When in doubt, use more JavaScript
Oh, gawd, why Over the last couple of weeks i’ve been playing with some new technology, not to any depth but just enough to get a feel for it. The week before last it was all Python & Django...
View ArticleJavaScript and me
Where did it all go wrong It must have been about 10 years ago when I first did some JavaScript and at the time I thought it was pretty good, I only used it on and off between then and university but...
View ArticleA day of Javascript
Urghh! Today I’ve been trying, trying really hard to apply some of that JavaScript knowledge to a simple problem, something that if I was doing it in HTML and PHP would have taken about an hour, and...
View ArticlePain and suffering with AngularJS
What a week! Over the last month or so I have been steadily learning Javascript, Bootstrap, NodeJS and AngularJS well last week added to that mix was D3JS. I must have got to the end of my tether every...
View ArticleTo IDE or not
What’s in an IDE! Over the last 15 years or so I have used a few IDE’s for programming “proper” applications in Pascal, Delphie, C/C++ or Java but since moving to the darker side of computing, the...
View ArticleBash-off – a way to relieve your self
Bash off! In our team at work we have this concept which we call a “Bash off” the idea is simple. Take something that you could do very simply in bash in several steps with manual fudging in the middle...
View ArticleCut down, deliver early and often
Deliver all the things There’s idealistic people in the world and that’s fine (thanks for reading by the way :) ), and there’s pragmatic people, I want to go through how you can provide solutions that...
View ArticleDoing it the hard way
Lets make it really complicated Over the last two weeks i’ve been playing with some open source project that has a bit of a kick starter going to fund their idea. I came across it through my boss who...
View ArticleSinatra – partial templates
Singing a different song Firstly apologies, it’s been over a month since my last blog post but unfortunately with holidays, illness and change of jobs I’ve been struggling to find any time to write...
View ArticleSecure salted passwords with ruby
Step one, Understand So I’ve been playing with Sinatra and Redis over the past few months and as part of my more professional side I am creating a blog platform for my other website and as a result I...
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