Brian Barnett
I’m not going to go into the ‘What is React/Why use it’ – if you need some motivation as to why, read why react? and take 45 minutes to watch Rethinking web app development. So, for this post, I’m going to walk through building a simple Tic-Tac-Toe (Noughts & Crosses to us Brits) game, no […]
After getting a legacy project into Git version control on my local machine today, I was ready to push up to the repository created in our on-site hosted Git server. But, I kept getting the following error message:
It’s been just over a year working in the NHS, and it has been a very interesting experience where I have had the pleasure to work on some really great new systems using all the modern web has to offer, but have also had to work with and improve/maintain some not so enjoyable legacy systems, […]
There has never been a better time to pick up JavaScript as a first or an additional language, it is quickly becoming the language of the modern web. The current standard (ECMAScript 5) is a relatively small language compared to Java and PHP, and shares their C style syntax, but this is pretty much where […]
The new Twitter profile screens are pretty awful, the design itself I can live with, but the silly varying font size is awful! To put all the fonts back to 14px in size, paste this into the developer console: This will stick until a page refresh, twitter will sometimes do this, so its not a […]
Getting Package Control for Sublime Text 3 installed when behind a corporate firewall can be a challenge, so much so that I keep forgetting how to do it whenever I get a given a new computer to work on – so time to write this down! Install CNTLM – once installed, open the cntlm.ini file […]
Why do keyboards not have a ” assigned to a key that doesn’t need to be pressed with a modifier?? As a developer, I use the key often, but there isn’t an obvious key to remove as such. What this keyboard mapping will do, is make the Back Tick ` key the ” instead. The […]