Each year, since 2006, Julie and I have planned a Christmas movie day, where we watch a day of Christmas spirited films whilst eating various Christmas type food (basically: volauvents). We have a rule that we can't watch the same film two years in a row, but we're secretly trying to watch different films each [...]

I'm a little late to the game of year reviews (since we're a few days in), but this blog was originally designed to supplement my memory, so I'm going to brain-dump my year, more for me, but also for you (if you're interested!). Here's what I got up to in 2009.

This may well have been done before, who knows, but I came across a great question on Stack Overflow: how did you get started in computing?

I turned 30 years old, much to the dismay of my real world colleagues - who still think I'm 17! Perhaps if I shave my beard off...

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 [...]