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• Getting to grips with Laravel’s service container

  2017-05-17

  I finally feel like I’m getting to grips with Laravel’s service container. I’ve understood HOW it works and WHAT is does for a while, but it’s taken a simple, real-world example to pull it all together and make it all “stick”. Disclaimer: I may still have all this wrong, in which case correct me in […]

• On making an anti-social network

  2017-05-03

  Building a niche social network seems like an exciting prospect at first, but it only takes a little thought to realise that it's a bad idea.

• Captions please?!

  2017-04-15

• A standing ovation for WordCamp London 2017

  2017-03-20

  This year's event was supremely well-run, full of quality content, and just what I needed as I head into a busy-looking year. Thank you to all involved.

• First Lego stop-frame animation

  2017-03-04

  Quite pleased with my first Lego stop-frame animation!

• WordCamp London 2017: How and why to use screencasts to train users

  2017-02-22

  I'm speaking again at this year's WordCamp London. Find out more about my talk on screencasts for user training.

• Re-learning to learn to code (and discovering JavaScript’s foibles!)

  2017-01-08

  I don’t know JS So I’ve kinda got stuck in to learning JavaScript. I’ve previously said that I think JavaScript is like the assembler of the web: coding in vanilla JS isn’t really something you should do because it’s too easy to get things wrong, so you should have a layer of abstraction on top. […]

• 2016: Year of transition ⚠️ – 2017: Accepting the inevitable ?

  2017-01-05

  2016 was a year of transition. 2017? Well, it's started out with acceptance of things that must be.