I've recently been doing more and more cutting from mocks to HTML & CSS and one particular job required me to work to a specific grid layout. In working to these grid layouts, I've created a couple of tools to make generating and working with the grids a little easier.

As jQuery for Designers continued to grow in interest, so did the video downloads. The main problem my server faced was that when a large influx of traffic came in all at once, say if Smashing Magazine publishes a post covering a couple of tutorials, all the apache processes would be busy serving up 30Mb video [...]

I was asked to share my knowledge at SkillSwap which was great evening (it's certainly encouraged me out of my little box and head to future events) (thanks also to John). The slides were updated for SkillSwap, and then also for the ThoughtWorks talk I gave, and in addition, I've recorded screencasts for each of [...]

In the pursuit of an idea I had recently, one tiny feature of the web site would be to detect whether the user had X font installed. I've looked at flash solutions, since a SWF had access to enumerate the fonts, but ultimately if it could be done without flash, it would/should be faster and smarter. So [...]

I've been beavering away at the API behind the scenes for a little while, and if you follow me on Twitter you've probably already seen the API browser has already been upgraded. The key change I've made is to de-couple the API search engine from the front end. What this has resulted in, is a [...]