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How to do web testing: be better than a robot
14 August, 2013Tags
Automated testing is definitely a good thing. Nearly all development teams should do more of it. But it’s still important for humans to test…
Useful git snippets
05 April, 2013Tags
Not so much a blog post as a notebook for useful git commands… Export changes from a range of revisions Keep your fork in sync with the main…
Blues faces - what's wrong with a little sincerity?
05 April, 2013Tags
I went to a blues gig recently, and I’m not sure why, but the whole thing just felt wrong. The thing about white men playing the blues has…
Border-box mostly FTW
29 January, 2013Tags
I’ve been a fan of box-sizing: border-box ever since reading Paul Irish’s article * { box-sizing: border-box } FTW I use it on most projects…
Improving user acceptance testing sessions
12 July, 2012Tags
I’ve been involved in quite a few UAT sessions with clients, and they can be very frustrating for a developer. You’ve spent weeks working on…
Working in Woking - it's grim down south
29 March, 2012A while ago, I had the misfortune to be sent to work in Woking. I’d previously spent some time there on a theatre tour, and I’d hated it…
Here are a few of my favourite things (Drush commands)
17 February, 2012Tags
In case you didn’t already know, Drush is great. It can massively speed up the Drupal development process. Here are some of the commands I…
Demonstrating designs to clients using PHP's file and image functions
23 January, 2012Tags
Here’s something I picked up from the designers at Catch Digital. When showing site mockups to a client, they would create a directory of…
NetBeans code templates
16 January, 2012Tags
Something I’ve only just discovered the usefulness of is code templates in Netbeans. I always used to have autocomplete set up in Outlook…
The power of paper
26 December, 2011Tags
I’m a sucker for articles on sites like Lifehacker about online productivity tools. I’ve tried loads of apps and online to-do lists, but I…