Brian Barnett
I received and email from McrFRED about a little competition they are running, to enter, I just needed to tweet something McrFRED related. “It could be a McrFRED sticker, T-shirt, or you could make your own! LEGO? Desktop wallpaper? CodePen?” CodePen eh? I’ve heard of the site and checked out a few demos but never […]
Over the past month, I have been trialling Macaw to very quickly mock-up some site and web app designs – its a great tool and helps to greatly reduce the amount of Photoshop slicing I need to do. I have however noticed that on two of my Windows machines, the tool icons just didn’t appear […]
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 […]