New Site, New Design
A new site, a new site design for the New Year.
Dependency Inversion Principle
Covers Dependency Injection, Service Location, TDD & Mocking (how they play together nicely), Auto-mocking, IOC tools and a little best practice.
Great Software Design Slides
Slides from a talk about Great Software Design. Takes in SOLID, Design Patterns, Anti-Patterns and Tips.
Sociable Software Delivery - An Introduction to BDD
Slides from a talk about Behaviour Driven Development. From idea to working software.
The Best GTD App
The best GTD app is revealed with a roundup up of some of the best GTD apps for Android and Mac, following their in depth reviews.
GTD App Review - Conqu
Conqu is a good looking GTD specific app for a host of platforms. With a decent feature set, clearly and simply laid out.
GTD App Review - Nozbe
Nozbe's new Mac app is a well thought out GTD specific app, that has some great integration with other popular services like Dropbox and Evernote.
XKCD Couch New Feature - Remote Control
XKCD Couch gets a new feature. The remote control. Navigate to more comics from your couch.
Cassette. The Javascript CSS Minifying Combining Compressing Tool for ASP.NET
Reducing your page load times by minifying, combining, compressing and caching your css and javascript files with Cassette.
Backbone on the Couch
A simple Backbone.js plugin for use in leanback apps, where someone is sat on the couch using a remote control to use your app.
Introducing XKCD Couch
An app for lounging on your couch, with your remote control, flicking through XCKD comics on your TV.
Testing Backbone with Jasmine and Sinon
An example of using Jasmine and Sinon to test a Backbone app. A XKCD leanback app for the basis of a html5 boxee app.
Santander Login Translations
Santanders online banking login makes me think every time I use it. Some handy translations for logging in.
Business Model Canvas Slides @ Lean Liverpool
Slides from a presentation about Business Model Canvas. What it is and how you can use it with Lean Startup and Customer Development.
GTD App Review - Producteev
A beautifully designed task list app, that's a pure joy to use. You can't help but feel that every little piece has been well thought out and designed.
GTD App Review - Astrid
Popular task list app for Android, that is easy to use and comes with a host of syncing options.
GTD App Review - Wunderlist
Wunderlist is a beautiful looking free app that is unbelievably simple to use. Providing that same experience across all the major platforms and devices.
GTD App Review - Doit.im
Doit.im is a fantastic multi-platform free service, designed specifically for GTD. It has a pleasant simplicity about it, that looks great and makes it easy to use.
GTD App Review - Toodledo
Toodledo is an extremely feature rich web app but unfortunately this is also its falldown. The UI is complicated and not pleasant to use.
GTD App Review - Due Today
Great looking app, that is easy to navigate and manage tasks on a small screen. Highly configurable.
GTD App Review - TODO for Mac
Great app with an impressive number of features whilst still managing to be easy to use
GTD App Review - Who and What
A review of 10 GTD apps for PC and mobile. Shortlisted for offline access, speed, multi-device and beauty.
Lessons Learnt from Applying Lean Startup on a Mobile Phone
Lessons learned from applying Lean Startup to a mobile phone app. Laters for Android is an app being built using lean startup principles.
Essential Wordpress Setup
The essential guide to setting up a blog or CMS with Wordpress. Ensuring I and my visitors get the best experience.
Lean Startup on a Mobile Phone
Trying out some Lean startup techniques in a mobile phone app
Personal Kanban
What else is a programmer/geek to do when he's just moved house and a new baby is on its way? It's Personal Kanban time.
Build Broken Greasemonkey Script for TeamCity
A script that turns the TeamCity overview page green if the build is good and a bad red if any builds are broken.
BDD Talk
Slides from a talk I gave about what is Behaviour Driven Design (BDD)
CouchDB. It's too easy
CouchDB is very easy to install and the UX is fantastic. It's not what you expect from a highly scalable data store!
