Category Archives: Random Post

What do you consider when building a new application?

When you’re starting a new project and thinking about what you’re going to use in your application, what factors do you consider? Sometimes this depends on what your role is, so a develop will jump straight in with just use X coding language and continue on their way. Whereas other might want to play with whatever the new and latest technology is. Then there is people like myself that likes to think about the whole picture, and so here are some of the key factors I consider when building a new application.

Accessible Table Generator

Content Editors entering content is the bane of all developers lives, as the Editors will add in the most ill-systematic mark-up through the Content Management System (CMS). However they are not developer and do not know what they are doing, that’s why I build an Accessible Table Generator for the Editors at my work.

Less code and more tools

In the world of automation, DevOps and a huge amount of tools for website development are we doing less code and so becoming less of a developer and more of an admin? Over the few years of me doing web development I how found more things have come out the box to reduce the amountContinueContinue reading “Less code and more tools”

Galen Framework Hover in JavaScript

A bit of a small audience for this one, but a project I was put on wanted to us the Galen Framework to test their UI. For people who do not know what this framework is, it is a method of writing acceptance code that matches up to the output in the browser window. This can be coded to work for all different device, sizes and URLs. One hard space I came to was to action the hover state of an element and then test it.

MS Word special characters Regex

That pesky Microsoft! They have to be different and mess us developers around don’t they. Have you ever noticed that Microsoft Word’s symbols look a bit different or act a little odd? Well it’s because they are not the standard char characters. This can be a pain for Regex and other things. So how doContinueContinue reading “MS Word special characters Regex”