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New Beginnings 8 Feb 2013 | 04:52 am
I've decided to move my blog to posterous. This is quite a big move because in the process I've also decided to trim a lot of the posts from my old blog. I'm only bringing posts across to posterous th...
jsMin Directories with xplorer2 20 Dec 2012 | 05:00 pm
jsMin is a JavaScript minifier written by Douglas Crockford. It’s a great little app first written in c which strips all white space, comments and carriage returns from JavaScript files in order to mi...
backbonejs django generic view 3 Jun 2012 | 10:54 pm
I recently had a chat with @Deacalion about backbonejs who recommended I had a look into it. So I’ve spent some time learning backbonejs whilst keeping in mind how I might use it with my own Django ba...
Django Job – Worcestershire, United Kingdom 22 May 2012 | 07:23 am
My company is hiring. Details here.
Django Site Login Script 9 Jan 2012 | 04:18 am
Just having a play around with a Python script that will login to a standard Django login form. I thought I’d share it as it’s quite interesting and I’m sure someone might find a use for it. It uses ...
Improve Django SQL Queries Using Debug Toolbar 10 Oct 2011 | 09:51 am
Django’s database querying is there to make life easier but it’s also easy to forget about the SQL that is still generated under the hood. When using Django’s query objects it’s extremely difficult to...
Improve Django SQL Queries Using Debug Toolbar 9 Oct 2011 | 05:00 pm
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Writing functions inside loops in JavaScript 9 Oct 2011 | 04:57 am
I’ve created a short video to help explain what the issues are when writing JavaScript functions inside loops and how to use function scope to solve those issues. Enjoy. Full screen it in order to re...
Writing functions inside loops in JavaScript 8 Oct 2011 | 05:00 pm
I’ve created a short video to help explain what the issues are when writing JavaScript functions inside loops and how to use function scope to solve those issues. Enjoy. Full screen it in order to re...
Code To Give Users Time To Read Feedback 14 Jul 2011 | 01:42 am
I’ve blogged before about giving users of a web application feedback on the page whilst they wait for something to load and also about slowing down the responses from AJAX requests in order to give th...
