• Not so rapid application development

    I recently re-launched hasyourbabyarrivedyet.com, my super, super simple birth announcement service. I’ve rewritten it in Laravel: a PHP-based rapid application development framework. And one thing I learned is that launching even a super, super simple web application in public is a far from rapid process. Hasyourbabyarrivedyet.com is basically a big red button that changes the […]

  • Job Titles

    I think that the distinction between developers and designers is actually an important one that we should keep, not throw away.

  • WebDevConf 2014 – full notes

    Introduction Today was my first time at WebDevConf in Bristol. I was taking notes as I went. These are currently un-edited, and will probably make more sense to me than they will to others. But there might be useful tips and links in there. I may edit/tidy up at some point. Here’s the silly intro […]

  • Where are you?!

    From the moment I first heard of Google Latitude I wondered why on Earth I'd want to tell the world where I was.

  • notsoeasyhosting.com/tricky.css

    I'm currently running...err...at least 4 small web-based projects at the moment, so I'm getting to grips with Hosting, DNS and CSS again.

  • Debugging the Borders

    Nothing...NOTHING I've ever come across is as unpredictable, complicated, difficult to get right, and downright confusing as this.