I’m a Senior Developer at Onos, and creator of Simply Written and ReferenceIt. I dislike keeping useful knowledge a secret, and make a point of trying to share as much as possible. What use is knowledge, after all, if people can’t benefit from it?
To that end I have created this journal where I can share my thoughts on design and development. My journal will contain tutorials, thoughts, and inspirations about the processes I use in my work. By sharing my work and my thought processes, I hope that others can learn from what I've done and improve upon it.
With Apple having made OS X 10.11’s first Developer Preview available to developers, and my addiction to using new and shiny things, I’ve just finished…
Read article: Setting Up Vagrant in OS X 10.11 El CapitanA small Gulp plugin for sending HTML emails to real inboxes while you build them.
Read article: gulp-mailgunI can't remember when I first heard the phrase “Manners Maketh the Man”, but it has always stuck with me. Being polite to one another is an all too uncommon…
Read article: Manners Maketh the Man
The last few days have been quite the journey for me. It was my first time in Newcastle, my first time attending any conference aside from Build, and the…
Read article: Industry Conference 2013Symbolset has a selection of, simply put, awesome icon fonts that make life easier when it comes to using icons on the web. Rather than creating static images…
Read article: Symbolset Sass FunctionsI've been tinkering with my site over the last few days, and it's resulted in a few under the hood improvements that I thought I'd share. None of it is…
Read article: Simple CSS GoodnessPronto is a rather awesome little jQuery plugin I’ve just implemented in my site. In the words of the plugin’s author, Ben Plum:
Using a “partial page load” technique, Pronto reduces the over all server load and font-end render time by only updating pieces of a page instead of the entire document.
The initial setup can be a bit fiddly, but I’ve found it to be pretty smooth sailing once it’s all set up. Well worth checking out.
This week marks another step forward for me. I've received my last mark for my Masters, it has been confirmed that I've passed. Excellent, but where to next?…
Read article: Presto ChangoWhen it comes to code for projects that I'm working on, nothing annoys me more than code bloat. All too often people will grab a plugin to complete a single…
Read article: jQuery Show of Slides Plugin
In a recent article I talked about shipping curly quotes in Get Invited, and that I'd then added it to my portfolio. I wanted to take a little time to talk…
Read article: Simple Smart Quotes