Monday, February 6th, 2012
I love to mess about with side projects, although I have a very bad habit which I think may be common amongst us in that I have so little free time to spend on the projects that it takes me so long to design and develop them, that I usually end up abandoning them at [...]
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Getting the CakePHP OAuth Consumer to work in CakePHP 2.0.5
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An exploration into low impact development within a CMS, building lightweight functionality to improve how we use imagery within web pages that can be replaced as and when the platform evolves.
read moreWednesday, June 8th, 2011
The video from the presentation I delivered at the CISG and Online Information conferences covering the University of Leeds’ Course Finder, how and why it was developed, and ultimately, what I think we should be doing to make it truly a ‘killer’ service.
read moreWednesday, January 5th, 2011
You might work on small projects or large scale developments, you might be the only person involved or you might work with many others, regardless of your situation, having a structured development process is essential.
I work for the University of Leeds as a generalist designer/developer, a recent project of mine has been upgrading our institutional [...]
Monday, January 25th, 2010
If you’ve ever worked with PHP you’ll be more than familiar with the use of if/elseif/else conditional statements, these statements often become large and unweildy, especially when HTML is mixed in with PHP, causing a problems with code readability. There are a couple of alternate ways to write these statements which can improve your code.
if..endif [...]