with all the changes I undertook last year, I’m not going to surprise anyone by saying this year for me is about ticking off a few technical goals, gaining some personal development on the agile plain and generally grabbing some code by the scruff of it’s ‘neck’ and knocking it into shape. I am, as…
well who says nothing good ever comes from random google searches. I managed to stumble into the world of linux tonight, linux mit to be precise. now this will probably mean just as little to you as it did to me 32mins ago, but take it from me, it’s a very tidy place to be.…
Been learning AngularJS for the past wee while. Enjoying it tremendously but in need of a ‘real life project’ to get my teeth sunk into. Had began fleshing out the bones of a Motherwell FC supporters app, which could do all the stato stuff in a nice informative and attractive way. But the prospects of…
So by some crazy accident or piece of amazing luck, I managed to land a gig volunteering at the first ever Scotland CSS Conference, in Edinburgh’s amazing Dynamic Earth. To say it’s been informative would be an incredible understatement. But so far, my main take away from the day, is the wide variety of interests…
As a certified Umbraco developer it should ‘erk’ me a little that everyone bangs on about how great WordPress is at SEO. But it doesn’t bother me in the slightest. Umbraco allows developers to control everything that the site generates. So if SEO is your prime directive then Document Types can include all the necessary…
An interesting and informative few days at work doing some seo stuff. Found out just how well I had actually configured my latest Umbraco creation. Turns out not too shabby at all. #h5yr #I
As part of our Lean Lunch videos on a Wednesday we watched this. Everyone should watch it, because we all need to see how we could do it too. Caroline even leant me her copy of the book!
Made a beautiful discovery today whilst wrestling with a couple of Umbraco projects. Got one into TFS and going to put the other into Github, maybe.
So trying to do some relatively simple jQuery today had myself and an expert colleague scratching our heads. A pop-up activates, no problem. It has two buttons. One calls the close() function to allow users to stay on the page and fill in more info. The second button navigates to the next page. I added…
Getting this blog started off again. Instead of being irregular ramblings about poor train services and family stuff, the intention is to try and keep a record of the highs and lows of a senior front end developer / team lead. Working with a great bunch of folks and aiming for continuous improvement this should…