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A Quick and Easy Way to a Cleaner, More Readable Wikipedia 12 Jul 2013 | 06:34 am
Isn’t Wikipedia amazing? Yeah, it’s the butt of jokes about people not researching stuff properly but if you stop and think about it, it’s an incredible thing. A repository of huge swathes of human kn...
xip.io + MAMP Pro = Super-Easy Local Network Testing 15 Feb 2013 | 04:15 pm
I’m sure I don’t need to extol the virtues of working locally via MAMP Pro. One thing that has always annoyed me though is that to test on devices other than my main box, I’d have to either upload the...
Using Bitbucket for Automated Deployment of Multiple Repositories 1 Feb 2013 | 10:31 pm
I’ve recently started using Bitbucket as a kind of off-site backup for my Git repos - it works beautifully with SourceTree as you can have all commits pushed to the “origin” repo by default. Lovely. ...
Blog Post Amnesty 30 Jan 2013 | 01:31 pm
Hello there. It’s been a while. After a promising start to 2012, sadly my good intentions to post more fell by the wayside as other commitments piled up. After a while, I’d lost the momentum that I’d...
Darker Inactive Tabs in Chrome for Mac 8 Mar 2012 | 09:56 pm
I've recently made the switch from Firefox to Chrome as my default browser and by and large I'm very happy with the decision. One thing that was niggling me though was that when you have a lot of tab...
CodeIgniter Conference 2012 8 Mar 2012 | 01:19 am
I love CodeIgniter. So when I found out there was a two-day conference dedicated to it in my home town, it frankly would have been rude not to have turned up. Codeigniter Conference 2012 (or CICONF, ...
12412 January - Responsive Web Design 24 Feb 2012 | 09:27 pm
For me, one of the most fun things about working on the web is the fact that there's always new things to try out - be it a new technology, a new framework or just a new way of thinking about the way ...
New Adventures In Web Design 2012 2 Feb 2012 | 11:04 pm
Following on from the successful first event - my first ever web conference - in 2011, New Adventures made an equally successful return with their 2012 installment last week. The first event set some...
Colour Picker Bug Workaround for Adobe Fireworks CS4 in OS X Lion 16 Jan 2012 | 11:27 pm
Last week I finally upgraded my iMac from Snow Leopard to Lion. I'd heard some stories of incompatibility with certain software but the only thing I could see that would really affect me is the famous...
Smile CSV Scraper for FreeAgent and Xero 10 Jan 2012 | 09:17 pm
Are you happy with your bank? I am. I use Smile and they're five-nines awesome - I heartily recommend them to anyone who banks in the UK. The real killer feature - their ethical policy as part of the ...
