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I’m Changing My Job
For the last 3.5 years I’ve been working as a web developer over at ZillaMedia. In my time there I have worked on some awesome projects including building Snippi, working on PremiumPixels and building WordPress themes for ThemeZilla. However by far the biggest and most interesting project that I’ve worked...
15 April 2015 · More →
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Structuring Sass for Web Apps & Larger Projects
I’ve been using Sass (specifically Scss) as my preprocesser of choice for some time now and it’s invaluable for taming your CSS when building larger projects (such as web apps). On a smaller project you can get away with maybe a couple of .scss files, however once your codebase grows...
2 April 2015 · More →
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2014 Year in Review
It’s that time of year again to look back, take stock and reflect on what a year has brought. At the end of last year I resolved to be working smarter, not harder. While I may have achieved this goal to a certain extent there have been certain unforseen situations...
31 December 2014 · More →
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PHP concepts to learn before diving into Laravel 5
Laravel is an awesome framework for PHP and I have been using the upcoming version 5 (currently in alpha) for some time now. Being a big, powerful framework Laravel has always suffered from a steep learning curve, and the update from 4 to 5 is no different. So to help...
3 December 2014 · More →
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Git is Way Too Complex
Recently I have migrated over from Subversion to Git as my VCS of choice. While Git has many great features and is much faster than SVN I still think its way too complicated for the average user. Case in point, I use SourceTree for most of my git development and,...
28 September 2014 · More →
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Fixing NPM EACCES Error on OS X
So if you’ve installed Node using root permissions you might get an npm ERR! Error: EACCES when trying to install npm packages. This means you need to use sudo every time you want to install a package (not ideal). Apparently this is the case when you use the .pkg installer...
23 September 2014 · More →
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On Scottish Independence
I’ve been wanting to get my thoughts on Scottish Independence down in a coherent fashion for a while now, so here goes. First let me say I’m all for devolution. Scotland having as much power as possible to make it’s own decisions is a good thing, and while I understand...
11 September 2014 · More →
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The Ideal Image Slider
While a lot people seem to applaud the death of the image slider these days, I still see them used all over the place and I still have to occasionally implement them myself. In short I don’t think they are going away any time soon. However it has become increasingly...
27 August 2014 · More →
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How Raneto got to the front page of Hacker News for $0
On Monday morning around 11am I released Raneto my new project for creating Markdown powered Knowledgebases in Nodejs. After I came back from lunch (around 2pm) I was stunned to see I was at spot no. 6 on the front page of Hacker News and remained there for the rest...
4 June 2014 · More →
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How to Decrypt an Encrypted SSL Key
A couple of times recently I’ve ran into the issue where I have receieved an encrypted SSL key from my registrar, but my hosting software won’t allow me to use an encrypted SSL key. The good reason for this is that if the key is encrypted, you’d have to enter...
25 March 2014 · More →