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Who Am I?

I'm a passionate 24 year old Irish Web Designer & Developer and (currently) a Project Manager who loves creating exciting new user interfaces and writing about topics that can help other web designers out there at the moment. Although I've been approached by Facebook, Microsoft and Google over the years, I enjoy working in smaller companies. If you're interested in speaking to me about contract work, please leave me a note on the site and I'll get back to you as soon as possible.

How Can I Become A Better Developer?

If you've come here (or any dev blog) hoping to learn a few tips and tricks, you're already well on your way to becoming a better developer.Expanding your knowledge through reading books, blogs and trial-and-error coding are some great steps to improving your knowledge. If you would like to read more on this topic, see my article called '10 Professional Tips For Designers and Developers' here.

HTML5 In 5 Minutes – A Screencast You Just Can’t Miss!

Hey guys. I recorded you a screencast on HTML5 over the weekend – I hope you like it!. It covers a lot of the core features HTML5 will bring including code samples for any material covered. Just click on the HTML5 thumbnail above to be taken to the HTML5 in under 5 minutes micro-site where you can play or download the screencast. I hope it comes in useful! Thanks – Addy.

Why HTML5 is a Game Changer and what it means for you.

Web Developers are commonly asked to create applications which stream video, display fluid animations, play music and integrate with Twitter and Facebook. In many cases if one wanted to achieve all of these things you had to leverage on a number of different technologies which probably included Flash, Flex or Silverlight.

This requirement to learn new languages and plugins can increase the time it takes to get a project out the door and the need for many different specialities can definitely increase the cost of getting something impressive done. HTML5 changes this – with support for high-quality animation, video and audio embedding as well as many other types of rich content, the future of the web may be arriving soon. Here’s what HTML5 will give you.

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