Blog - page 24

2013-01-03T00:00:00.000Z 3rd January 2013

Setting up a local development server

12 Devs of Christmas

There are plenty of articles on the web about how to become a web designer, how to build sites and how to sell them. What this article opens up, is ...

2012-11-11T00:00:00.000Z 11th November 2012

Sass - Hidden Gems

I've recently been getting into pre-processors for CSS and I have been using LESS for sometime - getting to grips with the nesting and variables while keeping a library of my own mixins.

2012-08-29T00:00:00.000Z 29th August 2012

Start Your Own Event

.net magazine

This article first appeared in issue 230 of .net magazine – the world's best-selling magazine for web designers and developers. Conferences are great. You get to meet fantastic people, you learn ...

2012-07-19T00:00:00.000Z 19th July 2012

I hate road cycling

Road cycling. Its boring. Its rubbish. Most road cyclists just go round in circles. Up to the top of a hill, turn round and back again - wash, rinse, repeat.

2012-07-11T00:00:00.000Z 11th July 2012

Future of Web Design - May 2012 - Day 1

In the middle of May, I attended my first big web conference – the Future of Web Design. I’ve been to a few small-scale conferences before, but never one but never one of the big boys

2012-06-30T00:00:00.000Z 30th June 2012

ratio - a mikestreety app

An app for working out ratios

2012-06-23T00:00:00.000Z 23rd June 2012

Domains - Pitfalls and Propagation

Many a times I have dealt with various companies and agencies about pointing different domains at our servers - what shocked me is the basic level of understanding, most of the time, is 0. I thought I would dump my brain about domains and whatnot, because then even if everyone has a basic understanding, life will be good.

2012-05-18T00:00:00.000Z 18th May 2012

#PHPFED - Variables

Before you continue - make sure you understand the story. The next thing is that php lines always need to end with a semi-colon (;). This tells php that the line ...

2012-05-16T00:00:00.000Z 16th May 2012

I bloody love twitter

I bloody love twitter. It's great. Now, I'm not some twitter addict or nerd, well I am, but that's by the by.

2012-05-10T00:00:00.000Z 10th May 2012

#PHPFED - Includes

When developing static sites (i.e. sites without any sort of CMS - be it Wordpress, Drupal etc.) the PHP I find the most valuable is the include.