There are a very few words in the English that can incite rage at the sound of them like the word “cyclist” can, especially in Australia. The topic of “whether cyclists should pay …

Recently whilst working on the reskin of a mammoth web application written in PHP, I encountered a scenario where I needed to wrap elements within a div every four iterations. The task is simple …

Since NoSQL databases like MongoDB hit the mainstream scene a few years ago, it’s not uncommon to come across numerous Stackoverflow and Quora posts from people asking if or how they should …

I’ll give you a hint: it is not to catch terrorists or prevent terrorist organisations communicating and plotting terrorist acts in Australia. As Tony Abbott pointed out himself …

Move over web 2.0, AJAX, flat design and NoSQL, there is a new buzzword in town that goes by the name of The Internet of Things or as it is commonly known on every tech blog as: IoT. Wait, what is The …

The thick plastic sheet currently encasing most Australian start-ups is begging to be pricked with a venture capitalists fork. It’s not secret that investment in the Australian start-up scene is …

If you are a user of the versatile Zurb Foundation CSS framework, then you would probably have noticed it is missing one crucial component: a DateTime picker. No biggie. This plugin here is the only …

An article by Geoff Wozniak titled What ORM’s have taught me: just learn SQL was doing the rounds of Hacker News today and raises some interesting points. Similarly, I have the same feelings …

Unless you’ve been living under a rock on Mars with your fingers in your ears, then you have heard about the latest health scare to hit the mainstream media since Swine Flu: Ebola virus. As is …

A wonderful feature of Ruby on Rails and also coincidentally in Laravel 4 is mass assignment. Basically you can throw an array of values at your model and insert or update an entry from a form. In …