Last weekend I was at Womad festival, helping kids fire exploding cows from catapults in Minecraft. Not my usual line of work as CTO, or typical festival experience for that matter! I was volunteering with Devoxx4Kids. We ran 3 packed out workshops across the weekend, with children ranging from about aged 6 to 13. While there was a whole range of knowledge levels, almost everyone was familiar with Scratch. Warm up before a session! .

My own wonderful world of writing and storytelling! When I was a child, there were certain things adults simply did not do, or allow to be done in the presence of children. However, it seems that nowadays, all bets are off.

God chooses what we go through. We choose how we go through it. Today Is National Step Family Day. Today is National Stepfamily Day. Happy National Stepfamily Day to all you Blending, Blended or Stepfamilies.

A highly skilled developer with a passion for the web. Working with agencies and start ups to produce awesome sites and applications. Over 8 years experience of developing scalable software solutions for the web. Offering a unique blend of strong front-end and back-end skills. Developing web apps using the technologies such as PHP, Ruby, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Scala and NodeJS. An ethos of delivering quality features. Once live, a c.

Visual regression testing with PhantomCSS. On the 6th of November 2012. I finally decided to open source an insane idea I had about 10 months earlier, an idea that had seemed so obvious, yet so impossible. To test the UI as a person would, by seeing. An automated visual regression test suite. But the idea had never become popular. Contracts for automated UI testing.