As of now, I am no longer accepting any freelance work. Together with Chris Martin of Coldplay Coldpie fame, we have founded a new company called Bright Machine. If you need some kick-ass mobile app or web development, then please email me here.

Below are tips that I’ve used throughout the years to get shit done on the command line. Every geek (apart from the fake ones who deploy on Windows) uses the shell every day; some of these tips I use every day, some only occasionally… anyway it’s my list of “things to remember”. Swan Dive. Some [...]

Traffic is a routing library for PHP 5.3 and above. I created traffic to take the pain out of mapping incoming requests to your site to code that does whatever you need it to do. Most existing solutions, like the atrocious Zend_Controller_Router_Rewrite whatever assume that you want to map requests to method on a class, [...]

Most websites built today use JavaScript. It is an essential building block of the web along with HTML & CSS. However, when it comes to performance JavaScript has one problem… it Blocks The Tubes™! When CSS and images are included in your HTML, they are loaded asynchronously. This is not the case with JavaScript. When [...]

Two weeks ago I met with my boss at A7 Creative to let him know that I was planning to leave as of 18th December. Although I’ve enjoyed myself at A7, with the diversity of work and the flexibility that they’ve offered me, there are a few reasons that I have now chosen to freelance. [...]