Articles From My Journeys Around The Internet

For those of you that want to stalk me, here is a collection of my articles from around the web.

Getting Started In The Development Community

Published on May 1, 2012 at Scrunchup External Site

Programming/web development is hard. Really hard. All those foreign concepts that you have to learn before you can even write “Hello World!” or add a sidebar to a website. This article attempts to explain the best ways to find the information and how you are expected to behave in the development community (hint: correct spelling and grammar is important).

The Importance Of Writing

Last updated on April 25, 2012

Writing is one of the most important things anyone can do, whether you wish to write a diary, a novel or even just well formed emails. Everybody has their own reasons for writing, but it is something that everybody wishes they could do well. This is not going to be an article to help you [...]

A Basic Guide To Passwords and Social Engineering

Published on February 1, 2012 at Dream In Code External Site

Heavily inspired by Kevin Mitnick’s book “A Ghost In The Wires”, this article is an introduction to security for actual users rather than system administrators.

Putting It All Together – By Making A Button

Published on March 26, 2011 at Dream In Code External Site

While answering questions about CSS on Dream In Code I realised that a lot of people were able to add a background or even float a div, but they were not able to put it all together into something actually usable. So I created this tutorial that focuses on how adding styles to an element can quickly result in something fairly aesthetically pleasing.

The “Comprehensive” Guide To CSS3

Published on February 23, 2010 at Dream In Code External Site

This article was originally going to be the one article to cover everything CSS3. Then I realised why nobody else had done it.. “everything” is an awful lot. But although it did not get as far as I wanted, it is still useful reference material and fairly well explained for beginners.