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Hackdays

2012-05-06T11:55:45Z

The slides for a lightning talk I presented at Bacon Conf a few weekends ago.

Using Node.js and Ruby on Rails for uber productivity

2012-05-06T11:55:09Z

A talk about a site I recently launched using Ruby on Rails and Node.js which needed to scale to 3000 concurrent users.

Node-sass

2012-05-06T12:01:27Z

A javascript wrapper around the new libsass c++ library for compiling sass in node.js that I've been hacking on.

Sinatra is a Hammer

2012-05-06T11:54:21Z

A presentation about the benefits of using rails over sinatra that I made last year.

Post 713

2012-05-06T11:52:29Z

LNUG April Meetup - Lightning Talks

2012-04-06T16:19:01Z

This month at the London Node.js User Group we're doing lightning talks, please get in touch if you'd like to speak.

Post 711

2012-04-06T16:17:18Z

Split 0.4.1 released

2012-04-06T16:16:05Z

Split, the Rack Based AB testing framework, has just been updated to 0.4.1, with a few important bug fixes and the ability to disable it via a configuration option.

CoderDojo

2012-04-01T17:17:12Z

Forward is now hosting a weekly coding school for kids called CoderDojo.

CoderDojo is a movement orientated around running free not-for-profit coding clubs and regular sessions for young people.

If you know any kids who would like to get involved then send them and their parents the link.

Are you a Brogrammer Quiz

2012-03-25T15:50:13Z

Answer some questions and we’ll calculate your Broficiency Quotient (BQ).

My BQ is -95, making me a standard nerd!

Interactive download graphs on rubygems.org

2012-03-25T15:48:48Z

A couple weeks ago I submitted a pull request to http://rubygems.org that added interactive graphs to the stats pages for each gem.

Since then it's been deployed to the live site and is working great!

Post 706

2012-03-10T08:58:45Z

A little something I'm working on

Split 0.4.0 released

2012-03-10T08:56:15Z

I've released a new version of split, it has quite a few improvements including experiment start times, visitors only participating in one experiment by default, cleaning up old sessions and some bug fixes.

Split featured on Railscasts

2012-03-10T08:49:02Z

This is pretty awesome, Split has been featured on Railscasts, a full 10 minute tutorial of how to do A/B testing with split and some of its more advanced features.

Post 703

2012-03-03T10:06:51Z

An Evening with Go Tickets

2012-03-03T10:04:51Z

Tickets are now available for the Go meet up that I have been organising in the Forward Offices on 20th March.

Project Euler

2012-03-03T10:04:03Z

I've recently been taking a stab at the Project Euler challenges, these are the solutions I've done so far in Ruby.

Post 700

2012-02-25T09:05:26Z

Deploying Go apps on Heroku

2012-02-25T08:29:01Z

I've been dabbling with Go recently and this guide to deploying Go web apps is really handy.

Post 698

2012-02-25T08:12:33Z

My first ever dribbble post.

Base62.js

2012-02-25T08:11:46Z

A small but helpful library I released yesterday for encoding and decoding base62 strings, ideal for url shorteners.

It's also my first npm release, you can install it with the following command:

npm install base62

London Web Standards Slides

2012-02-17T18:55:00Z

Last week I spoke at London Webstandards about the LNUG website, these are the slides from my talk.

Fast Kat

2012-02-17T18:54:07Z

A fun little HTML5 3D game.

How to transfer your number between mobile providers

2012-02-17T18:52:46Z

A surprisingly useful little page that gives you the exact instructions for switching your number between each UK mobile provider.

I just moved from O2 to 3 mobile and couldn't be happier.

Stereographic Google Streetview

2012-02-17T18:51:27Z

This awesome visualisation of Google Streetview with blow your mind!

Devs Love Bacon

2012-02-17T18:50:42Z

A really interesting 2 day London conference in April put on by the guys at Mint Digital with a great mix of speakers.

Cherry-pick twitter account

2012-02-17T18:48:57Z

I'm now syndicating http://cherry-pick.tumblr.com to twitter so you can easily follow along with the best repos each day.

Forward Live

2012-02-17T18:47:51Z

We've just finished our live streaming setup for meet ups that our hosted in our office, you can now watch the meetups live from the comfort of your own home (without the free beer and pizza that we usually provide).

An Evening with Go

2012-02-10T22:41:41Z

An event that I've been organising to introduce the Go programming language to more developers across London.

It's on 20th March and it's completely free!

Hacking Events Management

2012-02-10T22:37:32Z

The slides from a presentation I did recently about hosting meet ups and events.

Split 0.3.2 released

2012-02-12T10:42:28Z

Split, the Rack Based AB testing framework, has just been updated to 0.3.2 and it now handles redis errors and downtime gracefully.

Forward Technology Newsletter #2

2012-02-10T22:33:46Z

I just recently sent out second Forward Technology newsletter, getting my feet wet with email marketing.

If you've not signed up already here's the link: http://forwardtechnology.co.uk/newsletter

LNUG Job Board

2012-02-05T08:56:03Z

I've added a free job board to the LNUG website, the only catch is that you have to come along to a meet up to be able to post on there.

Lanyrd Guides

2012-02-05T08:54:51Z

Lanyrd recently shipped a new curated guides feature and I've created a few of my own.

Post 682

2012-02-05T08:54:07Z

Tea lovers survey

2012-02-09T20:21:56Z

I'm investigating a service for people who really love tea, if that's you please answer the following questions to help me see into your mind.

Decommission

2012-02-05T08:53:42Z

A little command gem that helps you quickly discover which versions of rails all your apps are running.

Vegas Photo Set

2012-02-05T08:52:52Z

Some photos from my recent trip to Las Vegas

Zerply Profile

2012-02-05T08:52:14Z

Zerply is a new professional profile site, like a less spammy, nicer looking LinkedIn, I've created a profile on there if you'd like to endorse my work.

Cherry-Pick

2012-02-05T08:50:36Z

A new tumblr blog I've been working on that highlights some of the best work on Github.

Post 677

2012-02-05T08:47:40Z

Is Eventmachine a worthy alternative to Node.js slides Video

2011-12-13T11:00:21Z

The video from my talk at RubyManor about event machine and node.js a couple months ago.

Wonderpants

2011-11-26T18:37:43Z

The new iPhone game by Scramble, the new game studio from Forward.

Is Eventmachine a worthy alternative to Node.js slides

2011-11-26T18:35:55Z

The slides from my talk at RubyManor about event machine and node.js a couple months ago.

Forward Technology Newsletter

2011-11-26T18:33:54Z

I've started a newsletter full of all the cool events and projects we have going on at Forward.

Now

2011-11-26T18:32:28Z

A small, focused, web-based todo list I've been using for a month or so now based on rails and mongodb.

Forward Technology Movember Team

2011-11-26T18:31:14Z

Some of us from Forward have been growing our mo's for Movember, any donations would be much appreciated.

Forward Technology Batcat

2011-11-26T18:29:38Z

A fun little page I whipped up last week on the Forward Technology site, you might also spot Batcat hiding in our developer page

Lanyrd Gem

2011-11-26T18:28:04Z

I've started building a little gem for interacting with the unofficial Lanyrd API, which I found by watching how their new iPhone app loads it data.

Once they release an official api I'll switch it to use that.

Split.js

2011-11-30T13:50:43Z

A clientside A/B testing library I put together this morning.

It currently uses google analytics as the datastore for experiments, this may be extended to handle multiple data stores in the future including the Split ruby library.