When you’re setting up a freelance business you need to define what skills you are going to bring to market. You may even already be a freelancer taking every job you can regardless of whether it’s a good fit or not. If you don’t know what you’re going to offer…

I work with a lot of software developers who want to go freelance but think that they’re too introverted and their personality doesn’t lend itself well to marketing, getting clients & making bank. If thats you, I was exactly you too. And yet here I am, 2 years into being…

In September 2016 I was on the tram in Manchester, England commuting almost 2 hours to the first day of my first job in tech. I remember it vividly. I was listening to Ashlee Vance’s excellent biography of Elon Musk and inspired by his story I was excited to put…

Angular 10 was released today 🎉. Angular 10 is a feature lite released, it’s only been 4 months since Angular 9 was released but there are a few goodies to have a look at, not least the new Angular Material Date Range Picker. The most exiting aspect of this…

Developing for the web is rewarding, you get to code websites and apps that are available to everyone, everywhere on every device. So cool. But if you just have an inkling web development might be for you it can be confusing. …

The release of Angular 9 is near, with the recent release of Angular 9 release candidate I decided to take Ivy for a quick spin to see by how much it reduced bundle sizes. Ivy is the all new Angular renderer which promises smaller bundle sizes when you build…

iOS 13 was released to developers yesterday. It comes with exciting new features such as dark mode, enhanced augmented reality and on-device machine learning. Requirements You need to own a Mac (sorry Window’s users), be registered with Apple as a developer and own an adapter that connects your iPhone to your…

Have you ever worked with large lists of data and wondered how to present them to the user efficiently? Perhaps you’ve used a “load more” button or paginination to limit the overload that would come with dumping a huge list on your users (l)app. Introducing Virtual Scrolling in Angular. …