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Automated git deployments from Bitbucket Important: Bitbucket have changed how webhooks function, and the technique described in this post will no longer work without modification. One of my readers has created an updated version, and I recommend trying that instead. I no longer use this deployment method and won’t be updating my tutorial or answering comments, but I have left the comment section

A jQuery plugin boilerplate I created this boilerplate for a jQuery plugin I’m working on, and you can use it to kick start your own jQuery plugin development. The features of my boilerplate are: Plugin can be customised using options Setters/Getters for options Private and public methods Callback hooks Plugin instances can be destroyed The boilerplate Here is the bare bones, uncommented boilerpla

Configuring VirtualHosts in XAMPP on Mac A few weeks back I rejoined the “Cult of Mac” when I replaced my old Asus notebook with a MacBook Pro, and since then I’ve been busy settling into my new OS X workflow. I do all my development locally, so one of the first applications I installed was XAMPP, a cross platform Apache/MySQL/PHP stack. While I know that MAMP is very popular on Mac, I have been u

The first clearly recorded instance of a balloon carrying passengers used hot air to generate buoyancy and was built by the brothers Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier in Annonay, France. After experimenting with unmanned balloons and flights with animals, the first tethered balloon flight with humans on board took place on October 15, 1783. André-Jacques Garnerin carried out the first

Responsive elements that retain their aspect ratio Here is a quick tip for creating responsive elements that retain their aspect ratio as they scale. The problem In a fixed width layout it is simple to specify both the width and the height of an element: .rect { width: 800px; height: 400px; } When creating a responsive layout things get trickier, since (to the best of my knowledge) it isn’t possib