guide. I talk here about how this kind of technology can be brought to large compani...
2019
Cotswold 113 training, so far
Its been a few months since I wrote about my sense of doom when I woke up to the new year realising what I’d signed up for in June. The Cotswold 113 triathlo...
Shared code, ten years on
I wrote about writing shared code nearly ten years ago when Javascript in Safari on iOS devices was budding and Flash had its swan song. Thankfully, things o...
Required training for Cotswold 113 has dawned on me 😰
Status: overwhelm
2018
London Triathlon 2018
Last month, I did the Olympic Distance London Triathlon 2018. This was by far the biggest sporting thing I’ve ever done and I loved it.
2015
Documenting your Component Library: Who’s it for?
I was made aware of the impressive looking Fabricator from Paul Lloyd earlier today, but it reminded me of a thought process we went through with Dough. Here...
Making with Dough
Over the last year, the Money Advice Service has been putting together a reusable component library for use on our site. It’s called Dough and it’s now power...
2014
Working in the open
Over the past couple of months, the Money Advice Service has taken the approach of coding in the open, by using public github repositories. As a reasonably l...
Saying “the geek stuff is your job” is no way to launch a startup
As developers in a time where everyone wants their own side project/startup/the next <insert latest cool company here>, this is surely our time to shin...
2013
Animate on Arrival
A week or so ago I tweeted about a trend I've been referring to as 'animate on arrival.' Since then I've been seeing more and more of them, and a) wanted to ...
2012
Taking the scenic route
When I was 12, I took up the drums. Like any instrument, or indeed any new skill, there's an endless amount of seemingly boring stuff to muddle through after...
My Dad is Missing
I don’t usually use this space for personal musings, but this is an important one to me. My Dad has been missing for a month now, leaving his house in Surrey...
2011
Loving the Web Inspector & Saving its Work
The past couple of months have been pretty intense and fast paced: a project that consisted of two interaction designers, two visual designers and three deve...
Using HTML5 Canvas for Image Masks
Recently I've found myself referring to Jake's (the bastard legend that is) HTML5 Video with alpha transparency demo for reference into some pixel manipulati...
Adding Selector Support to jQuery.get() to get page fragments
Just wrote a little plugin whilst working on a project because I keep finding myself using this functionality and having to write a handler in my application...
2010
Skinning the YouTube Player with HTML5 Video Support
Where we are now So it seems that the YouTube Player API doesn't offer any support for the HTML5 video player, while the standard Embed code does. It kinds o...
CSS3 Text Effects with Webkit Masking
Dead easy but cute little technique this one. I'm working with a design that had an overlay effect over some of the text based headings. The way I've seen it...
Enhancing jQuery’s animate function to automatically use CSS3 transitions
On a client project recently, we've been working with some heavy full page transitions, which can look extra lovely when on hardware accelerated browsers and...
Writing HTML and CSS for Mobile Safari. Just the same old code?
The answer is "kind of". I'm a believer of the "write once, deploy anywhere" attitude. I'm also a big fan of things like WhitherApps; James has done a great ...
Making an Interactive SVG London Tube Map with Raphael JS
The London Tube Map is a wonderful thing. Making it interactive makes it even more wonderful. The possibilities of what can be done with a fully interactive...
Top of the Geeks: The Top 5 Comedy Geek Music Videos
Its Monday, its raining and if you're a geek (or even have geeky inclinations and are in denial about being one), you might be able to extract some joy from ...
Using Rails and the new Lulu Publication API
Just a quick note to anyone interested in playing around with the Lulu Publication API and Ruby on Rails, the post I wrote a few months ago has been updated ...
Export SVG from Raphael JS to create a PNG bitmap
Update I'm very pleased to be able to say that Jonathan Spies has taken the roots of this blog post and produced a fully fledged plugin. I've used it on a co...
Using Ruby on Rails and the Lulu Publication API [UPDATED]
In the past week or so I’ve been working on a little side project that is making fairly heavy use of Lulu and their new Publication API. It’s a brilliant sys...
2009
Instant Websites
Next on the agenda for myself and the people of Brushfire is the launch of our new product, My Purple Turtle.
Kingley Event Management Solutions
Kingley Event Management Solutions is a leading event management company specialising in the travel sector. Established in 1988 Kingley have established a re...