Welcome to my blog. You'll find a varied range of articles, covering anything from what I'm up to, side projects, conferences attended / spoken at, retro games and other randomness.
I recently gave my first talk at a conference. It was covering Node.js, it's package manager npm and the framework Express. The conference was "Scotch on the Rocks 2014". This post shares my experience of being a first time speaker, before going up to speak, during the talk and what happened afterwards. Be warned, it's a lengthy story...
As I've mentioned previously on my blog, I've jumped ship from using Wordpress.com to a DocPad produced static site that is hosted on GitHub using their "pages" feature. In this post I'll walk through the basic steps I took to get up and running with DocPad.
I get quite a few hits from people coming here looking at an old post about XBox avatar images. I decided to update it a little by adding a simple form that'll let you type in your gamertag to display the images and provide the URL's.
This post looks at the top 10 JavaScript projects on GitHub that were created in the last 30 days. I'm using my hubReports project for the information and then looked into each entry to learn a little more about them. I've also linked each entry to its GitHub page and hubReports statistics page. This should be the start of a series of posts that'll I'll endeavour to put out monthly.
I've moved away from WordPress.com for hosting of my blog. Due to a combination of wanting more control over my site (and not having to pay for some of that control) plus the chance to try out some of these static site generators that are available for Node.js
hubReports is a side project of mine. It's a site that gathers data from GitHub on a daily basis and then presents it via the website. I went live with the latest interation of it on November 1st 2013 and thought it was time to review how I think it did and where to go next.
Let me just state that again as you may need to double check it as much as I did. I’m speaking at Scotch on the Rocks 2014, taking place in Edinburgh on the 5th and 6th of June 2014.
I’ve finally released a version of my github report site "hubReports" that I’m happy with. This post covers how this little side project came into being, what it grew into and where it’s going.
