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Thursday, 9 July 2009
If you follow me on Twitter you may have read about this last week, but 1st July saw the launch of a website I’ve spent a few months working on: Helping Groups to Grow.

Helping Groups to Grow is a lottery-funded non-profit organisation that supports drug and alcohol misusers through group and one-to-one sessions across Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion and Powys.
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Monday, 8 June 2009

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been using ExpressionEngine on a client project. Other than briefly playing with it about a year ago, this is the first time that I’ve really got to grips with ExpressionEngine and deployed it on a live project. So, I thought I’d share some of my initial impressions.
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Monday, 19 January 2009

As a freelancer or self employed person, you are your most valuable asset. It is vital you invest in yourself by developing your own skills and ability whether through formal training or more informal ‘on-the-job’ training.
The start of a year is of course a great time to look forward and think about how you would like to better yourself. In this unashamedly self-focused blog post, I list a few areas I am planning to focus my attentions on, and how I’m intending to do so. If nothing else, this article will be useful to refer back to in six months time to evaluate how well I’m developing.
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Last week I asked the question on Twitter, “What HTML element do you use for each line of a form? P, DIV, or something else?” So, how do you do your forms?
This years season of 24 ways article has come to a close and with it a reoccurring theme of controversy has arisen: designing in the browser. I offer my thoughts on why it misses the point.
The problem with CSS pre-processing frameworks is that they don’t really fit within the average web designers’ work flow. So I built an extension to LESS for creating cached stylesheets your PHP projects can use.
Are you a web designer or are you a web developer? Let me guess, you are a bit of both. Does that mean you are “doing it wrong”?
If you’re like me then your life revolves around email. Unfortunately the grip that email now has on all our lives creates as many problems as it solves. Learn how I control my Inbox.
“@JohnONolan what about ear buds? do they make you cough, or just fingers?”
Posted about 10 hours ago.
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