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May 20

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The bad week

So a few weeks ago if you follow me on Twitter you would have seen me bitching about having a bad week; to be fair I bitch on Twitter about bad days/weeks/months rather more than I would like but mainly because I’m either extremely frustrated or angry with my personal work performance. Alas this particular bad week really had nothing to do with work.

tl;dr

  • my mum is potentially very ill – waiting on dr’s full diagnosis,
  • I am a diabetic – this will mean less booze and delicious food

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Apr 21

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Easy Open Source workflow

So you’ve found an open source project to contribute to but you don’t really know where to start? It can all look pretty daunting but the good news is that it’s just a process of pretty easily repeatable steps; and the idea of this webmaker-bitesize article is to show you those and explain why they’re required. Read more

Mar 9

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Writing a good bug

It’s a bit of a cliche (as google image search show us) but one of the best ways to get contributing to an Open Source (OS) project is to file a bug. It can occasionally seem a pretty silly and frustrating thing but as well as allowing you to tell people that something is broken or a new thing you would like the project to do it also introduces yourself to the existing community, project managers and developers. Filing a bug can seem a little daunting, especially if the developers are people you don’t know but if you follow some basic steps then you’ll be in a good place. Read more

Mar 3

Responsive design – have we come full circle?

Responsive Day Out, or #responsiveconf (or #beefcheeks) was a one day conference held down in Brighton and organised by Jeremy Keith. The talks were fast and furious (20 minutes each) and followed by a seated discussion on sofa’s with Jeremy fielding questions from the audience. It was cheap at cheerful (tickets being great value at £50) with a good after-party that didn’t turn into carnage allowed many extended discussions. The excitement around the subject was, as I’m very old and can remember this kind of stuff rather similar to the early @media’s revolving around web standards, and on a week were the Web Standards Project shut itself down I was left wondering; have our best practises actually changed? Read more

Feb 10

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Images – why the right format matters

Websites in the past few years have started to suffer from bloatedness and over-indulgance. People have predicted that an average site may hit 2mb by the end of 2013 which is fairly hefty, especially for people on a slow network or those with a fixed amount of data they can use each month. There are lots of code refactoring processes that can be done to improve things but you don’t need to be a coder to make your site faster – just use the correct image for the subject matter it contains and you can make some amazing size savings. Read more

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