29Sep2015
Apple's iOS9 Wi-fi Assist, Save Your Data Now!
With the release of iOS9 last week, Apple announced a new featured called "Wi-Fi Assist". With this featured turned on, users won't experience any buffering or connection difficulties on a weak Wi-fi signal.
15May2015
Developer burnout, it's a thing!
Ever felt exhausted and your interest slowly diminishing? Assuming you’re a developer reading this, you may have “Developer Burnout”
2Mar2015
Apple iOS tracking your every move
For those for you unaware of the inbuilt GPS in your smartphone and its capabilities, you may want to sit down for this.
20Feb2015
HTTP/2 is approaching at warp speed
From the early days of painful 33.6k dial-up, to high speed cable broadband and 4G, we’ve all experienced the highs and lows of internet speed. Well, the web is about to get faster!
21Jan2015
Umbraco 7.2 Compositions
With the latest release of Umbraco 7.2, we’re given a cool new feature called ‘Compositions’ for document types.
14Jan2015
12Dec2014
No, you can't win a free car on Facebook
I'm sorry to burst anyone's bubble, but please listen to me when I say that you cannot and will not win a car on Facebook, ever.
26Nov2014
Where do your selfies live?
A look into server farms, and where all the "How to's", selfies, posts, comments, photos and videos live.
22Oct2014
A Developer's Guide to Upgrading to Google Universal Analytics
Universal Analytics is the new operating standard for Google Analytics. After an upgrade you’ll receive the benefits of Universal Analytics which include the new collection methods and reporting tools.
23Sep2014
Is Your HTTP Redirect Losing Your Querystring?
On a recent project, I encountered a strange redirect issue in the production environment. For the sake of SEO and canonical/duplicate content issues, we always setup two websites in IIS; one will have a 301 redirect from a non-www domain to a www domain.
3Sep2014
Mobile Commerce Finally Trumps Desktop
According to the latest IMRG Capgemini Quarterly Benchmarking report, approximately 52% of visits to retail websites took place on a mobile device, overtaking desktop traffic for the first time ever.
18Jul2014
Stop using strong passwords, everywhere
New reports have come in after new research from Microsoft argues that weak passwords have their place, and for users to instead conserve their brainpower where it is needed instead of remembering complex and arbitrary passwords.
16Jun2014
Chrome's Font Face Anti-Aliasing Issue
Annoyed at how Chrome renders fonts with subpixel anti-aliasing, which in turn can make fonts look more jiggered than other browsers?
16May2014
Your website code needs to be faster
There’s many a reason why your website should load fast, however some brief facts show that it’s no surprise that the human attention span is becoming shorter and shorter as technology evolves.
14Mar2014
The Car Analogy
As developers, we’re often involved in client meetings and called upon to explain technical details in a fairly “layman’s term” way to help communicate the idea to the client.
20Jan2014
The Vary HTTP Header
When developing mobile websites, responsive or adaptive, there are some important factors to consider outside of the IA involved with UI and design.
1Oct2013
Using jQuery with CSS Media Queries
As the world goes mobile, as web developers, we have a number of approaches available to us in terms of device detection and whether we go server-side or client-side.
24Jul2013
25Jun2013
Better Mobile Development
I’ve thought of some tips I like to stick by when building a mobile site, specifically adaptive
20Jun2013
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15Nov2012
Creating Umbraco Custom Data Types
Umbraco Custom Data Types are a super simple and effective way to bring increased functionality to your Umbraco project.
24Aug2012
CSS Max-Width and Max-Height Properties
Let me introduce you to the max-width/max-height properties.
7Jun2012
Umbraco Date Folders
Ever wanted to automatically sort your nodes into date folders by day, month, year? With the ‘DateFolders’ package, you can!
21Mar2012
Is Your Website Mobile Ready?
Have you thought about your website and whether it’s easy to navigate with the flick of a thumb?
1Dec2011
Umbraco Membership Provider
Implementing the ability for front-end users to register as members on an Umbraco managed website is one of the easiest things you’ll need to do when working with Umbraco - everything is there for you!
31Oct2011
Umbraco’s isLast() / isNotLast() Methods
In the past, it’s always been a case of iterating through a loop and setting a counter variable to determine the index or position an item or node is currently at. Since playing around with Umbraco this week, I’ve found some pretty useful methods along with some handy overloads to be able to set a CSS class for “first” or “last” or even generating some HTML
14Oct2011
Google Maps: Auto Zoom & Centre Your Map
One of my favourite tasks as a web developer is working with the Google Maps API. On a recent project, I was assigned the duty of developing an events component whereby a range of upcoming events were presented to the user, as well as being plotted on a Google map.
12Aug2011
Finally, a HTML5 spec for Web Developers!
If you’re a front-end web developer, chances are you’ve never read the HTML5 spec (I don’t blame you). You see, the HTML5 spec was written for browser developers (not web), so the worst part of viewing it would be the attempt to translate such gibberish the actual spec dictates into words a normal human can understand. Have no fear, the W3C’s HTML Working Group (not to be confused with the WHATWG) has published a draft of a far more readable spec named “HTML5: Edition for Web Authors”.
19Oct2010
The Importance of Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) Browser Testing
Arguably one of the most difficult challenges facing web developers today is getting a beautiful and intuitive design to look exactly the same in every currently-used web browser (yes, this also includes Internet Explorer 6 guys).
4Jun2010
Apple pushes HTML 5
After the recent launch of Apple’s iPad and the flaming they continually get for their lack of Adobe Flash support in their products, Apple has come back harder and stronger with a specially made page showcasing HTML5, CSS3 and it’s capabilities.
21May2010
A Quick Look at Video in HTML5
A Quick Look at Video in HTML5 As the current HTML5 specification is continually drafted, the support for video compatibility on modern day browsers is ever increasing with the introduction of the < video > tag.
7May2010
Let’s go .live() with jQuery
So your client has requested some wacky jQuery to jazz up their feature page, and, well, there’s already a decent amount of JavaScript that isn’t really agreeing with Internet Explorer’s rendering engine right? In comes jQuery .live() to the rescue!
22Feb2010
Designers Sanctuary vs Slicers Nightmare
They’ve done it again haven’t they? You’ve just been briefed on a new project, had a peek at the designs and it’s drop shadow-ville! Never fear, jQuery is here.
23Dec2009
Firefox 3.5, the World’s Most Popular Browser
Can you hear that? It’s the sound of victory! It’s official, Mozilla’s most recent browser “Firefox 3.5” is now the world’s most popular web browser.
3Dec2009
Do you speak the internets? :-)
Right, so you’ve received an email containing a series of letters and symbols, and you’re embarrassed to admit you don’t understand?
12Nov2009
TurnTubeList – The YouTube DJ
TurnTubeList works via YouTube’s API. It has some sharp AJAX to search YouTube videos without interrupting playback, along with some funky jQuery bells and whistles like sliders and keyboard shortcuts.
2Oct2009
Deal a Day Websites
Well it’s fairly self-explanatory; a deal a day is website is just that – a website that promotes and sells a new, greatly discounted product each day.
7Aug2009
Huh? My Website Looks Like Your Website!
As described on Wikipedia, a website template is “a tool used to separate content from presentation in web design, and for mass-production of web documents” - basically, web templates can be used by any individual or organisation to setup a website.
21Jul2009
jQuery – Website Eye Candy
In the fast-changing world of Web 2.0, a developer always joins forces with one of the many JavaScript libraries available. A couple of my favourite plug-ins include:
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