It's now been more than 18 months since I wrote about taking the leap from being an employee to working full time on my startup,...

I've finally given up on Wordpress, and moved this blog over to Jekyll, the "blog aware static site generator". My blog is now 100% static...

After over 10 years of Linux I recently switched to OSX on a MacBook Air. I can't say enough good things about the Air hardware,...

Turntable.fm has taken off in a big way. Launching in May, over 140,000 users signed up in the first month. Celebrities regularly hang out there,...

Life as a web developer can be hard when things start going wrong. The problem could be in any number of places. Is there a...

Almost exactly a year ago I posted a comment to Hacker News about organizing a London meetup. Soon after that I met up with Dimitri,...

Node.io is a relatively new screen scraping framework that allows you to easily scrape data from websites using Javascript, a language that I think is...

I'm a fan of sites like Smashing Magazine and Six Revisions. They regularly pump out high quality informative articles about all aspects of web development...

There's been some interesting discussion on Hacker News today about what sort of people attended the Hacker News London event. Comments included complaints that many...

Almost exactly a year ago I set myself a challenge: To learn 12 new programming languages in 12 months. Obviously I wouldn't be able to...