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These are my (personal) thoughts on 'Building Mobile Apps For A Global Audience In An Agile Way' - a meetup organized by Sky as part of their LeedsTechHub concept. I found the event to be generally fantastic. Being based in Leeds it is certainly great to see tech

This post forms part of my tidbits series, a series of short posts outlining things that I have discovered whilst building various Double Negative products. These posts seek to: * Remind me of technical intricacies (when I inevitably forget) * Hopefully help others build top quality products Re-register for APNS When building

As a software engineer, it is to all extents and purposes a requirement that one has at least a basic understanding of (and appreciation for) character encoding. On that basis, before we go any further I must implore you to read Joel Spolsky's article on Unicode. I have

Race details The MBNA Chester Metric Marathon was held on the 4th October 2015 in Chester, Wales. It was my first metric marathon, and I finished it in 1:52:55. More information about the race can be found here. Travel and accommodation We chose Chester because of its proximity

My current build process for PubReviews.com utilizes Grunt. On occasion I have seen 'Esprima' outputted within my build logs. I have always been happy to allow the internals of the tools which I utilize for build and release cycles to keep their internals relatively hidden. That was

Model View Controller (MVC) is a very well known design pattern. It is utilised within application development across multiple platforms. The issue that I have always had with it is not clearly defined - the pattern lacks clarity. What I mean by this is that because people define each piece

Ten months ago I wrote an article about the lifecycle of the UIViewController. My context for writing that post was various issues that I had encountered whilst developing a product based around tabbed content. More recently I have been working on a project where I have encountered issues associated with

The Double Negative blog (you are reading it..) runs on the Ghost blogging platform. The decision to use Ghost was a simple one. * It is made by great developers and has been built well. * It is written in javascript (Node.js) and allowed me to learn and play with some

FastCGI "is a binary protocol for interfacing interactive programs with a web server" (from Wikipedia). In the same vain as my nginx in 15 minutes post, I thought i'd outline FastCGI, and its implementation on nginx with PHPFPM. A FastCGI server is independent of your web

In the process of building multiplatform applications which integrate with social platforms I have been required to investigate Facebook's developer tools and processes. Unfortunately the process has been somewhat painful. I thought I would document the curiosities I encountered such that anyone else encountering them can resolve them

I am currently tying up various loose ends on a full stack project that we have invested a lot of our development time into over the past six months. As a general knowledge exercise, and to make sure our server setup is optimized I have spent the past few hours