Recently, I’ve had the chance to talk with other speakers about what they find easy, hard and what they could offer to help me. The tips they’ve given me are just great! One of those tips was doing some sort of video blog. So, yesterday, I purchased a suction cup cradle thing for the car, in hops that I’ll do video blogs in there as I drive along (I drive… Continue reading

I’ll be honest. The reason I got into web development in the first place was not to make a difference or contribute to the web, but because it was something I could kind of do and it paid fairly well compared to other job options I had. I had grand ideas, but deep down I knew I was thinking bollocks and saw myself trapped in an agency for the rest… Continue reading

I spend a good portion of my time wondering what would happen if I did something, either in terms of work or personal things. I can anguish over a simple question for hours, days, weeks and even months. I know I’m not alone. I decided late last year I wanted to go freelance, just after my .net award actually. I knew I had to do the difficult thing and tell my… Continue reading

People like to talk about WordPress being bad, the wrong choice and it not being a CMS. I’m going to say, in defence,m that for me, it’s the right choice, every time, and why. This is obviously subjective, but it’s relative to me. So here goes. My career began because of Chris Coyier‘s early WordPress series of three videos. They helped me understand HTML, CSS, PHP and WordPress much more than… Continue reading

Today, I was doing some interesting z-index stuff for a new feature on the Devstars site. I had it working to spec, but I thought a nice touch would be bring the currently hovered item to the top of the thumbnail stack, with without breaking the above other elements which needed to be above it. See the gif for what I mean. Now, a quick caveat: This may not be the… Continue reading

Something I’ve said for a long time is; Life it what you make it. For me, that has never been truer than it is now. The last several months have been life changing for me. Specifics of what happened don’t matter, that’s not the point, but each and every one of these seemingly little events has shaped my life in profound ways. An example would be getting nominated for the .net… Continue reading