Private over-sharing will improve your life

I have shared my life and my digital content online for many years now. Usually with family and friends, but increasingly more and more my information is shared publicly (Last.fm, Instagram & Strava are just a few examples). Naturally this increased open…

JavaScript inheritance overwriting and calling class functions

If you want to inherit a class and then overwrite parts of it with new code, but still keep the original then you will need to use the call and apply functions in the correct order.

Improving JavaScript animation

jQuery might be a great tool for quickly putting together animations on your pages. However when start to do more professional complex animations the limitations become apparent.

Previously Adobe Flash was the best solution for a complex animation, and the Flash library…

Setting up Apache on a mac

If you’re wanting to do web development on your computer then you will need to set up apache web server so you can run websites locally.

For Mac

- From the Apple menu, select System Preferences

Browser Feature Detection — Plugins

Feature detection is the best way to ensure a good user experience when browsing the web. Rather than presuming an iPhone can read pdf’s (which it can). We should be detecting whether the browser is capable of displaying pdf’s natively first, then embedding the pdf…

Google Developer Make The Web Faster

While searching for articles about improving performance in websites I noticed Google have updated the ‘Make The Web Faster’ page with some interesting new statistics.

• The average web page takes up 320 KB on the wire.