Articles, tutorials and other ramblings
Articles about web design, development and some personal ones thrown in. Check out my portfolio.
Dave's Blog
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My Worst Job Interview
My worst job interview didn’t get me very far; not even into their office. It was just a phone call. It was a brief and kind of upsetting moment in my early career. Allow me to explain why I think this was my worst interview.
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How to Create a Jekyll Theme Gem
One of Jekyll’s noteworthy new features is the ability create official themes in the form of Ruby gems. These themes can be installed by a Jekyll user to style their static blog or website with ease, leaving them to manage their content.
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Adding Siteleaf to a GitHub Pages site
I’ve been using Siteleaf a lot recently, for both my day job and personal projects. In light of this, I decided to create a screencast of myself going through the process of adding Siteleaf to a pre-existing site running on GitHub Pages. As additional reference, I’ve documented the process below.
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I Put CSS in My HTML and Nothing Exploded
When I first felt comfortable with front-end web development, I thought inline CSS was a filthy thing to do; something that could only be done in haste or from poor implementation. Thankfully, I’m a little wiser now and can understand that there is almost always a reason behind the implementation.
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My Domain is My Playground
Whenever I want to test or try something out, I do one of three things; I create a new pen on CodePen, push some files to a new Surge project, or I’ll try it out live on my personal site or blog. The last one in that list is my favourite thing to do.
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Jekyll Conf Lightning Talk
Recently I was asked by CloudCannon to record a lightning talk for Jekyll Conf. It was a great opportunity to contribute to the Jekyll community. You can watch all the talks from the day on YouTube.
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How to Create an Open Source Portfolio
One really useful aspect of GitHub repos is that they allow us to host static websites thanks to GitHub Pages. But did you know that you can dynamically display all your GitHub repos on your website as well? In this tutorial I’m going to show you a great little trick using repository metadata to create a portfolio of your open source projects.
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Could GitHub Make a CMS?
Following on from my previous article, I wanted to explore the idea of GitHub making a CMS. What would it be? How would it work? Why would they even do it?
To break down this hypothetical concept, I’m going to use the Five Ws, otherwise known as “Who, What, Where, When and Why?”.