Recently I have been doing a lot of work using REST-like APIs to add, update and delete JSON documents in a MongoDB database. I’ve refined the core of the latest Node.js app I wrote down into a framework that provides the endpoints needed to do CRUD operations.
Using Node.js, Express and the Spotify Web API to implement a server-side album search app.
After discussing an idea for a simple website with one of my design colleagues the other day I took it on myself to try and build a demo of the layout we were discussing. The idea seemed simple: a responsive grid with alternating coloured sections in a checker-board pattern. Sounds easy right…
I’ve been doing a lot of work with REST API services recently but needed a quick way of stubbing some of them out. Here is a simple way of doing it in PHP.
Want to know if it’s hotter or colder than this time last year? Well now there’s an app for that.
During a recent project - a web app for creating custom training shoe designs from the colours in your Instagram photos - I needed to reduce the total page download size substantially for delivery to mobiles. Find out how I used Canvas compositing to reduce image file sizes by over 80%.