18 December 2018
First the dungeon crawl, next the hex crawl, then came the point crawl. Now card crawls? Here's another tool in a DM's kit for spicing up a game. Read more
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11 December 2018
First the dungeon crawl, next the hex crawl, then came the point crawl. Now card crawls? Here's another tool in a DM's kit for spicing up a game. Read more
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25 July 2017
As I build more stuff with Laravel, I realise that the process for starting up a new project is more or less the same each time. This post is a summary of the steps that I normally take to kick off a new app. Read more
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11 July 2017
Still the number one blogging platform, Wordpress.com is a great way to get online for free. But there are a few practical steps that bloggers should take to ensure their content is the highest possible quality. Read more
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04 April 2017
Handling basic form submissions in Laravel controllers can be a chore, with repeated code doing similar things over and again. The approach I've been using to get DRY-er code is to abstract out form submissions, making them much less laborious and less prone to error. Read more
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18 October 2016
I recently had to add a toggling widget to a web page. I didn't want to reload the whole page, but I did want the page to update after the data had been processed. How is this done? Why, AJAX, of course. Read more
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04 October 2016
A common pattern in web applications is to submit data, add it to the database, then update the view. In this post, I outline a very simple set of PHP functions to do this, and a couple of tricks to bear in mind. Read more
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16 August 2016
Rectangles are the default shape for elements on a web page, but since when do web designers stick to defaults? 24 Ways guides the way to using non-standard shapes in our designs. Read more
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