Twitter To Third Party App Developers: Fuck You

In-case you didn’t already hear, Michael Sippey of Twitter has just announced drastic changes to Twitter which will affect pretty much every single decent 3rd party app that uses the Twitter API. Essentially what Twitter have done is taken a 10 inch piece of steel and rammed it as hard and far as it will [...]

Are You Burning Your Talent?

The general consensus of a lot of places I’ve worked at whether it be the opinion of a manager or old way of thinking directly from the top is that if you don’t have an IDE open on your screen or web browser instance of a work related website or project you’re slacking off. It’s this kind [...]

The Problem With Woocommerce (It’s Crap)

First time Woocommerce user, long time WP-Ecommerce user. I recently built a store using WordPress to sell some t-shirts online as a work project via my employer which had basic variations, bulk pricing and you pay via Paypal – sounds simple enough right? I wanted to see what all of the fuss was about Woocommerce, [...]

The One Thing To Remember To Succeed In Life

The only way to succeed in life is to fail, and you will fail more than once.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]