I'm a front-end developer (and some time Creative Director) who blogs about design, development and the web. I live in London and I'm a gigantic nerd.

Front End/UI

Book: jQuery Fundmentals

Book: jQuery Fundmentals

That was until recently when I discovered this excellent, comprehensive, lucidly written and above all free and ‘open-source’ eBook by Rebecca Murphy (@rmurphey) titled jQuery Fundamentals.
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Love LESS but you’re put off by Ruby?

Love LESS but you’re put off by Ruby?

I’ve fiddled around with the original LESS a few times and loved the convenience of variables and nested rules in CSS, but I’ve always been reluctant to put it into production because of the fact that it’s based in Ruby. Not that I have anything against Ruby as a language, far from it in fact, but simply the fact that it isn’t as all pervasive as PHP which makes maintenance and portability a bit more of a pain that it should be. But now there’s an answer.

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Amazon S3 batch editing metadata

Amazon S3 batch editing metadata

I’ve recently had cause to start using S3 on a personal project, and while for the most part I couldn’t be happier, there is one thing that is irritated more than I thought it would. Namely, you can’t batch edit meta-data for files from within the native AWS console.
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