Recently while doing my daily trawl through Hacker News I came across this blog post titled, Sim Cards Must Die. The article claims that one day we’ll choose phone networks like we do wireless networks and can change plans whenever we want. The sim card is quite possibly one of the best things to have [...]
Recently on a client WordPress website I needed a simple way to get Vimeo video thumbnails via video ID. I couldn’t find anything readily available or even a snippet, so I created a function that helps out and even has a return or echo option as well.
Online tech blogs are masturbating over the news Yahoo! has finally lodged an official suit against Facebook for allegedly violating patents that it owns the rights to. Sure, the patents are heavily broad and the criteria of the patents Facebook are supposedly breaching would easily apply to Google, Posterous, Twitter and <insert any social site [...]
Unless you’ve been living in a cave with your fingers in your ears for the past few months then you would know that Microsoft released a consumer preview of their next flagship OS Windows 8 with its controversial and new touch interface called Metro. One clunky interface To put it bluntly: Microsoft have essentially created [...]
Every web developer will face the question: what happens if the user resizes their browser – a few times in their career. The answer is: nobody resizes their browser except you. You may think little Timmy or John Doe are going to resize the site you just built, but they’re not. The only people who [...]
You’re a freelancer, you’ve been slaving away for weeks at a project you way under-quoted and now you just want to get it done and get paid. When it comes to invoice the client, they’re being difficult; making demands, claiming things weren’t done and aren’t working as expected. It happens, and many companies or even [...]
After wanting to order a suit from online store Indochino for a while now an upcoming event made me decide to take the leap and order one. I had only read great things about Indochino so being sceptical or worried about forking over a few hundred dollars wasn’t an issue. Choosing and creating your suit [...]