Last year Julie and I cycled the London to Brighton bike ride, a first for me. I enjoyed it so much that Julie jokingly suggested that we should cycle London to Paris for a bigger challenge. To her surprise I was keen to do it. One year later and four months of full time time [...]

Last year I attended my first conference, d'Construct 07, and this year, I'm speaking at my first conference. I was asked if I could do a talk on jQuery for the QCon conference going on this week, which is where I'll be tomorrow. It's an hour long, and it'll be the first time I speak [...]

As mentioned at the end of last year, I wanted to put a new design up for my blog. The main reason behind the decision was this blog's focus is code, and the design I had was way too narrow for the code samples. Since I'm a developer and not a designer, it's taken me [...]

In lieu of more technical posts, I thought I'd put down my thoughts on my 2007. I'd love to hear yours. Happy new year!

I hope Santa brought you everything you wished for (including receipts) and the wine and cheese was flowing accordingly. There's still the new years eve parties to attend, but I've been told by the wife that all 'crap' food has to be consumed by the 2nd of Jan - diets ahoy!

Year after year, here in the UK, we have the same usual rubbish for Christmas songs. We had Mr Blobby as No. 1 back in 1993 and Bob the Builder in 2000 even made it the poll position. Sure, we had a few serious ones, but come on, admit it, Mad World was almost as [...]

ASDA is well known in the UK as the penny saver, but this offer really takes the biscuit. ASDA is offering 20x330ml cans of Heineken for just 10p only! What's even better, is the minimum order value is £25. So, that's 5,000 cans of beer for £25...that's one hell of a binge!