Projects

Video for Everybody!

Video for Everybody is an HTML snippet that embeds HTML5 <video>, with fallbacks to QuickTime and Flash all without JavaScript.

ReMarkable

ReMarkable is a Markdown like syntax and parser to convert plain text to HTML.
All the content on this site is written using it.

Improved Title Case Function for PHP

My PHP port of David Gouch’s port of John Gruber’s original Title Case script.

HTML5 / CSS3

I develop and write about these.

• Video for Everybody!
• How to Learn HTML5
• How to Centre and Layout Pages Without a Wrapper
• How to Use <abbr> in HTML5, and in General

Popular articles

Articles that are of note, or that have been popular in the past

• The Price That Cannot Be Bartered
• Will Apple Embrace the Web? No.
• This Is Where We Are Going
• Welcome
• Website Optimisation Measures
• A List of People Who Need to Stop Writing Software
• Hello.
• GEOS: The Graphical Environment Operating System

‘Under the Hood’

A series of articles covering the code and techniques used in this site. Covers HTML5, CSS3 and PHP.

• Under the Hood #1: Is a PNG 32-Bit? in One Line
• Under the Hood #2: Internal / External Links, the CSS3 Way
• Under the Hood #3: Using a Quick & Easy SQLite Database
• Under the Hood #4: Getting a File’s Mime-Type From Apache
• Under the Hood #5: New Website-Ish
• Under the Hood #6: Beautiful CSS dates!
• Under The Hood #7: Floaty Abbreviations!

OSnews Articles

I am an editor at osnews.com and have contributed a number of technology articles, some of which are kept here.