2014-09-12T17:12:33.962Z

The ability to understand how software works, to write code, and to build an application is undoubtedly useful. It's something that most office workers, regardless of whether or not they realise it, actually do on a regular basis - obviously if you…

2014-07-12T17:12:33.962Z

Everywhere we go we spew forth a veritable deluge of personal information, giving a detailed account of our daily lives to anyone with the tenacity to bother listening. The microscopic minutiae of our most mundane activities is the apparent life…

2014-05-12T17:12:33.962Z

If you listen to politicians and the media when they talk about national security, terrorism, and awful threats from parties unknown then you'll probably have considered where the balance lies between the security of our country to protect itself…

2014-03-12T17:12:33.962Z

It's not hard to find opinionated articles and blog posts that argue in favour of or against a particular choice of framework. Sometimes they detail why a framework goes against the 'proper' way to code something, sometimes they're 'benchmarks' that…

2014-02-12T17:12:33.962Z

" All that happens will be known. " The motto of quite-obviously-supposed-to-be-Google tech behemoth The Circle in Dave Eggers book of the same name was probably supposed to be a warning rather than a portent. As technology marches forward, driven…

2014-01-12T17:12:33.962Z

Every time a developer picks up a project that was started and maintained by someone else there's always a moment of "What the hell were they thinking?" It seems like a rational reaction to a common problem - the code base has problems, it wasn't…

2013-05-12T17:12:33.962Z

jQuery selectors are pretty straightforward things. The way they work under the bonnet isn’t quite so obvious though. For example; That’s going to go to the DOM and find everything with that has a class of ‘foo’. Easy. What’s going on behind the…

2013-03-12T17:12:33.962Z

Google’s new Glass project, the always-on head-up-display visual interface to Google’s online services, is picking up pace. The developer version of the device is available, there are services going live pretty much daily, and plenty of op-ed pieces…