Writing

The occasional longer piece.

14 Jan 2014
Back to Front show #20
I recently had the pleasure of standing in for Kieran to guest co-host episode 20 of the Back to Front show with Keir. Head over there to listen to me rambling vaguely coherently about back-end...
28 May 2013
Caffeine is great, to a point!
Coffee in the morning, yes. Coffee in the afternoon, maybe. For the last few months I’ve been restricting myself to only drinking caffeinated beverages before 3pm in an attempt to kick my sleeping pattern back...
7 Feb 2011
Good API Documentation
So you're a developer (you're not a developer? then maybe this post isn't for you, but feel free to read on), and as with most developers you spend a lot of your time looking up...
20 Jan 2010
How to track traffic exiting your site
Thanks to the great work Google have been putting in, we can now gather an enormous amount of information about our site visitors for free using Google Analytics. One of the metrics that I have...
27 Nov 2009
URL ABC
This is an old post recovered from the Internet Archive. Here’s a fun game from Tim Van Damme. A simple game: Go to the address bar in your favorite browser, and type one letter. Start...
6 Nov 2009
DXVA and MKV in Windows 7
This is an old post recovered from the Internet Archive, unfortunately the images could not be recovered. The Microsoft WMF codec supplied with Windows 7 does a pretty good job of decoding most formats including...