Over the past few days I've been working on getting our JavaScript test results into Hudson to give us a truly integrated testing setup. This is how I did it.

I've tidied up and packaged the source for this very blog on github. You'll find it at http://github.com/carlmw/express-blog.

It's a pretty standard newbie attempt to get to grips with a new stack but it's pretty stable and thanks to node and express incredibly fast.

It's slightly overdue but I felt it was time to dust off the cob webs and give this place a little face lift.

First thing to go was Wordpress. Being a LAMP guy I initially planned to pick up another PHP CMS and start using that, but I'm tired of the usual suspects and decided to go with a fresh stack.

RequireJS is a JavaScript loader and module manager. It’s great for loading scripts concurrently and without blocking the page from rendering.

Frontal now supports a simple plugin architecture. Using the .register method it’s possible to mix functionality directly into frontal.

When a design has spent so long in photoshop that every pixel has been polished to perfection. When your design can’t be implemented without resorting to image maps it’s gone too far. When theres no real text on the page its not a web page anymore it’s a JPEG.

I’ve just pushed a new feature and some minor tweaks to the frontal project on github.

While working on the forthcoming redesign of the Beam website, FF DIN was made available for licensing with @font-face in WOFF format. It was also released on Typekit.

For posterity’s sake here are the slides from my talk today on scrappy prototypes. They likely make no sense out of context.

scrappy-prototypes.pdf

On and off for the past few months i’ve been playing with an idea for a lightweight JavaScript framework. I hate to use the term ‘framework’ but i can’t think of a better way to describe it. Perhaps this is a terrible approach to JavaScript development but it’s been fun to experiment.

I’m sitting by my gate ready to fly home from Austin after one absolutely fantastic week at SXSWi. Coming out here i wasn’t sure what to expect.

Its International Talk Like a Pirate Day tomorrow (September 19th) so to celebrate here’s a quick bookmarklet I put together.

Built on top of the awesome Talk like a Pirate translation ARRPI.

Drag the following link to your bookmarks and enjoy: TweetARRR!

The first post on my new journal, yay!

Ever since i lost relative precision through neglect to squatters i’ve been trying to get back on the horse and start a new site. Well after nearly two years and a couple of false starts, I’m finally here. Maybe this time i’ll actually have something worthwhile to prattle on about, but i guess we’ll see.