Thoughts on a Decade of Professional Web Jobs
Apparently I seem to have lost a decade somewhere… Maybe down the back of the sofa? No? Oh, that’s right, it went mostly on building websites, with occasional sitting in pubs ranting about usability. I...
View ArticlePython, Pylons, Dads and Development
Way back in February, I did a quick talk at the Show & Tell event on a new side project of mine (slides over here) and forgot to publish this related blog post, hey ho! Here it is in reduced form:...
View ArticleGetting a hosts file onto an Android Emulator
So we’re doing some mobile/responsive design work and I wanted to check what they might look like on various devices before we actually got to full testing. Fortunately having a Mac means the iPhone...
View ArticleIn Praise of Gov.uk
Something extraordinary happened a few weeks ago and I felt like I should mark the occasion: The government launched a website that didn’t suck. No, not only didn’t it suck, this website has a...
View ArticleFun times with Appcache
When we started work on our responsive web app for managing your library service, Soprano, we had planned offline support since day one. However we waited to get the basic product launched before...
View ArticleThe web will always be a moving target
The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed. – William Gibson The web moves fast. Faster every year, what with evergreen browsers across the board. It’s certainly a far cry from...
View ArticleNow with HTTPS
So, if you’ve been paying attention over the last few years, you’ll have noticed more of the web going encrypted. This is a good thing. It keeps your data more secure and stops proxies and malicious...
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