Category: Writing

Holy F&CK. That is the message that I sent to my pregnant finance just after I picked up the award for Best Side Project of the Year at the .net magazine awards ceremony. A quick snap of the side project and award together on the train up to Leeds. As I write this I’m on… Continue reading .net Magazine Awards 2013

I umm’d and ahh’d about the title of this post for a while because I wasn’t sure I could call the responsive design newsletter successful. To me that seems a little big headed and it wasn’t until I had someone at a bar come up and tell me that they loved the newsletter that I… Continue reading Running a Successful Weekly Newsletter

Am I Responsive has been nominated for Side Project of the Year in this years’s .net Awards. I am honoured to have made the shortlist along side the other wonderful nominations and am thrilled to know that a project that I started to help save me time has assisted so many people. If you have… Continue reading Vote for Am I Responsive as .net

When kicking off with any new project I like to try and find out as much information from the client as possible before getting back to them with a quote or project plan. It’s a fine balance, you don’t want to put the client off with too much work to begin with but you need… Continue reading Project Questionnaire

I decided to put together a visualisation of all the urls that have been tested on Am I Responsive so I needed to do a bit of digging into Google Analytics. There are two areas that track the URL’s, the Content page for when people use ?url= or press enter after adding their url, and… Continue reading Download more than 500 rows from Google Analytics

I’ve decided to test out New Relic for no other reason then I’m interested in what the server is doing and it’s something that I wanted to know how to do. It has nothing at all to do with the free trip to New York they are giving away this month. Nothing. Honest. One of… Continue reading Server Monitoring with New Relic

If you’re anything like me you’ve probably got several domain names. My count at the moment heads into the late teens, but over the course of the next year I’ll let a few of those lapse. The main issues I have is that I have 3 domains for myself. What do I mean by “myself”?… Continue reading Content Organisation

Creating your own framework is hard. Building a responsive website is hard. Crafting a website that is as good on mobile as it is on a 50″ television as it is on a PS3 is really hard. Someone posted a question about writing your own framework vs using an existing tool and it got me… Continue reading Do you like, like Frameworks?

As part of my other post about Alexander Headland surf I had to get the images from the camera to the laptop to the server to you. Most of those steps are pretty straight forward, but the path from the laptop to the server can be done better than you might think. I use Amazon… Continue reading Setting Cache with Amazon S3