Revisiting old work doesn't have to hurt
25 May 2017Spend too much time looking backwards and you’re likely to walk into a tree.
MoreDefining custom tree root nodes in Umbraco
01 February 2017If you’ve been fiddling with Umbraco for a little while, you may well have stuck a finger into the custom tree or section pie.
MoreCustomising URLs in Umbraco
14 September 2016By default, Umbraco builds logical URLs based on the backoffice content structure - usually this works fine, but there are cases when it’s useful to be a bit clever.
MoreCustomising Umbraco without touching core files
04 July 2016One of Umbraco’s greatest strengths is that it is easily customisable and extensible.
MoreFun with gradients and border radius
25 May 2016I like to think I have a pretty solid grasp on the nuances of CSS - I spend a good chunk of my time writing, reviewing, refactoring and debugging it.
MorePassion alone won't get you a start in a new industry
14 May 2016What happens when you’ve made the decision to pursue a new career path but realise that the change would require a range of new skills which at present, you simply don’t have in your tool belt?
MorePerfecting a loosely coupled integration
22 April 2016Just because we’re pushing data into a third-party system, doesn’t mean our user should be force to interact with said system.
MoreAccessing Angular controller functions from outside the controller
31 March 2016TIL: you don’t need to be inside an Angular controller to make Angular magic happen.
MoreWatching variables while using AngularJs' ControllerAs syntax
14 March 2016I’ve jumped on the ControllerAs syntax party bus, and find myself writing clearer, more modular code. Which is fantastic.
Parsing natural(ish) language with Javascript
03 March 2016I’m working on a project to convert static html pages into dynamic, interactive study planners for our students.
MoreMillennials quick to look elsewhere
13 February 2016Australian businesses could see large swathes of their workforce heading for the door, unless they improve their retention strategies for millennial workers.
MoreCustom GitHub Pages domains with Cloudflare
09 February 2016GitHub is a great tool. Cloudflare is also a great tool. Combine the two you get domain name awesomeness.
MoreA job interview will not kill you
06 February 2016A job interview can feel a lot like a police interrogation, (hopefully) minus the bright lights, handcuffs and lawyers.
MoreFunctions in AngularJs' orderBy filter
21 January 2016AngularJs’ orderBy filter, not surprisingly, is really good at setting an array’s order.
MoreBridging the gender pay gap
08 January 2016We all know the gender pay gap is a real thing.
MoreWant a payrise? Ask for it
19 December 2015How much are you really worth?
MoreRemote debugging with Chrome and Android
02 November 2015Chrome’s DevTools tray has a heap of useful features, including device emulation, but sometimes a physical device is a heap more useful.
MoreUBI - it's not an STD, it's guaranteed income
21 October 2015In the 2014-2015 financial year, the Australian Government spent more than $140 billion on welfare. In the same period, the entire Federal Budget consisted of a touch more than $450 billion in expenditure.
MoreQuick and easy photo galleries with Google Drive
09 October 2015While there are thousands of image gallery plugins floating around, sometimes it’s just as easy to re-invent the wheel.
MoreHave you missed your professional boat?
26 September 2015If you haven’t hit your professional highs by the time you’re 27, you’ve missed the boat.
MoreCompiling async content (or hey, my directive isn't working)
22 July 2015The front-end of this site is was previously an AngularJs app, for no other reason than I wanted to build an AngularJs app.
Generating color gradiations using SCSS
18 July 2015Let’s use some CSS pre-processing goodness to generate a colour palette.
MoreWhen hidden overflows insist on overflowing
01 July 2015Hiding container overflow is a pretty simple mission - pick the axis and give it a value.
MoreTread carefully, Chrome might start deleting from your filesystem
30 June 2015Google’s Chrome browser is a great piece of kit, when it’s not deleting entire folders of work from my file system.
MoreIndexing Archetype content in Umbraco
24 June 2015Imulus’ Archetype package is great, but what’s the point if your users can’t search the content?
MoreIndexing Archetype content in Umbraco - Pt II
24 June 2015While a custom indexer will absolutely get the job done, it’s overkill.
MoreHow good are SASS loops?
19 May 2015How good? Really good. And they’re even better when you use them to generate content.
MorePretty URLs in AngularJs apps
09 May 2015If you’ve spent any time in AngularJs-land, you’ll be familiar with finding the hash character in your URLs.
MoreSuppressing dirty checking in Umbraco dashboard inputs
07 May 2015I’ve been playing with a new Umbraco dashboard package - more on that later - and had run into an issue where Umbraco’s inbuilt Angular goodness was dirty-checking inputs in my dashboard.
MoreUsing PrismJs syntax highlighting with AngularJs
02 May 2015Code samples without syntax highlighting is like Mexican food without sour cream.
MoreIE11, Windows 8 and fixed background images
19 April 2015While Internet Explorer 11 is vast improvement on its ancestors, it’s not without oddities of its own.
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