Front-end developer essentials – User interface design

26 May 2010 | No comments

This is the first in a series that should form the building blocks to being a good all-round front-end developer. If you peruse the current job market you will see that there is so much more than knowing how to code HTML, CSS and Javascript. Continue Front-end developer essentials – User interface design

jQuery: Accessible search toggle

22 May 2010 | 2 comments

This is an update to a post I wrote four years ago to make an accessible search toggle using Javascript. Since then Javascript libraries such as jQuery have become popular, so it makes sense to bring this post up-to-date. Continue jQuery: Accessible search toggle

Javascript shorthand for cleaner code

20 May 2010 | 23 comments

A few ways to save on some bytes in your Javascript code, as well as making it more readable and quicker to write: Continue Javascript shorthand for cleaner code

Removing forward slashes from a string

6 May 2010 | No comments

All I wanted was to remove all forward slashes in a string using Javascript. It turns out that’s more complicated than you’d think and after multiple searches on Google I finally found the answer, in a comment on somone’s post. Continue Removing forward slashes from a string

Inside guardian.co.uk blog post

1 December 2009 | 1 comment

I’ve just written a post over at the Inside guardian.co.uk blog about how, as a team, we’re trying to improve the client-side for our users.