Month: July 2012


  • Just been on compare the market dot com and was a pleasure to fill the form in. a good example of great user experience.


  • My webapp now has a name.


  • Jesus Frankenstein by rob zombie has prob one of my fave intro riffs ever. #john5ftw


  • What doesn’t kill you, makes you stranger.


  • @chriscoyier hi. Just got my first job in Web Dev and wanted to say big thx for css-tricks and @ShopTalkShow @davatron5000 have helped lots!


  • I believe in Harvey Dent


  • My drawing webapp now creates, edits, and deletes each element of your picture, on both touch screen and mouse/keyboard. now to style it.


  • @phuunet a little birdy tells me you are responsible for me ‘gettin dizzy’ wid Dave the js binbot. Very cool… And very addictive.


  • @rem omg. I’ve just spent 5 minutes making Dave the binbot dizzy. #addictive


  • drawing webapp moving along nicely. Is getting a lot more user-friendly. Next to do, however, is multi-touch parts. Should be interesting.


  • I just bought 3 internet discussion boards. I know what you’re thinking: ‘how much did he pay forum’.


  • Time to read some more of @RealCliveBarker ‘s awesome #abarat.


  • So I finally got round to rewriting my @TheSassWay tutorial and it turns out writing and checking a blog post took longer than expected.


  • CSS… how to use sass and compass: Part Two

    Please note: for the sake of brevity, when using sass and compass, I refer to them both as compass. Following on from our previous tutorial, I would like to introduce you to @import. @import is a css feature that will allow you to import stylesheets into one another. For example: @import “normalize.css”; body{background:lightblue;width:1000px;margin:auto;} This will…


  • CSS… how to use sass and compass: Part One

    After listening to Chris Coyier speak about using Sass in CSS, I read up on it and decided to give it a bash myself. And… oh my god… it… is… frickin’ awesome! I love writing CSS anyway, so I wasn’t really thinking about anything to make it easier or quicker (which Sass does in spades).…


  • I earned the Completed Try Git badge on Code School from https://t.co/V6L1mPev https://t.co/mNBdAmHk via @codeschool


  • If I manage to build this webapp and have it working nicely, I think my Javascript skills will increase by 1000xp.


  • Okay so it turns out I may have bitten off more than I can chew. May take longer. #peskywebapps #wannaplayminecraftbutgonnabegood


  • @lastfm is frickin awesome. First three songs i’ve ever heard on it as follows: Blondie-one way or another, Paul Simon, you can call me Al


  • Took my dog to the vets for an operation to help him sit on command. Two him two weeks to heel.


  • So, i’ve just taken out my old contact lenses and im already wondering why I didn’t put my new ones in an easy to find place? Answers?


  • Finally got the google+ history API to ‘write moments’. Its the future people!


  • Gonna try using #firefox browser in both desktop and mobile, currently using #chrome and #opera on desktop and mobile respectively.


  • Love how Flickr app shows ‘hello’ in different languages, like the Web site, but it don’t stay on long enough to read it properly.


  • I can’t wait to role out my new blog. So excited about new design and is the first design i’ve done that I am not wanting to alter


  • With @TheSassWay you can use media q’s within the nesting, eg


  • Trying out using no speech marks round html attributes, ids and single class names. Feels nice people. thanks to @paul_irish for the tip!


  • #thelifeaquatic how have I never seen this film before. Frickin damn awesome!


  • Cleaning up all the CSS on my blog before possibly moving it to my other URL.


  • Blog back working. Silly me mucked it up. But lessons have been learnt.