Dare was approached at the end of 2012 by .net magazine to contribute an article or tutorial on the subject of Facebook application development. As luck would have it Richard Gregory and I had been working on a project for Barclays which made use of the Facebook API to embed FB polls into pages on [...]
The IPA has produced a series of short video guides to careers within the advertising industry, mostly aimed at students and new graduates. They sent a couple of their film makers into Dare and interviewed a selection of people in design, technology, creative and production roles, including me, which was cool. Plus, due to the [...]
Last night was the inaugural Front End London meetup, sponsored by Made by Many and brainchild of Made by Many developer Chris Bell. I was extremely pleased to have been asked to speak at this event, and I gave a talk entitled ‘Accessibility and UI Development’, which was an evolution of the presentation I put [...]
My friend (and former colleague) Michael Dowell and I have designed and built a new site which went live last week. Introducing: The Inspiration List! The site is a curated collection of links to the places we visit for design and tech inspiration. The project was Mike’s brainchild, born out of a frustration with keeping his [...]
I’m not a massive fan of Jakob Neilsen, I’ll be honest. I’ve always felt that his views on design vs usability are unnecessarily polarised, and I find his style a little pompous and overblown. My good friend and hotshot front-end developer Larry has a mock shrine to his web heroes on the wall of his office. For [...]
I’ve created an initial working version of my CSS SCaffold tool. This tool is intended to help developers speed up the process of styling up their HTML markup by providing a set of empty CSS rules based on the markup that they have written. I was sort of surprised that the major tet editors didn’t have anything [...]
Over the christmas holidays I set myself the challenge of re-creating the classic Windows game Minesweeper, from scratch, using HTML5 and JavaScript. Click here to try it out. Working on the DK Quiz over the last year, in particular over the last few months of 2011 as we optimised the site for high volumes of [...]
I opened up a Google+ account last week. I haven’t really used it yet and I can’t really work out how I feel about it. Google have obviously tried to roll up some of the key features that make Facebook and Twitter distinct into one new application. The main difference between Facebook and Twitter, in [...]
Last week I attended my first ever hack day, run by Radioplayer – an organisation that aggregates all the UK’s radio stations in a single online location. The day was great fun and I got to meet a bunch of interesting people, many of whom came from completely different disciplines to me. I learned plenty [...]
Tutorial for City University, School of Infomatics Web Applications Development Module – 2011 Download source files here. View demo here. In this tutorial we will cover a very basic implementation of the jQuery AJAX function. All projects like this need a starting point. At the moment I am favouring the HTML5 boilerplate by [...]