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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Create a new bookmark in Chrome from the bookmark manager->add page, with the title “Kill Twitter Promoted” and the url as: When you click on this bookmark while on the twitter website, the promoted items should be removed from view ๐
While working with a significant amount of medical and sales data that needed to be overlaid on a map, I found myself needing to draw regions that contained sales rep positions – but wanted a nice outer hull to be drawn so that reps inside the area did not need […]