Going cash free
One thing that has been annoying me recently is the amount of cash that I seem to be spending on crap; mainly food crap. I’m generally fairly good with money and my standard technique is to take out a...
View ArticleSimple jQuery concat/expando plug-in
One of the ‘cool’ little features I managed to shoe-horn into capitalradio.co.uk London Guide was a nice little jQuery plug-in that I called the “expando of win”. It’s a fairly simple piece of...
View ArticleAsk Ross anything!
Yesterday night I had planned to come home and write up some slides on something interesting for todays BarCamp at The Guardian offices. Instead of that I came home, noticed that there was beer in the...
View ArticleAnother weird IE6 (and 7 and 8) bug
This morning I saw an email going around the LBi mailing list from one of the application developers mentioning some weird behavior noticed in IE. In a nutshell a load of CSS modules had been...
View ArticleWriting jQuery/javascript that doesn’t suck
At the start of the year I was asked by the London Web Standards Group to do a talk at their January meet-up and after a bit of thinking I decided to talk about writing jQuery/javaScript that doesn’t...
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Come work with me for the Mozilla Foundation
We’re looking to recruit this week (14th March 2012) – watch this space! At the moment I’m the only developer on my team at Mozilla, in fact I’m the only person in my team. I am “Team Ross”....
View ArticleRetiring drumbeat.org – our plans
Drumbeat.org in it’s current state has been live for a year and has helped support the Drumbeat community that: has produced numerous projects that have since become core components to the Mozilla...
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to 2013 and beyond…
If this blog is anything to go by all I ended up doing in 2012 was kill off a website, LOOK for a new member of the Mozilla Foundation WebDev team and rage tweet to near comedic levels. Thankfully that...
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Images – why the right format matters
Websites in the past few years have started to suffer from bloatedness and over-indulgance. People have predicted that an average site may hit 2mb by the end of 2013 which is fairly hefty, especially...
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Responsive design – have we come full circle?
Responsive Day Out, or #responsiveconf (or #beefcheeks) was a one day conference held down in Brighton and organised by Jeremy Keith. The talks were fast and furious (20 minutes each) and followed by a...
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Writing a good bug
It’s a bit of a cliche (as google image search show us) but one of the best ways to get contributing to an Open Source (OS) project is to file a bug. It can occasionally seem a pretty silly and...
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Easy Open Source workflow
So you’ve found an open source project to contribute to but you don’t really know where to start? It can all look pretty daunting but the good news is that it’s just a process of pretty easily...
View ArticleThe bad week
So a few weeks ago if you follow me on Twitter you would have seen me bitching about having a bad week; to be fair I bitch on Twitter about bad days/weeks/months rather more than I would like but...
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No longer (officially) a MoFo
So in what is probably a rather poorly kept secret I now no longer work for the Mozilla Foundation, in fact my last day was last week but in an attempt to stay ‘offline’ for a little while after that...
View ArticleAll the good updates
It was just over three months ago that I got diagnosed with diabetes and heard that my mum had cancer, news that topped off my most recent bout of depression and left me making the tough decision to...
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The summer of fun
I have had a day of clearing my head as today is my last day of being unemployed. The job I said I had lined up is starting tomorrow and after a whole summer of ‘slacking off’ (or relaxing as I think...
View ArticleWhy wouldn’t you use HTML5?
At work we’re about to start on a nice big project. The plan is to take our current codebase, strip out a ton of the cruft (the kind that grows and grows when the same code base is worked on for...
View ArticleHealthy
I’ve been out and about in recent months at some awesome events (MozFest and Full Frontal) which has again put me in touch with some fairly amazing people who I’ve certainly not seen as much as I would...
View ArticleBye bye hotels.com
So once again I’m moving jobs after being offered a role that I’ve been looking for since leaving Mozilla and having my 2013 summer holiday; I’m going to be the Head of Front-End Development at...
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