28th July 2013 7:20 pm

The idea of building an entire web app using nothing but JavaScript has always appealed to me. Despite its undoubted flaws, JavaScript is a…

21st April 2013 10:06 pm

In my day job, I recently finished PagePooch , a tool for monitoring web pages for changes in content or prices. It's a project that I'm…

15th December 2012 12:26 am

One thing that I've really never liked about PHP is the requirement to install a full-blown web server, so I was pleased when PHP 5.…

3rd November 2012 4:43 pm

Ever since I first heard of Cucumber , it's seemed like something I would find really useful. Like many developers, especially those who…

5th September 2012 12:13 am

The other day I got to wondering about how I could quickly and easily count how many commits I was making to a specific Git repository every…