The Curse of WordPress

Wordpress is a fantastic CMS, it makes my day-to-day job easy because I know it inside and out really well, any site I can build using WordPress I will because it does a lot of the heavy lifting for you. There is however a downside to using WordPress, updates. Being one of the worlds most [...]

Github For Windows, So Good It Crashes Multiple Times Daily

When I first of Github for Windows being announced I exclaimed, “Well it’s about time someone released a nice looking Windows application for interfacing with Git” after installing it and encountering a couple of crashes (I can live with that, I was still smitten) I merely restarted Github but then once the crashes kept happening [...]

‘Property ‘submit’ of object # is not a function’ Fix

Recently I worked on a project that required a form to be duplicated into an iframe for AJAX uploading of an image on a WordPress website. When triggering a submit action on my form I encountered the error: “Property ‘submit’ of object #<HTMLFormElement> is not a function” It took me believe it or not two [...]

Diablo 3 Telling Me To Buy On The Game Launch Screen

Blizzard only let you own one game licence per account, but when you launch Diablo 3 the launch screen prompts you to buy Diablo 3 even though you already own it and are launching it. Kind of weird, right?

This Is A Little Worrying

The highest grossing app in the Apple app store is a slot machine app that is free. The second most popular in-app purchase is $20, are we seeing a new generation of problem gamblers because of the ease and allure of in-app purchases?

Is It Really An Internship Or Just Slave Labour?

When you’re a university/college kid wanting to get a break in the world, you naturally try and get a internship for extra credit or just because you want the experience to give you that extra edge when you leave and head into the real world and actually start earning money. Internships or as they’re commonly [...]

A Procrastinating Developer Is Not A Lazy Developer

There’s a good chance whenever you see one or more of your work colleagues on Facebook or Reddit you immediately assume they either haven’t got much work to do or they’re slacking off, it’s this kind of backwards thinking that has effectively created a corporate work environment in non-corporate work environments (design studios, game development [...]

Better Dotted CSS Borders Using The :After Pseudo Selector

As a developer you’re sometimes given a web design that has certain elements that theoretically can be done with CSS, but don’t look quite the same. One of those I recently discovered isn’t quite the same are dotted borders. If your designer uses Photoshop as their web design tool of choice, there’s a high chance [...]

Responsive Design = Wanker Design

Responsive design is the biggest scam to ever hit the internet since Nigerian scammers discovered how to send an email. It seems every blog you go to about design and or development has a whole bunch of on articles on responsive design, why it’s so good and how simple and amazing responsive design can be: [...]

GM Pulling Facebook Ads Right Before IPO: An Intentionally Calculated Move?

Put on your tinfoil hats people, there’s a conspiracy storm a coming. If you haven’t heard already, General Motors have announced just days before Facebook launches its IPO that it is pulling its $10M Facebook advertising account citing that Facebook ads do not work and that they “regularly review their advertising spend”. While I or [...]