Web-development is what I do

I am a freelance web-developer focused on creating engaging web experiences. Creating useful and relevant user interfaces is my passion, and something I take every opportunity I can to further my own knowledge and creativity.

Based in Fife, in bonny Scotland, I have been developing web-sites since 1998, and like to challenge myself with each new site I work on; developing a new technique to work with or using a new technology. In this way I have become proficient in many web development and graphics packages, although my main tool of choice will always be a text editor!

Expertise

As you will be able to guess as you look around this site, I am the author of several open source libraries and applications which are useful for web-development. These projects include:

  • DataTables
    • Flexible jQuery plug-in for HTML tables
    • Well documented, suitable for new and experienced developers
    • Building a strong community for developer support and plug-ins creation
    • Created plug-ins such as Scroller, KeyTable, FixedHeader and TableTools
  • Design
    • Suite of design assistive tools, as a Javascript bookmarklet
    • Overlay tools such as a customisable grid and rulers on any web-page
    • It really is incredibly powerful - Paul Boag
  • Conditional-CSS
    • Use IE style conditional comments inline with style-sheets
    • Target any browser with specific CSS to get around those awkward rendering bugs
    • Several feature identical deployment options: C, C# and PHP
    • It is as bomb-proof as wearing a steel hat in an concrete bunker - Andy Clarke
  • Visual Event
    • View events attached to DOM elements visually
    • Useful for debugging event driven code - particularly someone else's code
    • Works with YUI, jQuery, MooTools and Prototype Javascript libraries among others

Work with me

If you would like to work with me on a project, please get in touch and let's talk!

The web today

Bullet time surfing
What could possibly be cooler than surfing? Surfing with bullet time captures - amazing work from Rip Curl. Seriously - watch the video!
Big changes for Flash
This week Adobe has announced an end to mobile Flash development and Flex now appears to be heading out of the door as well.
Getting started with SVG
Interesting post from the IEBlog about how to get started with SVG. With the level of support in browser now, SVG will hopefully go prime time.
Javascript ES.next
Brendan Eich gives us an interesting overview of what is happening in the Javascript specification world at the moment.
Reveal - jQuery modals
Writing a basic modal library is reasonably trivial, and something most developers will do for their application, but this is a really nice generic library from ZURB that will save you time.