Windows Terminal - Themes and Gifs!
Microsoft has made great strides over the last few years to improve the developer tool chain; Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code (their Mac variants!), WSL an...
Posts by Year
2019
Git Next - Using Git Aliases for Presentations
I recently presented at Sugcon EU 2019 (more on that in a soon to be written blog post). I’ve previously presented or taken part in presenting workshops and...
2018
Write-Information With Colours
When learning PowerShell, one of the first things you learn is that the command Write-Host is super useful. It lets you write messages to the console and al...
Sitecore Install Framework - SUG DK
A few weeks back, I was in Copenhagen and was able to talk about the Sitecore Install Framework (SIF) at the Danish Sitecore UserGroup.
2014
Westwood-Scroll
Sometimes the random ideas are just fun to make.When was the last time Westwood was “up in your building looking real big…?“. Now you can have him in ever...
2013
PS-Pushover – Send Pushover messages from Powershell
I’ve been playing around with IFTTT.com recently. Both in an effort to get more organised and as an excuse to make the most out of my awesome new Pebble wat...
PowerShell for Sitecore Item Web API
My colleague Adam Simmonds did a demo of the Sitecore Item Web API at work based on the code provided by Kern Herskind from a recent Sitecore User Group. It...
Gaming For 2013
I wrote early last year about the pile of games I had to work through – having bought a bunch in the January sales. I managed to play a some, a few I never ...
2012
What to do with old domains?
So, it seems I suffer from one of two problems.<ol><li>I am incapable of seeing a personal project through to the end </li><li>I str...
Multipart Form Posting in Android
I’m chugging away making a native Android app for the rather splendid @stringfellow. It’s been quite the eye-opener in terms of Android fragmentation, the j...
Chrome Dev Tools: CSS Auto-Complete
The Chrome Dev tools provide a lot of functionality to you as a developer when making changes to scripts, CSS, HTML or testing out the performance of a page....
PostLib
I played around with Posterous some time ago (the old version of this blog used to be there).Twitter recently acquired Posterous and there has been some talk...
New Build
It looks like I may be getting a new work machine. I say looks as it may end up being a month before anything happens.Anyway, having a clean environment to...
Books and Personal Development for 2012
During the last six months of 2011 I began picking up and reading more tech books then I think I had in the previous 3 years. <div></div><div&...
Gaming For The New Year
I’ll admit, I’m a cheap gamer.It’s not often I’ll buy things brand spanking new. While I fully appreciate the time, effort and dedication it takes for a tea...
2011
Updated .gitignore But Files Are Still Tracked?
Git has a simple feature to ignore files and folders. Create a .gitignore file and using basic glob syntax, you can tell Git what files you do not want trac...
Protocol-Relative URLs
One of the things I love about programming and development in general is that, no matter how well you think you know something, there’s always something that...
A Simple LocalStorage Model
I’ve been playing around with Google Chrome extensions again (you should too, they are really simple).Chrome extensions at their most basic level consist of ...
GiveCampUK - Excited Doesn’t Cover It
GiveCamp is coming to the UK and I’m incredibly nervously excited to be taking part!I’ll be heading up a team of five developers from work, developing on a p...
A successful Git branching model » nvie.com
A really quite excellent blog post by Vincent Driessen which provides a clear process and direction for users of any Distributed Version Control System (DVC...
txt2re: Regular Expression Generator
[Link]A pretty awesome page to help when creating regular expressions. Type in the string you want to match, then use the selectors to create a snippet of c...
Building Mobile Javascript Webapps With BackboneJS & jQuery: Part 1
<div>via addyosmani.com</div>Addy Osmani talks through a sample photo gallery built with Backbone.js and the JQuery Mobile framework.He discusse...
Quick And Simple NodeJS Setup
Getting up and running with Node is pretty simple. Here’s a quick script (with the largest part of help from here) to move things along that little bit quic...
Chosen
Chosen is a JavaScript plugin that makes long, unwieldy select boxes much more user-friendly. It is currently available in both jQuery and Prototype flavors ...
CDN JS - The Missing CDN
What is it? Everyone loves the Google CDN right? Even Microsoft runs their own CDN. The problem is, they only host the most popular libraries. We host the...
TameJS
Note Tame is not an attempt to dumb down async programming. It's just a cleaner way to write it. Further, your programs will likely have lower latency; ...
Essential Javascript Design Patterns For Beginners
In this book, we will take a look at a number of popular JavaScript design patterns and explore why certain patterns may be more suitable for your projects t...
DotNetZip Library
DotNetZip is an easy-to-use, FAST, FREE class library and toolset for manipulating zip files or folders. Zip and Unzip is easy: with DotNetZip, .NET applica...
New NodeJS Logo - A Little Fugly?
To echo Node’s evolutionary nature, we have refreshed the identity to help mark an exciting time for developers, businesses and users who benefit ...
Extension API Updates in Chrome 13
...you can now make cross-origin XMLHttpRequest calls with the privileges of the extension directly from your content script. You will no longer need to rel...
Javascript Array Filtering
A simple thing, but it's the simple things that I often forget. Javascript 1.6 introduced Array.prototype.filter which can be used as follows. The...
YUI Theater — Ryan Dahl: “Introduction to NodeJS”
</embed> NodeJS is going from strength to strength in both recognition and adoption. And rightfully so.An event driven, dynamic, robust server ...
Hello? Hello? Is This Thing On?
So it’s that time again.That time when I think I should sort myself out. Write those blogs posts. Finish that code snippet. Make a note of that interestin...