Technical Leadership
During my daily commute into the office, I like to alternate between reading the newspaper and a good book. Lately I’ve been reading a book entitled “The Hard Thing about Hard Things” by Ben Horowitz. It’s a great insight into the trials and tribulations of running your own
Speaking
I am very proud to announce that as of today, I am a Google Developer Expert. If you haven't heard of Google Developer Experts before, they are a global network of experienced product strategists, designers, developers and marketing professionals that actively support developers and startups. While this doesn&
Speaking
I’m proud to say that I will be speaking at UpFront Conference in Manchester, UK on the 19th of May. UpFront Conference is in it’s first year and is billed as “a front-end conference for anyone who makes for the web”. The speaker line-up is packed
Programming
If you visit some of the most popular websites on the net today and view the source of their HTML, you might be surprised with what you find. There are often hidden gems and messages in the form of ASCII art embedded in their HTML comments. Troy Hunt recently wrote
Book
I am proud to say that I have been involved with and contributed to the latest Smashing Magazine book entitled A Career On The Web: On The Road To Success, this book provides a number of tips and best practices to guide you through the different stages of the job
Programming
I have a few open source projects that I host using Github. People often have great suggestions to improve the project, and the issues they report constantly shape and help build a better project. Unfortunately there are people who are sometimes reluctant, or unaware of how easy it is to
Fonts
I love web typography! Only a few years ago, the ability to add custom fonts to a website seemed impossible. Fortunately, due to modern browsers we are now able to create beautiful websites using web fonts. While I have to admit that I am no designer, and struggle with CSS
Testing
Browser automation is a great way to automate and test repeatable tasks in the browser. I've always been interested in browser automation and testing using tools such as Selenium. If you are looking for a way to ensure that your website runs as expected in many different browsers
HTML5
Let's face it - everyone loves a good pie chart! Using charts makes information much easier to visualize. It is easier to see a pattern in a chart, but much more difficult when looking at raw data. In fact, there are loads of different web based charting solutions available
Web Performance
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) plays a major part in the way we use the web today. SEO techniques can make your website easy for both users and search engine robots to understand. I've long been a fan of the Moz blog and their free SEO tools that can
Icons
A while ago I created a blog post with a list of free icon packs for developers that can be easily used on any website. The web is packed with loads of great icons, but they seem to be all over the place! I thought it would be handy to
Google Chrome
Here's a quick tip to use Google Chrome's Devtools to convert an image to a Data URI.