Blog - page 24

2013-02-15T00:00:00.000Z 15th February 2013

Starting Afresh, Starting Anew

So like my good friends Anthony and Kris, I've realised how little i've blogged over the last year. Looking at my archive the last 6 months of 2012 played host to just 1 ...

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.