Category: Writing

Thank you. That’s how today ended, with a rousing applause of Aral Balkan’s day long speaking workshop he finished with a simple thank you. The conclusion tied the day nicely together though. Speaking isn’t rocket science, but it is a science. There are things that you can do to prepare and make the entire experience… Continue reading Review of the Slide and Stage

Today’s weather might be grey but I’m in a good mood. Today I’m not taking my usual journey up the Northern Line to Old Street, instead I’m on the train in the opposite direction down to Brighton to attend the Slide & Stage one day workshop with Aral Balken. A few years ago I made… Continue reading Slide and Stage

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