Category Archives: Web Apps

New Adventures 2012 – Self Help for Web Designers

Posted on 23/1/2012 by Ian

Last week, like many others working on the web, I took the trip to Nottingham for New Adventures 2012. I’d seen the wonderful praise dished out for it last year and felt like I wanted to see what it was … Continue reading →

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Pagination in CouchDB Apps

Posted on 2/11/2011 by Ian

I’ve been working on some fun little node.js / couchdb projects of late. Given the fact I don’t use either as part of my work, I’ve spent some downtime experimenting and slowly iterating my approaches as I learn best practice. … Continue reading →

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A Survey of Hype in Web Development Podcasts

Posted on 31/3/2011 by Ian

I listen to quite a few web dev podcasts. Something that irks me about a lot of them, is how much they tend to hype their own shows, products or the like. Sure, they’re allowed to, it is their own … Continue reading →

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How not to: Do A Hack Day

Posted on 24/7/2010 by Ian

It’s been well over a month since I attended science hack day and I’d thought I’d put out some notes on my time there. Rather than do a run down of the event, for which I’m sure there’s far more … Continue reading →

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Mixbooth

Posted on 21/3/2010 by Ian

Mixbooth is a dj mix hosting service I created several years ago. At the time there wasn’t a lot around in terms of options for allowing anyone to share them. You either had to exchange it upon a site filled … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Code Igniter for Rapid PHP Application Development

Posted on 31/1/2008 by Ian

In this book, author David Upton walks you through use of the Code Igniter framework, which is essentially PHP’s answer to Ruby on Rails. I’ve been a avid user of Code Igniter since I discovered it last year, which is … Continue reading →

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First Cardiff Geek Meetup

Posted on 20/9/2007 by Ian

The Cardiff geeks will be having its first ever face to face on Wednesday 17th October from 7pm at Cafe Floyd, just opposite the castle. Props to Dan Zambonini for organising the venue. This is an informal, introduction between us … Continue reading →

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FOWA Roadtrip Cardiff

Posted on 11/9/2007 by Ian

Yes, yes I know I already posted about the FOWA Roadtrip in Bristol, but I live in Cardiff and have friends and colleagues in Bristol too. I promise I didn’t just head there for free drinks once again. This time … Continue reading →

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Which would you rather introduce yourself with?

Posted on 11/9/2007 by Ian

Last night I attended the FOWA Roadtrip in Cardiff, which was great. Unfortunately my “business” cards were a little lacking, due to me making a rather late order from moo and having to put something together by hand for the … Continue reading →

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Cardiff Geeks

Posted on 7/9/2007 by Ian

I’ve long wondered why there doesn’t seem to be much happening in terms of community of the web professionals in wales. There is a vibrant collection of people sporting different skill sets in the area, yet as I can see … Continue reading →

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