Memoirs of a Coder #9

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Mr Michael Rose drew my avatar using the iPad app, Paper. It’s awesome! Take a look. I spoke at my first conference in a year. I spoke about stuff we can do today in responsive web design. It was a blast. Here’s my slides, I also wrote about it. I also spoke at a great monthly meetup in London called Geeky. I ranted for 2 minutes, not as planned, it should’ve been 10 minutes. I got some laughs though, for the right reason. As ever, Gavin Elliot put on a great conference in… Continue reading

Useful WordPress Snippets #1

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The little-known CMS & blogging platform, WordPress, has paid my bills for 4 years now. It’s the only open-source CMS I’ve ever used. In those 4 years, the amount of snippets I have in Kodery for it is just huge. Here, I want to share some cool ones that will probably help on a vast majority of sites with a completely bespoke theme. ‘Post’ to ‘Article’ in the back-end Most of the blog-type themes I’ve built have been designed to replace an existing (usually bespoke) archaic CMS, where the editors refered to… Continue reading

Building RWD

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This is the useful bits of info I shared in a talk I did at The Digital Pond in London last night. A talk, as a blog post. I’ll re-visit this at some point and make it more of a blog post than transcribed talk. HTML5 Forms There’s a load of new form elements that came in HTML5. Here’s most of them. Each has a slightly different way of entering data and looks slightly different in the browser. file text url checkbox hidden tel email range number search date password radio color time <input type=”email” /> Mobile devices make good use of these, changing the keyboard layout to… Continue reading