Brian Barnett
Being a front-end software/web/app developer, in 2015, is awesome; we have evergreen browsers from all the major providers, the amount of browser specific hacks we need to use are the fewest. So many things have changed so much for the better. JavaScript as a language is going from strength to strength with the adoption of […]
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 […]