Confessions of a Professional Developer

Recently I've been working on my new project Get JSON - I've had some brilliant responses from users on both Twitter and CodePen alike. One of my pens even got picked for the front page - something which I did not expect but am indeed truly grateful for. Get JSON allows you to create ad-hoc data structures in JSON format and then pull them into either client or server side code for...

Upload and Share ANY File! On the odd occasion I need to share something with the world and it doesn't fit into the predefined file types of the major sharing sites. In order to overcome this problem I created http://tweet-file.com . Tweet File lets you log in with your twitter account and upload a set of files (any type of files you like as long as they meet the fairly obvious terms...

To save me looking this up again the modules for Angular JS are on google cdn and the full list can be found here For general purposes though, the main ones to use are as follows (update version number where necessary): <script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.2.16/angular.min.js"></script> <script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.2.16/angular-animate.min.js"></script> <script...

This is just a quick tip, some may do this already but its something I've only just started doing recently and whilst I couldn't say for sure whether it's a GREAT tactic or not it's nevertheless better than a simple "Thank you" tweet. When you get a new follower - especially if they're in Digital Marketing (Be it a freelancer, an agency, developer or designer) if they're on twitter...

Introduction and Breakdown Firstly let me start by saying that Single Page Applications are in their infancy. The technologies used to create then have been around for a while but with the advent of HTML and the coming of age of some core libraries they now seems to be going mainstream. By this I mean that your average developer should now have enough of the heavy lifting done that...

For the majority of my career I've been involved with the Windows stack of development products Visual Studio, SQL Server and so on. However From time to time I've had cause to get my hands dirty with some PHP coding both commercially and in a freelance basis. Its been quite some time since I've used PHP but the other day a private client requested that I use it to deliver a website...

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