I am currently trying to work on a mini project that uses JavaScript. I have used JavaScript many times before but I never took the time to properly learn the language. A university course covered the basics, but it focused on chemical engineering problems. The course did not look at …
I am building a small web app and wanted to include some alarms. I spent too long looking online for examples, yet couldn't find any that I liked.
I really wanted to use vanilla JavaScript AudioContex without any library. I also wanted to generate the audio alerts without an external …
Last year, I started a small side project. I spent a few hours looking at various JavaScript Frameworks before deciding which looked best to use. I then spend a couple of days worth of work building a proof of concept of my program.
The framework certainly helped at first, however …
I have just started a new coding project and I am in one of the worst phases. Before starting, I was full of ideas and enthusiasm. I could envision the finished product. I could imagine all the extra bells and whistles that could get added.
And then I started to …
Productivity can be difficult to measure at the best of times. Even more so when you are programing. This afternoon, I wanted to add a feature to a webapp I had been working on. The first step was to import some data. How hard could it be?
I wrote what …
Back in 2014, I was curious how the proportional representation system used for the EU elections, the D'Hondt method, worked. I built a simple javascript program to allocate the seats based on the number of votes for different parties, then added recent opinion polls to the page to see how …
When browsing the web, I (and I know I am not alone) am getting more and more frustrated by all the bloat that many websites throw at us. Some news websites are particularly bad. I understand that they want to make money by adding revenue from adverts, but full screen …
For the last few years I have been keeping my passwords within a password manager called passman. Development of passman has been limited recently and for a while it was blocking me upgrading my nextcloud instance.
As a result I am now begining to worry that passman may not be …
This site no longer used jQuery1. I only noticed that I was using jQuery after I ran some benchmarking tests on the site. The site did well in enough but jQuery contributed a significant amount of the load time.
After digging around, the only place that I found jQuery …
Last month, I came across (via twitter) a dyslexia-simulator. Before I go any further, I would like to make clear that I am talking from a personal perspective. I am aware that there are many different flavours of dyslexia and other people will have different experiences.
I …
After having to use conference calling to an international number for work, then dial the meeting room code, I decided to have a go at a project idea I had over a year ago. I wanted to create a webapp that would, given a number, ‘dial’ that number using the …
For a project I am doing for my dad, I created a form that requires the user to input lots of times. This was to be done in the format "HH:MM:SS". After I created the form and handed the project over for testing, it was mentioned that typing …
After another afternoon of playing with impAmp, I have updated the version of soundmanager2. This versions main addition is the ability to use flash 9 (instead of the current flash 8). Unfortunately when using flash 9, the ID3 Tag information doesn't show so is not enabled by default at the …
Whilst working on ImpAmp, I was attempting to catch when the user typed ' or / into the window without activating the firefox quick search. After hunting around on the web, I found lots of places telling me how to deactivate it permanently which is not what I want. Normally I find …
