Wednesday 23rd of April 2014
We run a lot of projects at work and increasingly over the last few years we've been using LESS to create the CSS on them. While this is great for us front end developers, it has thrown up a surprising problem for those who are responsible for actioning pull requests through git. Here's some thoughts on a very specific problem.
Read moreTuesday 15th of April 2014
Who likes the new Google maps? I'm not sure. It seems a bit slower than the old one. It's probably doing more stuff, but from a user perspective I can't see anything particularly worth the trade-off. And what happened to 'search nearby'? Way to take out the most useful feature, Google.
But enough of that. Who wants to play spot the thing from a movie on street view?
Read moreTuesday 8th of April 2014
Dear designer of CD album cases,
While I can understand that the classic plastic jewel case for a CD presents some creative limitations I need to inform you that the alternatives you have produced, notwithstanding the innovate ideas that spawned their design, should be discontinued immediately. We all understand that your client is an offbeat, self-styled indie group who feel that wrapping their CD in anything short of a masterpiece of origami in beautifully decorated cardboard would be a betrayal of their whole ethos, but they're wrong, you're wrong, and you need to go back to the classic case.
Read moreSaturday 29th of March 2014
After slowness, endless patching and sudden serious vulnerabilities, I've made a decision - I'm going to try giving up Flash.
Read moreFriday 21st of March 2014
Over the last year the workload at my office has been so high that we've on occasion needed freelancers to help out with front end work. Having been involved at various stages with this kind of situation I've seen what can work and what doesn't. Here then are my thoughts on writing front end for a backend system you'll never see.
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