Latest blog posts

• 2025 - Looking forward

  1 January 2025

  Posted for personal accountability. Hopefully all of these tasks will be completed by December!

• 91 to 100 - #100DaysOfCode

  1 May 2022

  This is my tenth and final post in the #100daysofcode challenge series. On this page I will detail what I have covered during days 91 to 100.

• 81 to 90 - #100DaysOfCode

  24 April 2022

  This is my ninth post in the #100daysofcode challenge series. On this page I will detail what I have covered during days 81 to 90.

• 71 to 80 - #100DaysOfCode

  10 April 2022

  This is my eighth post in the #100daysofcode challenge series. On this page I will detail what I have covered during days 71 to 80.

• 61 to 70 - #100DaysOfCode

  5 April 2022

  This is my seventh post in the #100daysofcode challenge series. On this page I will detail what I have covered during days 61 to 70.

• 51 to 60 - #100DaysOfCode

  2 April 2022

  This is my sixth post in the #100daysofcode challenge series. On this page I will detail what I have covered during days 51 to 60.

• 41 to 50 - #100DaysOfCode

  13 March 2022

  This is my fifth post in the #100daysofcode challenge series. On this page I will detail what I have covered during days 41 to 50.

• 31 to 40 - #100DaysOfCode

  3 March 2022

  This is my fourth post in the #100daysofcode challenge series. On this page I will detail what I have covered during days 31 to 40.

• 21 to 30 - #100DaysOfCode

  3 March 2022

  This is my third post in the #100daysofcode challenge series. On this page I will detail what I have covered during days 21 to 30.

• 11 to 20 - #100DaysOfCode

  9 February 2022

  This is my second post in the #100daysofcode challenge series. On this page I will detail what I have covered during days 11 to 20.

• 1 to 10 - #100DaysOfCode

  1 February 2022

  After a recent parents meeting with my students. I found myself giving the same piece of advice over and over. If they want to develop their programming skills they must practice more often than the time I give them in class. It is similar to playing an instrument or learning a foreign language, small and regular practice will help to quickly develop skills in the long term.

• PenTesting and security research resources for beginners

  1 January 2021

  “The best computer scientists are lifelong learners”, this is a phrase my boss has repeated to me many times this academic year and it is something I agree with. So when I found myself with 3 weeks of vacation for our winter break I went searching for an area of computer science where I know I could improve that I needed to learn more about.

• Accessibility testing with ChromeLens

  11 July 2016

  Google’s Addy Osmani drew my attention to a very interesting Chrome extension today by the name of ChromeLens.

• Welcome to Jekyll

  8 July 2016

  And now for something completely different, only taking 4 commands to get up and running (assuming you have ruby and rubygems installed on your system of course).

• It begins

  28 January 2013

  Author’s note - kept for nostalgia