Projects

Shortcuts to ongoing pieces of work and things of interest.

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.

Video for Everybody!

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

Improved Title Case Function for PHP

One of the most popular things people find on my site via Google.
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!
• Targeting Browsers With CSS Using mod_rewrite
• How to Learn HTML5
• How to Use <abbr> in HTML5, and in General

Popular articles

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

• This Is Where We Are Going
• Welcome
• Website Optimisation Measures
• A List of People Who Need to Stop Writing Software
• Hello.
• When It’s Better to Receive Than Give:
• 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.