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CHRGD [2] 11 Aug 2013 | 03:31 pm
A few days ago, I spotted an article about the Battery Status API on MDN, I didn’t have time to read it but thought I’d Pocket it for later. It got me thinking though… what sort of things can you do ...
Providing Value 14 Jul 2013 | 12:36 am
My wife and I had a discussion last night as we’re currently playing with our finances (riveting Friday night conversation, I can assure you!). We have a dishwasher in our kitchen, and for me, it’s a ...
Mixdown 22 Jun 2013 | 04:51 pm
Scratching an itch is a satisfying past-time. When it comes to software and my general life-style, a lot of itches can be scratched using code. I’ve always been overly envious of those who could code....
Ghost 1 May 2013 | 01:09 pm
I’ve been following John O’Nolan on twitter for a few years now. I admire him and the work he does. He has been an active developer, contributor and member of the core WordPress team in the past and h...
Fitting in All The Things [1] 17 Apr 2013 | 02:27 pm
Last Thursday saw the inaugural 12 Devs event hosted by my good friend Adam Onishi and myself. It was a fantastic free event held at the Mozilla offices here in London (@MozLDN). We had 5 speakers, cr...
The Save Icon [2] 9 Apr 2013 | 02:30 pm
Ahh, the ‘Save’ symbol, that trusty icon of a 3.5” floppy disk that sits quietly in our apps waiting to document & archive our work. It’s been there for as long as I remember using computers… in fact,...
The REM unit 19 Mar 2013 | 02:09 pm
I’ve got a long list of tools and techniques I want to look at. rem’s have been on there for a fair while but I’ve been using em’s for font sizing, margin and padding for a few years now so I’ve never...
Media Queries, Level 4 Spec [2] 6 Mar 2013 | 04:04 pm
Stu Cox recently wrote a great post talking about the next level of Media Queries, Level 4. The W3C started work on this spec last year but browser support is non-existent. One of the new ‘features’ ...
An Introduction to Sass [1] 26 Feb 2013 | 02:07 pm
18 months ago, I began looking into CSS pre-processors. There were several available but the two big hitters were LESS and Sass. LESS relied on JavaScript to convert its files to CSS while Sass utilis...
Getting Involved in Croydon 18 Feb 2013 | 01:39 pm
Back in September 2012, I was contacted by a local guy in Croydon called Jonny Rose. He wanted to tell me about a vision he had, a vision that Croydon could build it’s own digital eco-system, a Tech C...
